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Filipina photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales among 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalists
Hannah Reyes Morales is a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist!
The Filipina photojournalist and New York Times contributor is one of only two finalists in the Feature Photography category. According to the award-giving body, she was selected for her "creative series of photographs documenting a 'youthquake'" occurring in Africa, where, by 2050, the continent will account for one-quarter of the world's population and one-third of its young people."
Morales is up against fellow New York Times contributor Nanna Heitmann, who is nominated “for poignant photographs, chronicling unprecedented masses of migrants and their arduous journey north from Colombia to the border of the United States.”
On Instagram, Morales recalled how her editors called her on Sunday to tell her 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, tagging the writer Declan Walsh.
Thanking her subjects, 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.
In 2021, Morales was among the Nobel Peace Prize photographers, where she shed light on the work of laureates Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov in a photo exhibit that happened on December 11 in Oslo, Norway.
— Jade Veronique Yap/LA, GMA Integrated News
