POYi Issues Statement On Paolo Pellegrin’s Pictures, Affirm Award

The Pictures of the Year International director has issued a statement today addressing the Paolo Pellegrin photography and caption controversy, waiting until last night to issue their findings after POYi finished announcing all of their category winners

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/39467

Today a statement from POYi says, “The spirit of Pictures of the Year International is to honor photojournalists and celebrate their outstanding documentary photography. We do not probe for reasons to disqualify work.”