Category: Contests
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RFK Center Announces Winners of 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
From Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights: Domestic Photography Winner: “Too Young to Die” by Carlos Javier Ortiz, freelancer: Featured in Ebony Magazine, this series examines the epidemic of gun violence which not only plagues lower-income, urban neighborhoods, but youth from all walks of American life. Ortiz’ artistry and sensitivity delivers a…
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Robert Adams wins 2009 Hasselblad Award – Photo-Eye
CLICK NOTE: At first I thought that photo of the award hand-off is so awful… I’d better find something better. Then I thought, no, it’s so bad it’s awesome! From photo-eye: More info can be found on the Hasselblad Foundation website including the transcript from the live chat with Robert Adams that took place earlier…
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Webby Nominees 2009
From Webby Nominees: With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy…
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DARIUS HIMES » CENTER announces winners
From DARIUS HIMES » CENTER announces winners: This year, the winner of the Santa Fe Prize is Hiroyo Kaneko Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Editing – Single-page News
From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners: 1st Place, Single-page News The Virginian-Pilot, Martin Smith-Rodden Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year – Brad Loper
From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners: 1st Place, Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year – INDIVIDUAL The Dallas Morning News, Brad Loper Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Editing – Newspaper Sports Winners
From NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 Web Site Winners: 1st Place, Newspaper Sports project Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Photojournalist of the Year (large markets)
Walter Astrada/TIME Magazine Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Photojournalist of the Year (smaller markets)
James Gregg/Arizona Daily Star Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Best Published Picture Story (smaller markets)
Richard Jones/sinopix/sinopix- Fifteen year-old Lou Li poses. Lou Li spent 8 months forcibly married to a farmer in Yunnan, West China. Lou Li was tricked away from her home and sold to the farmer for 6,500 rnb in September 2006 and escaped in April 2007. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Best Published Picture Story (large markets)
Melissa Lyttle/St. Petersburg Times- For the first seven years of her life, Danielle never saw the sun, felt the wind or tasted solid food. She was kept in a closet in a Plant City apartment, cloistered in darkness, left in a dirty diaper, fed only with a bottle. “She was a ferral child,” said Carolyn…
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Cliff Edom’s ‘New America Award’
Carl Kiilsgaard/Western Kentucky University – The White family has lived outside of Whitesburg, Ky., for generations. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – General News
CLICK NOTE: Great to see this amazing shot get a first place. Only an award of excellence from POYi? Come on! photo by Eric Kayne/Houston Chronicle Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (large markets)
Carol Guzy/The Washington Post- “Every minute, every hour, pregnant women die in Sierra Leone,” says Amadu Sesay, brother of Jemelleh Saccoh who arrived with her aunt at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown with pregnancy complications for an emergency Caesarean section. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – International News Picture Story, HM
Jerome Delay/Associated Press- Fighting between rebels and the government has left tens of thousands of refugees desperate for international aid in Congo. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – International News Picture Story
Walter Astrada/AFP Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – News Portrait and Personality
Mickey Rourke by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Enterprise Picture Story (smaller markets)
Ramin Rahimian/Freelance- In the early morning of October 20, 2006, six days before his 21st birthday, the Humvee Iraqi translator Diyar al-Bayati was riding in during a routine patrol came under attack by a roadside bomb and an ambush. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing
Jenn Ackerman- TRAPPED: The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go. This project goes inside…