By: Greg Mitchell There was no Katrina, no Tsunami, not even an Olympics, and the Iraq war grew even more hazardous to cover. Still, the past year produced the usual high number of amazing press photographs -- and a record number of entries in Editor & Publisher's annual Photos of the Year contest.
We are happy to present, in a special gallery
here the 17 winners in four categories (spanning four circulation groups), selected from hundreds of entries. Included are all of the photos from the multiple-image category, as well as a dozen honorable mentions. (The gallery is best viewed using Internet Explorer.)
There you will also find an audio interview with our grand-prize winner, Bill Greene of The Boston Globe. He earns $1,000, as well as a new Canon EOS-1D Mark III camera courtesy of our contest's sponsor, Canon. Winners in the 16 categories receive a year's subscription to our sibling publication, Photo District News, and a 1 GB E&P memory sick with leather cover.
Greene, 51, has been with the Globe for 22 years as a staff photographer. Before that, he worked at The Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, Mass. Twice he has been named Photographer of the Year in the National Press Photographers Association's Pictures of the Year competition (1987 and 1998). He has received Photographer of the Year honors from the Boston Press Photographers Association 10 times. His other honors include the Robert F. Kennedy International Photojournalism Award for his shots of the Lost Boys of Sudan, as well as a first-place award in the World Press competition for his coverage of the Mississippi flood of 1993.
In a sign of the times, the photos in Greene's multiple-image entry did not run as part of a multi-part series over several days, but rather over months, in print and online -- along with audio and slide shows -- under the title "A Promise to Keep."
In the fall of 2006, Globe reporter Charles M. Sennott suggested to Greene (they had worked together in Kosovo) that the sad plight of returning war veterans would be a major story in the year ahead. They got a jump-start on the series in January when they traveled to Minnesota to meet the family of a vet who had just committed suicide. "Our concept," Greene explains, "was that the multi-part series in a newspaper may be a dinosaur, but we could keep adding to a feature on the Web. Every time we turned over a rock, we found five more incredible stories." Greene shoots with two Canon EOS-1D cameras.
The winners of E&P's 2007 Photos of the Year contest are:
Grand Prize: Bill Greene, The Boston Globe
News (Spot/General):More than 250,000: Dave Clark, Agence France-Presse, Washington, D.C.
100,000-249,999: Gary Coronado, The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Fla.
25,000-99,999: Alan Kim, The Roanoke (Va.) Times
Less than 25,000: Beth Gilbert, North Platte (Neb.) Telegraph
Features:More than 250,000: Essdras M. Suarez, The Boston Globe
100,00-249,999: Mark Garfinkel, Boston Herald
25,000-99,999: Danny Drake, The Press of Atlantic City
Less than 25,000: Kelly Lacefield, Antelope Valley Press, Palmdale, Calif.
Sports:More than 250,000: Lucy Nicholson, Reuters
100,000-249,999: Dan Hale, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock, Ark.
25,000-99,999: Phil Noel, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport, Conn.
Less than 25,000: Danielle Gardner, Naperville (Ill.) Sun
Multiple Images/Photo Essay:More than 250,000: Anne Cusack, Los Angeles Times
100,000-249,999: David Goldman, Boston Herald
25,000-99,999: Tom Kelly IV, Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa.
Less than 25,000: Zachary D. Porter, Daily Report, Atlanta, Ga.
Honorable Mentions:Ross Andr?son, Elko (Nev.) Daily Free Press
David Coates, The Detroit News
Jack Hanrahan, Erie (Pa.) Times-News
Barbara L. Johnston, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Daniel Kramer, Houston Press
Martin Lugger, Austrian Press Agency
Rob O'Neal, The Key West (Fla.) Citizen
Brian Peterson, ZUMA Press, Dana Point, Calif.
Essdras M. Suarez, The Boston Globe
Mario Tama, Getty Images, New York
Ross Taylor, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant
Mike Terry, Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City
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