Alan Spearman’s “Memphis Poverty” Wins NPPA’s Best Use Of Multimedia

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Alan Spearman’s “Memphis Poverty” Wins NPPA’s Best Use Of Multimedia

“Memphis Poverty: What Obama Didn’t See” by Alan Spearman and The Commercial Appeal has won Best Use Of Multimedia in NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism contest, judges at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication announced today. The judges also relea

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/60194

Judges Nancy Andrews, Zach Wise, and Jonathan Quilter said “Memphis Poverty masterfully tells an important American story in a non-traditional way, bypassing the literal translation of poverty to strike the soul. The artful blend of documentary moments, poetry, music, cinematic shooting and editing craftsmanship moves our art of storytelling forward in a dramatic way. It was the best use of multimedia in the completion and helps establish a tone for how we might approach complex stories in the future.”