The New York Times and Reuters shared the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in the news photography category with a series of photographs depicting the journey of refugees to the promised land of Europe.
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| 150 migrants on a boat docked near the village of Skala, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 16, 2015. They wanted to return to mainland Turkey but were apprehended in Turkish waters. The photo was taken by Sergey Ponomarev. Photo: New York Times |
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| A Syrian refugee hugs her two children as she attempts to disembark from a boat bound for the Greek island of Lesbos. They had traveled a long distance from Türkiye across the Aegean Sea. The photo, taken by Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis on September 24, 2015, was also captured by Reuters. |
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| Ahmad Majid (in a blue t-shirt, in the middle) and his children and younger brother Farid Majid (in a green sweater) are asleep on a bus. They, along with dozens of other refugee families, left Budapest, Hungary, for Vienna, Austria. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, risk their lives leaving their homes, adrift on crowded boats, trains, and buses to illegally immigrate to Western Europe and Scandinavia. The photo was taken by Mauricio Lima on September 5, 2015. Photo: New York Times |
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| Slovenian riot police escort illegal migrants to a registration camp outside Dobova on October 22, 2015. Small Balkan nations have seen record numbers of European immigrants, and authorities are struggling to manage the refugee flow. (Photo: New York Times) |
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| A man tries to protect his child as police crack down on hundreds of migrants and fire tear gas at the Horgos border in Serbia, bordering Hungary. The photo was taken by Sergey Ponomarev on September 16, 2015. (Photo: New York Times) |
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| Migrants and refugees plead with Macedonian police to allow them to cross the border into Macedonia as they stand in the Greek village of Idomeni in torrential rain. Photo taken on September 10, 2015. Photo: Reuters |
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| Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Moroccan, Algerian, and Somali refugees scramble for water, blankets, and clothing in Idomeni, Greece, on November 28, 2015. This was their tenth day living in makeshift shelters. They were also unable to continue their journey to Macedonia, a destination only for refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. (Photo: New York Times) |
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| A Syrian man hugs his daughter and walks toward the Greek-Macedonian border in heavy rain on September 10, 2015. Photo: Reuters |
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| A refugee family from Syria warms themselves around a fire while others line up to register at a reception camp in Gevgelija, Macedonia, on November 21, 2015. Photo: New York Times |
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| Hundreds of migrants from Türkiye celebrated their arrival on the Greek island of Lesbos after a long journey battling rough seas and strong winds. Fearing their boat would capsize, some jumped into the freezing water to swim to shore. Photo by Tyler Hicks. Image: New York Times |
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The body of a refugee washed ashore on the island of Lesbos.
of Greece. Photographer Mauricio Lima took this photo on November 1, 2015. Photo: New York Times |
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| Laith Majid, a refugee from Iraq, broke down in tears as he and his daughter and son arrived safely on the Greek island of Kos after a perilous journey in a flimsy rubber boat. Photographer Daniel Etter captured this moment on August 15, 2015. Photo: New York Times |
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| A migrant family is holed up on the railway tracks at Bicske train station to avoid being taken to a refugee camp by Hungarian police. Hungary is one of the hotspots of the immigration crisis weighing on the "old continent," as refugees see it as a gateway to Western Europe. Photo: Reuters |
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| A boat carrying Syrian refugees drifts in the Aegean Sea between Türkiye and Greece after its engine failed. This photo was taken by reporter Yannis Behrakis on August 11, 2015. Photo: Reuters |
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| Life jackets, tires, and deflated rubber boats belonging to migrants are piled up on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on November 7, 2015. Photo: New York Times |
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