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STILL PHOTOGRAPHY

 

Click the image above or this link to view the prize-winning photos:

STILL CONTEST JUDGING HOSTED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE)

List of winners (text)
http://www.whnpa.org/contest/eyes2008/stills/textresults/

WHNPA press release (pdf)

 

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: JAHI CHIKWENDIU, THE WASHINGTON POST

POLITICAL PHOTO OF THE YEAR: STARING DOWN THE COMPETITION
JAY L. CLENDENIN, LOS ANGELES TIMES

 

 

2008 VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

WINNING VIDEO CLIPS (QUICKTIME) ARE ONLINE IN THE 2008 CONTEST

VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO EDITING)
Video contest judging hosted by National Geographic Channel, FEBRUARY 9 - 10

VIDEO CONTEST PRESS RELEASE

VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: MARK RABBAGE, BBC

PDF LIST OF VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY WINNERS

2008 VIDEO EDITING CONTEST

VIDEO EDITOR OF THE YEAR: CHRIS SHLEMON, ITN

PDF LIST OF VIDEO EDITING WINNERS

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NEW MEDIA CONTEST RESULTS    (final, updated Sunday 12:30 pm)

View the multimedia presentations online

PRESS RELEASE - WINNERS (PDF)

BEST USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY (NEW MEDIA)

First Place:

Struggle in Mississippi Delta:
African American farmers in the deep South struggle as major portions of federal
crop subsidies are given to large industrialized farms. Agricultural towns like
Shelby and Mound Bayou in Mississippi suffer from poverty, crime and high
unemployment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070619/GAL-07Jun19-78480/index.html

Producer: Whitney Shefte
Photo Editor: Whitney Shefte
Photographer: Carol Guzy

Second Place:

Abductions Hold Haiti Hostage
Despite the presence of thousands of U.N. troops and a new military offensive to
root out gangs, armed thugs still rule much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where many of
the 2 million residents live in tin or cinder-block shacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/022107/haiti/index.html

Producer: Dee Swann
Photo Editors: Dee Swann, Alexandra Garcia
Photography: Michel du Cille

Third Place:

For Them. By Them.
For six weeks, 30 teenagers, most of whom are from Southeast D.C., have worked
tirelessly on proposals for a $300,000 project to enhance their community.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070803/GAL-07Aug03-83470/index.html

Producer: Dee Swann
Photo Editor: Dee Swann, Tom Kennedy
Photographer: Carol Guzy

Award of Excellence:

The Lost Boys – Transforming Fort Dimanche
The boys warehoused at Fort Dimanche are the products of poverty, child abandonment,
rampant homelessness and an educational system that has failed to enroll 1 million
school-age children. A group using seed money from pop star Wyclef Jean hopes to
turn the children's prison into Haiti's first child rehabiliation center.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070302/GAL-07Mar02-66790/index.html

Additional Work by Michel du Cille / The Washington Post and Nelson Hsu and Lindsay
McCulough / washingtonpost.com
Producer: Nancy Donaldson – washingtonpost.com
Photography: Michel du Cille – The Washington Post
Photo Editing: Nancy Donaldson and Lindsay McCullough – washingtonpost.com
Design: Nelson Hsu – washingtonpost.com

Award of Excellence:

Fixing D.C.’s Schools: A History of Washington Education
Take a photographic journey through the history of D.C.'s schools: from the
inception of the school system to the tumultuous era of racial integration to the
numerous reform efforts of the present, the schools have long reflected changes in
the city and the nation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070607/GAL-07Jun07-76881/index.html

Producer: Whitney Shefte
Photo Editor: Whitney Shefte

 

Best Use of Photography and Audio

First Place:

In Kentucky's Teeth, Toll of Poverty and Neglect

In Kentucky bootleg denture-makers exist here for a reason: Kentucky has the highest
proportion of adults under 65 without teeth and about half of the residents lack
dental insurance. "People need teeth, but they can't afford to go to dentists for
dentures," said one bootlegger who has seen the shame of a 14-year-old girl who
would not lift her head because she had lost most of her teeth from malnutrition,
and the do-it-yourself pride of an elderly mountain man who, unable to afford a
dentist, pulled his own infected teeth with a pair of pliers.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/21/us/20071224_KENTUCKY_FEATURE.html

Producers: Stephen Crowley and Thomas Lin
Picture and audio editing: Stephen Crowley
Audio and Photography: Stephen Crowley

Second Place:

A Mexican Football Team Tackles Misperceptions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2007/10/13/GA2007101300792.html

A high school team crosses the border seeking to validate Mexican football by
challenging a formidable opponent in Texas.

Producer: Alexandra Garcia
Audio, Audio Editing, Photo Editing: Alexandra Garcia
Photography: Toni L. Sandys

Third Place:

Fair Weather Fun

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/interactives/ohiofairs/index.html

Fairs and festivals bring together communities too often too busy to share in
experiences. This series of audio slideshows puts a fresh face on the fun of a
little friendly competition.

Producer: Alexandra Garcia
Audio and Photo Editing: Alexandra Garcia & Sarah L. Voisin
Photography: Sarah L. Voisin | Audio Reporting: Sarah Hollander & Sarah L. Voisin.

Award of Excellence:

Why We Compete | Adrenaline
Jumpers take part in the 2007 Bridge Day on the New River Gorge Bridge in
Fayetteville, W.Va.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/why-we-compete/2007/11/adrenaline.html

Producer: Whitney Shefte
Photo Editor: Whitney Shefte, Preston Keres
Photographer: Preston Keres, Whitney Shefte
Audio Reporter: Whitney Shefte, Preston Keres
Audio Editor: Whitney Shefte, Preston

Award of Excellence:

Burning Man
What type of religious experience would you expect at a festival dedicated to
radical self-reliance and carnal pleasure, revolving around rituals described as
pagan? Welcome to Burning Man, where you can talk to God from a phone booth and
listen to the gospel choir while watching a temple burn.

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/video/burningman3/

Producer: Allison Shelley

Best Use of Photography and Audio (Narrated)

First Place:

‘Continuous War’: Cluster Bombs in South Lebanon
Cluster bomblets may look like toys – small cups of heavy metal with a fold of
ribbon dangling from each bomblet’s detonator – but their affects are leaving a far
more destructive legacy, particularly among civilians in southern Lebanon, which was
hit hard during the summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/lebcbomb/

Producer: Nancy Donaldson
Photo Editor, Audio Editor: Nancy Donaldson
Photographer, Audio Reporter: Jahi Chikwendiu

Second Place:

Windfarms

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2007/nov/texas/slideshow/index.html

A look at how windpower was introduced to a small town in Texas by a
former cotton farmer.

Reporter: John Burnett
Photographer: Brian Connelly for NPR
Audio producer: Vikki Valentine
Slideshow producer: Coburn Dukehart

Third Place:

West Side Story:

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2007/sep/west_side_story/slideshow/index.html

A look back in sounds and photos to mark the 50th anniversary of "West
Side Story."

Reporter and audio producer: Jeff Lunden
Slideshow producer: Trey Graham
Mix engineers: Josh Rogosin, Neal Rauch
Photo researchers: Frannie Kelley, Patrick Jarenwattananon
Photo editor: Coburn Dukehart

 

Award of Excellence:

An IED Attack Unfolds
Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce recounts an encounter with a roadside bomb
while embedded in Baqubah, Iraq. The June 2004 attack seriously injured two soldiers
who were traveling in an unarmored Humvee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2007/09/30/GA2007093001255.html

Producer: Whitney Shefte
Photo Editor: Whitney Shefte
Audio Editor: Whitney Shefte
Audio Reporter: Whitney Shefte
Photographer: Andrea Bruce

 

Best Multimedia Package

First Place:

Crisis in Darfur Expands

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/chad/

Eastern Chad has become a temporary home for hundreds of thousands of Sudanese
fleeing violence in the Darfur region. Their plight has become intertwined with
110,000 Chadians who have also become subject to banditry and violence, imperiling
international food and medical aid efforts.

Project by Travis Fox and Brian Cordyack.

Second Place:

Antarctica

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/science/interactives/antarctica/index.html

The frozen landscape, dry valleys and active volcanoes that make up Antarctica
provide a living laboratory for scientific study and a wondrous journey for those
traveling to the ends of the Earth. Experience the continent with this special
report.

Project by Lindsay McCullough, George Steinmetz, Adam Kipple, Amar Bakshi, and Alicia
Cypress

Third Place:

Fixing D.C. Schools

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/interactives/dcschools/

For decades, the District's public schools have resisted scores of reform plans and
multiple changes in leadership to remain among the most troubled in the nation. As
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty orchestrates the latest attempt to fix the schools, The Post
is examining why the problems have been so difficult to solve.

Project by Liz Heron, Nelson Hsu, Adrian Holovaty, Nancy Donaldson, Dee Swann and
Ben de la Cruz

Award of Excellence

onBeing

http://specials.washingtonpost.com/onbeing/

onBeing is a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one
another a little better. What you’ll find here is a series of videos that takes you
into the musings, passions, histories and quirks of all sorts of people. The essence
of who they are, who we are.

Project by Jennifer Crandall, Jesse Foltz, Rob Curly, Deryck Hodge, Tom Kennedy,
Ju-Don Roberts and Liz Spayd.

 

 

 

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2007 STILL PHOTOGRAPHY RESULTS

AWARD-WINNING IMAGES  •  PRESS RELEASE (PDF) • CONTEST RESULTS

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - Michael Robinson Chavez, the Washington Post

CLICK IMAGE BELOW TO LAUNCH FLASH SLIDESHOW OF THIS YEAR'S PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON CHAVEZ

POLITICAL PHOTO OF THE YEAR
CHIP SOMODEVILLA, GETTY IMAGES, THE FUTURE SPEAKER SPEAKS

VIEW THE AWARD-WINNING IMAGES  •  PRESS RELEASE (PDF) • CONTEST RESULTS

2007 TV CONTEST

QUICKTIME VIDEO CLIPS of the winning entries are now online.

Video Photographer of the Year is Dai Baker, ITN

Video Editor of the Year is Pierre Kattar, washingtonpost.com

 

PRESS RELEASE

List of winning entries in this year's Video Photography Contest

List of winning entries in this year's Video Editing Contest

The WHNPA acknowledges the generous support of the following organizations: