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From Kenyan violence to Obama’s jubilant campaign, view our gallery of extraordinary photos that won some of journalism's top honors this week, the Pulitzer and Overseas Press Club prizes.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner for Breaking News Photography
Patrick Farrell
Miami Herald / Newscom

Awarded for his provocative, impeccably composed images of despair after Hurricane Ike and other lethal storms caused a humanitarian disaster in Haiti.


A frustrated woman in flooded Gonaives, Haiti, tries cleaning clothes and dishes in the muddy water September 4, 2008, just days after Tropical Storm Hannah hit the country.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner for Breaking News Photography
Patrick Farrell
Miami Herald / Newscom

The lifeless body of 5-year-old Tamasha Jean, the daughter of Frantz Samedi, is loaded onto a pickup truck in Cabaret, Haiti, September 7, 2008, along with bodies of other children that died in the floods caused by Hurricane Ike.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner for Breaking News Photography
Patrick Farrell
Miami Herald / Newscom

A young boy rescues a beat-up stroller September 4, 2008, near his family's flooded home in Gonaives, Haiti, days after Tropical Storm Hannah hit the country.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography
Damon Winter
The New York Times

Awarded for his memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.


Barack Obama campaigning during a rainstorm in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 28, 2008.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography
Damon Winter
The New York Times

Barack Obama was joined by his family on stage during a campaign rally in Springfield, Missouri on November 1, 2008.

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Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Photography
Damon Winter
The New York Times

Supporters cheered and cried as CNN announced Barack Obama as the projected winner of the presidential election at Grant Park in Chicago on November 4, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Shaul Schwarz
Getty Images for Newsweek

Awarded for the best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.


A resident of the Mathare slum of Nairobi is beaten by Kenyan police on January 17, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Shaul Schwarz
Getty Images for Newsweek

A Kenyan man lays on the ground, surrounded by riot police, during the second day of attempts to disperse renewed protests by supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga, in the Kibera slums on January 17, 2008 in Nairobi.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Shaul Schwarz
Getty Images for Newsweek

In Nairobi, a supporter of Kenya's opposition leader demonstrates in renewed protests in the Kibera slums on January 17, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The Olivier Rebbot Award
Stephanie Sinclair
VII / The New York Times Magazine

Awarded for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books.


Midwives wait for their next circumcision patients in Bandung, Indonesia, on April 23, 2006. The families of 248 girls were given money to have their children circumcised (during which a small piece of genitals is removed) in a mass circumcision celebration timed to honor the Prophet Mohammed's birthday. The World Health Organization has deemed the ritual unnecessary and condemns such practices.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The Olivier Rebbot Award
Stephanie Sinclair
VII / The New York Times Magazine

A young girl hesitates as she is prepared to be circumcised in Bandung, Indonesia, on April 23, 2006.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The Olivier Rebbot Award
Stephanie Sinclair
VII / The New York Times Magazine

A young girl sits with her mother after her circumcision in Bandung, Indonesia, on April 23, 2006.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The John Faber Award
Simon Maina
AFP / Getty Images

Awarded for best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services.


A man jumps on a burnt vehicle after he and other supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga set barricades on fire on a road in the Kibera slum of Nairobi on January 16, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The John Faber Award
Walter Astrada
AFP / Getty Images

One of eight looters who were trying to vandalize a nearby store reacts after he was caught and beaten up by private guards in a street of Nakuru on January 26, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The John Faber Award
Tony Karumba
AFP / Getty Images

A Kenyan man leads his children away from his neighborhood as he flees violence during disturbances in the streets of the Mathare slum in Nairobi on January 1, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The John Faber Award
Roberto Schmidt
AFP / Getty Images

A girl runs past a store reportedly owned by a member of the Kikuyu tribe and set on fire by members of the Luo tribe during ethnic clashes in the Githima slum of Nakuru on January 26, 2008.

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Overseas Press Club Winner of The John Faber Award
Yasuyoshi Chiba
AFP / Getty Images

Armed with bows and arrows, Massai warriors clash with members of the Kalenjin tribe in the Kapune hill on March 1, 2008.

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