Freelance photojournalist Leroy Woodson died in the Paris hospital La Salpetrière on February 12, 2015. He was 70.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/paris-photojournalist-leroy-woodson-70
Gerd Ludwig has won the 2015 POYi Best Photo Book of the Year honors for The Long Shadow of Chernobyl, his book about the lingering environmental, social, and economic consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The award, part of the Reportage Division of the POYi competition, was announced on the POYi web site.