The Pulitzer committee called the photographic work by winners of 2016’s Pulitzer Prizes as pictures that stunned the world. The photographs frame moments ranging from the refugee crisis to slave labour in Indonesia, each moment articulated perfectly through the lens of a camera. 

Here are 14 of the prize winning photographs:

1. Photo by Sergey Ponomarev

A small boat filled with migrants coming ashore after making the crossing from Turkey, near the village of Skala, on Lesbos island in Greece, shot on November 16, 2015.

2. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi

Strider Wolf from ‘Photos of a boy who strives to find his footing after being abused.’

3. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi

Strider Wolf from ‘Photos of a boy who strives to find his footing after being abused.’

4. Photo by Jessica Rinaldi

Strider Wolf from ‘Photos of a boy who strives to find his footing after being abused.’

5. Photo by Dita Alangkara

Thai and Burmese fishing boat slave workers sitting behind bars inside a cell at the compound of a fishing company in Benjina, Indonesia.

6. Photo by Joan Marcusshowing

Lin-Manuel Miranda, foreground, with the cast during a performance of Hamilton, in New York.

7. Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe

A former slave fisherman Myint Naing and his mother, Khin Than, cry as they are reunited after 22 years at their village in Mon State, Myanmar.

8. Photo by Stoyan Nenov

A policeman trying to stop a migrant from boarding a train at Gevgelija train station in Macedonia, close to the border with Greece on August 15, 2015.

9. Photo by Yannis Behrakis

A Syrian refugee holding onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos.

10. Photo by Laszlo Balogh

Immigrants being detained by Hungarian police.

11. Photo by Yannis Behrakis

A boat full of Syrian refugees in the Aegean Sea after its motor broke down.

12. Photo by Bernadett Szabo

Syrian migrants crossing under a fence to enter Hungary at the border with Serbia.

13. Photo by Srdjan Zivulovic

Migrants making way through the outskirts of Brezice, Slovenia.

14. Photo by Yannis Behrakis

A Syrian refugee with his daughter, walking towards Greece’s border with Macedonia.

So this is what it means to win a Pulitzer.