The humanitarian emergency in the Mediterranean in the middle of the 2016 Pulitzer for photography

The refugee crisis in the Mediterranean is an issue that unfortunately continues to fill the news pages. It is easy to imagine that some of the journalistic works of the most important photo mold the year there are many who have told just this humanitarian emergency.

I had already seen as the World Press Photo had triumphed a shot that had immortalized their way across the border to some migrants. Even the Pulitzer prizes have followed the same path and the two winning works in photographic categories went to photographers of the New York Times Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter in the section and in the Breaking News Photography Photography Staff to Thomson Reuters team , which had treated the same theme in their shots.

The shots are united by different sections and tell many phases of the difficult path of people who have fled their country. The overcrowded boats, fathers who are trying to rescue the children after the vehicle overturning, the march to the borders of Europe, the rejections of the police, border crossings of entire families under the barbed wire and, unfortunately, even the photos of those who do not have it done and are now dead bodies from the sea on the beaches of the Greek islands.

In the field of photography it was also awarded the Jessica Rinaldi Boston Globe work in Feature Photography section for the story in pictures of the difficult life of an American child of Maine, in search of her way after suffering violence by close family members.

See all pictures HERE and HERE.