Massoud Hossaini and Craig F. Walker Win 2012 Pulitzer Prizes Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize on Monday afternoon for "Welcome Home: The Story of Scott Ostrom," which won in the feature category. And Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse won the 2012 prize for breaking news photography for his coverage of a bloody attack in Afghanistan - his third major award for the image. The two photographers made their prize-winning photographs at home - Denver for Mr. Walker and Kabul, Afghanistan, for Mr. Hossaini. The Pulitzer Prize The Winning Photos Both Craig Walker and Massoud Hossaini have been featured on Lens. Mr. Walker, who won his first Pulitzer in 2010, also received the Newspaper Photographer of the Year award this year in the Pictures of the Year International contest. On Monday, as he did when he spoke to Lens about POYi, Mr. Walker held his infant son in his arms as he talked over the phone about the announcement, which was made Monday afternoon by Columbia University. This time, he stood in the newsroom of The Denver Post alongside Mr. Ostrom, the subject of the work. "Scott's story is really important to our country," Mr. Walker said. We will be hearing a lot of stories like Scott's for a long time, I think. It's important to know what our veterans were going through. Hopefully the story will get to more people now. Mr. Hossaini - who spoke to Lens the day after he photographed a young Shiite woman screaming in the midst of a bloody scene in Kabul - has also been awarded first prize in spot news in the Pictures of the Year International contest for and second prize for spot news from World Press Photo, both for the same photograph. The image, and a variation, made the front pages of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post on Dec. 7. That day, Lens detailed the horror Mr. Hossaini faced at the scene. That day, he said, he couldn't stop crying. "Women were asking me, "Help, help, help,"" Mr. Hossaini said. I couldn't. I was recording and I was taking pictures. One of the women who was holding a baby, called out for help - her other child had died. Another man lifted the child from the ground. But blood was pouring from its head. The man placed the child back on the ground and walked away. As Mr. Hossaini photographed, he realized he was weeping. When he looked down, he realized how badly his own hand was bleeding. He wrapped it with the cleanest piece of material he could find. Also recognized by the Pulitzer Board in the breaking news category were Carolyn Cole and Brian van der Brug of The Los Angeles Times for their photography from Japan, as well as John Moore and Peter Macdiarmid for their work from the Arab Spring. Chris Hondros of Getty, who died while on assignment in Libya, was also nominated for the prize alongside his colleagues. In the feature category, finalists included David Guttenfelder, Ng Han Guan and Rafael Wober of The Associated Press, who were nominated for their photographs of daily life in North Korea, and Francine Orr of The Los Angeles Times, who was nominated for her work on autism. When Mr. Walker won a Pulitzer two years ago, he received the award for feature photography for the series "Ian Fisher: American Soldier," which followed Mr. Fisher from high school to basic training to a yearlong stint in Iraq, and back home. This year, he stayed close to home, in the Denver area. Standing in Denver with Mr. Walker, Mr. Ostrom, now 27, spoke of Mr. Walker's empathy. His ability to listen, he said, was unlike that of most people. "To anyone who's gone through combat trauma, trying to adjust to a society where violence and aggression doesn't work for you anymore," Mr. Ostrom said, "this is a story that is like looking into a mirror."