Portrait/Personality
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First Place - Tyrone Turner, WAMU
Second Place - Tyrone Turner, WAMU
Third Place - Jim Watson, AFP
Award of Excellence - Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Gabriella Demczuk, Freelance for The New York Times Magazine
Pictorial
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First Place - Tasos Katopodis, Freelance for Getty Images
Second Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Third Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Award of Excellence - John McDonnell, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Feature
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First Place - Jonathan Ernst, Reuters
Second Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Third Place - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP
Award of Excellence - Alexander Lourie, Redux Pictures
Award of Excellence - Patrick Smith, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Stephen Voss, Independent
Award of Excellence - Tyrone Turner, WMAU
Sports Action
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First Place - Geoff Burke, Freelance for USA Today Sports
Second Place - Mark Goldman, Freelance for ICON
Third Place - Al Drago, Freelance for The Associated Press
Sports Feature/Reaction
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First Place - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Second Place - Kevin Dietsch, United Press International
Third Place - Tasos Katopodis, Freelance for United Press International
Presidential
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First Place - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Second Place - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Third Place - Andrew Harrer, Bloomberg News
Award of Excellence - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Insider’s Washington
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First Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Second Place - Brendan Smialowski, AFP
Third Place - Jim Watson, AFP
Award of Excellence - Al Drago, Freelance for Bloomberg News
Award of Excellence - Rod Lamkey Jr., Independent
Campaign 2020
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First Place - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Second Place - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Third Place - Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call
Award of Excellence - Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Award of Excellence - Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call
Inauguration 2021
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First Place - Kevin Dietsch, United Press International
Second Place - Jim Watson, AFP
Third Place - Matt McClain, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Julio Cortez, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
On Capitol Hill
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First Place - Saul Loeb, AFP
Second Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Third Place - Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call
Award of Excellence - Kevin Dietsch, United Press International
Award of Excellence - Andrew Harrer, Bloomberg News
Award of Excellence - Jabin Botsford, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Award of Excellence - Jack Gruber, USA Today
Domestic News
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First Place - Julio Cortez, The Associated Press
Second Place - Jonathan Ernst, Reuters
Third Place - André Chung, Independent
Award of Excellence - Astrid Riecken, Freelance for The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Cheryl Diaz Meyer, Freelance for Das Bild
Award of Excellence - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Tasos Katopodis, Freelance for Getty Images
Picture Story/Politics
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First Place - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Second Place - Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press
Third Place - Melina Mara, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Kevin Dietsch, United Press International
Award of Excellence - Matt McClain, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence - Rod Lamkey Jr., Freelance for Consolidated News Photos
Award of Excellence - Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Picture Story/Feature
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First Place - Salwan Georges, The Washington Post
Second Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Third Place - Susan Walsh, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Jim Watson, AFP
Award of Excellence - Jacquelyn Martin, The Associated Press
Picture Story/News
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First Place - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Second Place - André Chung, Independent
Third Place - Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, AFP
Award of Excellence - Alex Edelman, Freelance for AFP
Award of Excellence - Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Tasos Katopodis, Freelance for Getty Images
Picture Story/Sports
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First Place - Patrick Smith, Getty Images
Second Place - Kevin Dietsch, United Press International
Third Place - Patrick Smith, Getty Images
Political Portfolio
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First Place - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Second Place - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Third Place - Jim Watson, AFP
Award of Excellence - Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Portfolio
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First Place - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Second Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Third Place - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Brendan Smialowski, AFP
Award of Excellence - Jacquelyn Martin, The Associated Press
January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol
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First Place - Bill O'Leary, The Washington Post
Second Place - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Third Place - Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call
Award of Excellence - Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Carol Guzy, Freelance for ZUMA Press
Award of Excellence - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Award of Excellence - Jim Bourg, Reuters
Picture Story/Jan 6
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First Place - Win McNamee, Getty Images
Second Place - Drew Angerer, Getty Images
Third Place - Andrew Harnik, The Associated Press
Award of Excellence - Saul Loeb, AFP
Award of Excellence - Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA
Top Honors
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Photographer of the Year - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Political Photo of the Year - Doug Mills, The New York Times
Judge’s Discussion
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2021 Stills Contest Judges
Brooks Kraft
Brooks Kraft graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in photographer and film. Early in his career Kraft began as an apprentice to photographer Irving Penn before working at several newspapers in New England. He then joined Sygma picture agency where he focused on international news including photographer Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa. As a contributing photographer for TIME magazine during the Bush and Clinton presidential administrations, he covered the White House and Washington, along with six U.S. presidential campaigns. In 2013 he was named International Photographer of the Year at the IPA awards. He is currently with Apple, Inc., in California, working on photography and visual projects.
Jewel Samad
Jewel Samad started his career as a photojournalist in 1993. He joined the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) in 2000. After being based in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, and covering events ranging from Tsunami to war in Afghanistan and Iraq and various major sporting events like Olympics, World Cup soccer, he was transferred to the United States to join AFP North America team. He spent a year in Los Angeles before coming to Washington, to join AFP team to cover the White House. After covering the Obama administration for about six years, he joined AFP New York team. In 2017 he was transferred back to Asia as the Southeast Asia Photo Chief based in Bangkok, Thailand. He is currently working as AFP’s South Asia Photo Chief, based in New Delhi, India.
Yunghi Kim
Yunghi Kim is a photojournalist who has covered conflicts and in-depth, issue-driven stories all over the world for more than three decades. Intimate storytelling using photography remains her life-long passion.
Yunghi is most proud of her documentation of the lives of former South Korean so-called “Comfort Women”. These women, now grandmothers, were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during its occupation of Korea during World War II. Her 1996 photo essay published all over the world and helped introduce the plight of the “Comfort Women” to the West and turned the tide against the Japanese in the war crime. She started her photojournalism career at The Patriot Ledger, a small newspaper in Quincy Massachusetts in 1984, and then went on to become a staff photographer for the Boston Globe in 1988. She has been a freelance photojournalist represented by the photo agency Contact Press Images since 1995. Her professional accolades include three World Press Photo Awards, Magazine Photographer of the Year by POYi 1997 (one of two women to receive it at the time), The Olivier Rebbot and The John Faber Awards from the Overseas Press Club, Visa D’Or for News from the Visa Pour L’image Festival, The White House Press Photographers, 2000 Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University, School of Communication. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her harrowing coverage of Somalia in 1992. She has also worked on extensive magazine commissioned assignments ever since. Yunghi gives back to photojournalism every year in The Yunghi Grant since 2015. Yunghi has awarded $72K of her own funds to freelance photojournalists. Her most recent project is an educational site for the future generations of photojournalists entitled “TrailblazersOfLight.com: Pioneering Women of Photojournalism” which highlights the lives and achievements of female photojournalists and editors before the advent of the internet.