National Geographic Magazine has become the first magazine to win the top editing award in the Pictures of the Year International Competition.
Category: Photojournalism
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National Geographic Wins Top Editing Award in POYi Contest
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We're Just Sayin: Closing the Circle
by David BurnettWe had been lingering on the edge of battle in this small village when a droning noise came out of the distance. Two A-1 Skyraider planes, with Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) markings started circling Trang Bang. After a couple of passes they began diving towards the village. I had finished the first roll of film in my Leica III, and had started to reload. The planes came in, lumbering along as they do, and dropped big canisters of napalm. Moments later there was a fiery explosion, and a large fireball erupted on the edge of the village near a pagoda, followed by billows of dark smoke. I was still struggling to slide the Tri-x into my Leica, with one eye watching the planes and one on the camera. The planes made a couple of passes, the film still resisting to go into that narrow loading slot on the Leica. Then, all of a sudden everything changed.
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Photographer Lynn T. (Jug) Spence | PICTURES | STLtoday
This photo of Mike Shannon tagging out Bill Sudakis is arguably the most famous photo taken by any Post-Dispatch photographer. Everyone knows it as the “Out, Safe” photo.
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Stephanie Sinclair Joins VII Photo
VII, the exclusive photojournalism co-op that caps its membership at 14, has just admitted its 12th member: Stephanie Sinclair.
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Spotlight: 'Intended Consequences' by Jonathan Torgovnik (Conscientious)
“An estimated 20,000 children were born of rapes that occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Fifteen years later, the mothers of these children still face enormous challenges, not least of which is the stigma of bearing and raising a child fathered by a Hutu militiaman. Over the past three years, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik has made repeated visits to Rwanda to document the stories of these women.
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Bruce Haley Pictures – Tao of War Photography
Note: I’ve had some people ask me to put this on the website, so here it is… please keep in mind that this was written over a decade ago, so some of it is a bit dated..
B.H.’s Tao of War Photography
subtitled: “Never Ride an Asian Elephant While Wearing Shorts”
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Mostly True: Asking Versus Answering
When it comes to editorial photojournalism there are two basic styles of photography, newspaper and magazine.
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