A full list of winners can be found on the BOP web site.
Photographer Andrew McConnell of Panos Pictures won Best of Show in NPPA's 2011 Best of Photojournalism contest, organizers announced yesterday. Damon Winter of The New York Times won Large Market Photojournalist of the Year Honors. Michael Holahan of the Augusta Chronicle won Small-Market Photojournalist of the Year, and freelance photojournalist Justin Maxon won the Cliff Edom "New America Award."
McConnell's Best of Show entry depicted a cellist practicing behind a fence, amid the activity and squalor of a neighborhood in Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo. The image also won first place in The Art of Entertainment category.
Winter's portfolio featured his coverage of the Haiti earthquake and the war in Afghanistan and it "exemplified excellence in diversity, storytelling, and creativity," said juror Smiley Pool, according to NPPA's report on the competition.
Holahan's portfolio included a variety of community photojournalism subjects, all in black and white. Juror Sherman Williams called the work "strong in both technique and quality."
Maxon won the Cliff Edom Award for his long-term project about the struggle for survival in Chester, PA, a city near Philadelphia that has been hard hit by crime and a lack of economic opportunity.
Photographer Andrew McConnell of Panos Pictures won Best of Show in NPPA's 2011 Best of Photojournalism contest, organizers announced yesterday. Damon Winter of The New York Times won Large Market Photojournalist of the Year Honors. Michael Holahan of the Augusta Chronicle won Small-Market Photojournalist of the Year, and freelance photojournalist Justin Maxon won the Cliff Edom "New America Award."
McConnell's Best of Show entry depicted a cellist practicing behind a fence, amid the activity and squalor of a neighborhood in Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo. The image also won first place in The Art of Entertainment category.
Winter's portfolio featured his coverage of the Haiti earthquake and the war in Afghanistan and it "exemplified excellence in diversity, storytelling, and creativity," said juror Smiley Pool, according to NPPA's report on the competition.
Holahan's portfolio included a variety of community photojournalism subjects, all in black and white. Juror Sherman Williams called the work "strong in both technique and quality."
Maxon won the Cliff Edom Award for his long-term project about the struggle for survival in Chester, PA, a city near Philadelphia that has been hard hit by crime and a lack of economic opportunity.