Hannah Reyes Morales, Filipina photojournalist and New York Times contributor, is one of only two finalists in the Feature Photography category of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes.
Morales was selected for her “creative series of photographs documenting a ‘youthquake'” occurring in Africa, according to the award-giving body.
The other finalist is Morales’s colleague, fellow New York Times contributor Nanna Heitmann. She is nominated “for poignant photographs, chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States.”
In a post on Instagram, Morales recalled how she felt when her editors told her about the news.
“I’m still in a daze since that call, overwhelmed and grateful for the chance to have worked on this story,” she said.
Morales said the assignment “was not the easiest.”
“But those we photographed helped us understand, bit by bit, what it means to be young and reshaping Africa, and the world,” she said.
The Pulitzer Prizes are prestigious awards in journalism, literature, drama, and music composition, established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher. They were first awarded in 1917 and are administered by Columbia University in New York City.