The photojournalism award, which honors John Stanmeyer’s photographs in the “Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria also names Senior Editor David Griffin, Deputy Director Susan A. Smith, Design Director David C. Whitmore and Senior Photo Editor Sarah Leen. The article ran in the July 2007 NGM.
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Clearly I should already have known who Vanessa Winship is. I mean, she won the first World Press Photo award ever given in the arts category; she’s exhibited at Visa pour l’Image, Les Recontres d’Arles, and the Leica Gallery; oh, and did I mention…she makes beautiful, beautiful images.
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of it Fellowship grants for 2008. Among the 190 awards, seven went to photographers
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Last night at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Manhattan, the Overseas Press Club handed out its awards for journalism from abroad. The OPC awards include four very coveted photojournalism prizes.
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Tonight senior staff photojournalist John B. Moore of Getty Images is being presented with the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal award from the Overseas Press Club of America at the organization’s sixty-ninth annual awards dinner in Manhattan.
The Capa award is given by the OPC in recognition of the “best published photographic reporting from abroad, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” It honors the legacy of the great war photographer Robert Capa of Magnum Photos.
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The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth.
The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered the fastest growing metropolis in the world.
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Edmonton Sun photo editor Tom Braid couldn’t be prouder of his staff.
“I’m just proud to be part of the team,” Braid said yesterday after Sun shooters walked off with an armload of hardware at the News Photographers Association of Canada’s second annual national pictures of the year awards in Vancouver.
Jason Franson won first place in Feature/Enterprise category for his entry entitled “Swinging soldier.” Colleague Darryl Dyck placed second in the category with “Trees and skaters” and Tim Smith earned honourable mention for “Swimmer.”
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Chris Detrick’s photograph of a Pepperdine University basketball player gouging the eyes of an opponent, won top honors in the Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest.
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Bryan Patrick picked up another Photographer of the Year trophy the first weekend in April, and a few days later The Bee’s front page reminded us why.
Patrick’s photos from the Olympic torch relay and protests in San Francisco on April 9 stood out as they often do: for storytelling and technical excellence, but even more for showing the news as you would have seen it had you been on the scene.
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Like much of the journalism we do, the St. Pierre project required that members of the community trust in our ability to tell an important human story. As we at the Monitor celebrate this historic moment for the newspaper, we also recognize our debt to the spirit of Carolynne St. Pierre and to Rich and his family. They have our deepest gratitude.
Gannaway’s winning Pulitzer entry included 19 of the photographs we published last year. The photos are candid, beautiful, intimate, heart-wrenching and sensitive. Five are reprinted in today’s paper, and readers can see a multimedia presentation of the project and read Conaboy’s fine stories at concordmonitor.com. The photo entry sent to the Pulitzer Prize board is also available on the site.
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The Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Individual) is Brad Loper of The Dallas Morning News. Second place is Mary Cooney of the Los Angeles Times, and third place is Dan Habib of The Concord Monitor. Honorable Mentions were awarded to Janet Reeves of The Rocky Mountain News, and to Mark Edelson of The Palm Beach Post.
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Congrats to Bryan Patrick for winning the San Francisco Bay Area Photographers Association photog of the year award. Well deserved.
The Bee put up a gallery of his portfolio
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A photojournalist from the 1st Combat Camera Squadron here has been recognized as the best in the Department of Defense.
Staff Sgt. Stacy Pearsall was named Military Photographer of the Year. She received the honor against more than 1,700 entries submitted by her peers from all branches of the U.S. military worldwide.
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Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness.
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Photo by Adrees Latif of Reuters. A wounded Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai, lay before a Burmese soldier yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar, as troops attacked protesters. Mr. Nagai later died. Published September 28, 2007.
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Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune and Jenn Ackerman, a graduate student at Ohio University, won top honors as 2008 Southern Photographer of the Year and 2008 Southern Student Photographer of the Year, respectively, this weekend. Strazzante also won Best of Show with his diptychs entitled “Echoes from the Past” pairing his coverage of a disappearing family farm shot earlier this decade and new homeowners on the same land shot in 2007. The winners were officially announced today by yours truly on the closing day of the Southern Short Course in News Photography in Charlotte, N.C.
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John Moore of Getty Images was picked as the NPPA 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition’s Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets) today at the end of the final round of judging in this year’s contest at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
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Judges at NPPA’s 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute today picked winners in the categories International News Picture Story, Enterprise Picture Story (Smaller and Larger Markets), Best Published Picture Story (Smaller and Larger Markets), and in the new category Investigative Issue Picture Story.
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The Scotsman’s Ian Rutherford has been named photographer of the year for a record fourth time.
Ian picked up the prestigious gong at the annual First ScotRail Press Photography Awards in Glasgow last night.
His winning portfolio included shots of troops from the Royal Regiment of Scotland returning from Iraq, the Open Golf and the Highland Open surfing competition. His previous successes came in 1994, 1997 and 1998.
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