2009
Clip Winner
Todd Sumlin The Charlotte Observer
2009 POY
Andrew Craft
Fayetteville
Observer
2009
SPOY
John Adkisson UNC-Chapel Hill
Clip Contest Stats
June
Images for this contest:
250
Photographers entered:
23
Number of Publications:
21
POY Category Results
Individual Category Winners are listed below
2009
Spot News
First Place - Ashley Garner - The Sanford Herald
Caption: Sanford Police officers and detectives comfort Melanie Tyson as she is escorted along with her children after her 2-year-old son was shot and killed at Cannon Circle in Sanford. agrcc
Second Place - Shawn Rocco - The News & Observer
Caption: One of three shooting victims on Maple Street in Raleigh is transported to an ambulance. gcyfs shooting
Third Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
Caption: Scott Vereen (front) and Paul Green move into the smoke and wind, spraying water around their family's home, trying to keep raging wildfires at bay near Conway, SC. The effort succeeded, and only one home in the neighborhood was damaged, despite huge flames being within 50 feet of several structures. ltqmb Orange Haze
Caption: Paul Green runs carrying clothes while trying to help family evacuate, as wildfires approach homes on 4.23.09 near Conway, SC. Gov Mark Sanford declared a state of emergency Thursday for a coastal county where a wildfire has consumed thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes. ltqmb Evacuate MB fires
Honorable Mention - Julian Harrison - Freelance
Caption: A SWAT member holds a suspect at gunpoint after he surrendered during an armed standoff. Police recovered an arsenal of weapons from the suspect's home. spjrh Armed Standoff
General News
First Place - Yalonda M. James - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Kathy Swafford kisses grandson, Jeremiah Swafford, 2, as family gather around his casket at New Buffalo Baptist Church. Swafford died a victim of child abuse. yiaaf A Long Kiss Good-Bye
Second Place - John Adkisson - UNC Chapel Hill
Caption: Tracy Lane, 5, of Duffield, Va., sleeps on the lap of mother Teresa Vernon while she receives dental treatment on Sunday morning. America's War on Healthcare For three days in late July, hundreds of medical and dental professionals and students descended on the mountains of Southwest Virginia to treat the underinsured or uninsured with the help of Remote Area Medical. In that time over 2,700 patients were seen giving hope to the neglected people of rural America.
Third Place - Ted Richardson - News & Observer
Caption: Alisha Williams fans her nephew Deandre Belgrave, 8, who tried to cool down, with help from wet paper towels and water bottles, on a pew in the chapel of the Durham Rescue Mission after getting overheated waiting outside since 5:45 am for free school supplies. Temperatures soared into the 90s by the time the crowd was allowed inside. Overheated jkrsl
Honorable Mention - Chuck Liddy - News & Observer
Caption: LCpl John Westwood gets instructions from a fellow Marine on the ground as he puts the finishing touches on the American flag he planted at the main gate of FOB Hassanbadin the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. POTUS SEMPER FI
Feature
First Place - John Adkisson - UNC Chapel Hill
Caption: Lorca Lechuga-Haeseler, of Asheville, dumpster dives for bags of vegetables behind a grocery store while working for Food Not Bombs on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The group prepares food gathered through donations and dumpster diving to feed impoverished people and the community.
Second Place - Corey Lowenstein - The News & Observer
Caption: Showing that age is just a number, members of the Durham Divas cheering squad like Ann Gore, 83, left rear, Bertie Bates, 71, center, and Mary Walker, 66, far right, entertained the crowd at the reopening of the old Durham Athletic Park, after its $5.5 million restoration project. Started in 2004, members of group are eligible to join if they live in Durham and if they're over the age of 55. They wowed the crowd with their energy, charm and their sass. - clomo Sassy Seniors
Third Place - Christine Nguyen - The Herald-Sun
Caption: Ava Sorgman (cq), 7, of Chapel Hill sits at Weaver Street Market during the 36th annual Community Fourth of July Celebration on Saturday, July 4, 2009. Sorgman, who was dressed as Uncle Sam, won first place in the youth ages 6-to-11-years-old category in the costume contest.
Honorable Mention - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
Caption: Lowell Curry, dressed as a British Third Guard, teases a child on N. Elm St. on Saturday, July 5, 2008 in Greensboro, NC as the Revolutionary Soldier reenactors had finished a performance.
Honorable Mention - Ethan Hyman - The News & Observer
Caption: Justin Banner jumps across the huge pool of water flowing down South Salisbury Street as he heads towards The Big Easy during heavy rain showers in Raleigh Friday afternoon July 17, 2009. ejhke Puddle Jump
Sports Action
First Place - Ethan Hyman - The News & Observer
Caption: Maryland's Marissa Coleman goes over Duke's Karima Christmas for the loose ball during the second half of Duke's 92-89 overtime loss to Maryland in the finals of the Women's ACC Basketball Tournament Sunday March 8, 2009, at the Greensboro Coliseum. ETHAN HYMAN - ethan.hyman@newsobserver.com
Second Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
Caption: Page's Rob Lovejoy (right) and T C Roberson's Parker Holland (left) battle for possession of the ball. Page won the game 2-1 and will advance to the championship game.
Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Washington Redskins (22) cornerback Carlos Rogers knocks down a pass in the end zone meant for Carolina Panthers wide receiver (89) Steve Smith. jdsiner Eye for the Ball
Honorable Mention - Mark Dolejs - Freelance
Caption: East Surry's Hannah Merritt scores in the 6th inning as Swain County pitcher Shelby Parker looses control of the ball in their game in the 2009 NCHSAA Class A Softball Championship at Walnut Creek Softball Complex on Saturday, June 6, 2009. mudai Missed Catch
Honorable Mention - Robert Franklin - Appalachian State University
Caption: Appalachian State's Devon Moore and N.C. Central's Brian Frierson struggle in mid-air for a catch during ASU's Homecoming game against N.C. Central in Boone, NC on October, 10, 2009.
Sports Feature
First Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
Caption: The hounds gather around Huntsman Codie Hayes, center, as they wait to be blessed before heading out for the Moore County Hounds fox hunt Thanksgiving Day at Hobby Field in Southern Pines, N.C. This year, 17-year-old Hayes stepped in when the usual huntsman, her grandfather Jody Murtagh, was injured in a fall and could not ride. ciabp Fox Hunt
Second Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Miranda Cooper (seated), laughs as golfer Jason Dufner (left) waits for an official (center) to rule after his ball landed on Cooper's lap. jdsin Hit It Where It Lies?
Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Students reach out and try to grab a glove tossed by Carolina Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams. jdsin Souvenir Glove
Honorable Mention - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Baseball campers battle one another attempting to grab a pop-up. jdsin I Got It
Honorable Mention - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Charlotte Knights John Van Benschoten reaches out to tap fists with Chris Huppmann, following the National Anthem. jdsin Major League Tap
Portrait Personality
First Place - Chris Carmichael - University of North Carolina a
Caption: Rev. Ed Taylor performs a soundcheck in preperation for an upcoming concert outside of Gatlinburg Marriage Ministries in Gatlinburg, Tenn. During his 31 years presiding over marriages at Gatlinburg Marriage Ministries, Taylor has married more than 80,000 couples, which is believed to be a world record. But in a slumping economy he says more couples are choosing to cohabitate in order to defer the cost of a wedding.
Second Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
Caption: Amanda Egdorf-Sand is a soil specialist who works with small farmers in North Carolina. Here she participates in a Crop Mob - an activity in which farmers from different farms work together to complete a major project at one location.
Third Place - Corey Lowenstein - The News & Observer
Caption: The recession pushed Walt Kline, 75, an IBM retiree with Alzheimer's disease, out of his $4,800-a-month assisted-living center and into a low-rated Chatham County nursing home. His wife's recent layoff was the cause, a situation hitting increasing numbers of older people who once thought they were well prepared for retirement. - clomo Out of house and home and money
Pictorial
First Place - Chuck Liddy - News & Observer
Caption: Dancers are strewn across the second floor in the Durham Performing Arts Center Thursday June 18, 2009 as the American Dance Festival opens the 2009 season. POTUS DANCERS
Second Place - David T. Foster, III - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: A bird takes flight across the Charlotte skyline as rain and fog encase the top of the Bank of America Corporate Center on Sunday afternoon. Forecasts are calling for rain through Monday with highs in the 50s. dfunc FOGGY FLIGHT
Third Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
Caption: The Westover High School marching band march single file onto the football field to perform before the start of the football game against E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, N.C. ciabp Marching
Illustration
First Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
Caption: Eddie McLaurin, the owner of the local haunted attraction, Woods of Terror, leads his monsters into his 14th season. The attraction is rated as one of America's Best Haunts. McLaurin and his zombies.
Second Place - Arkasha Stevenson - University of North Carolina a
Caption: While the clown is intended to pose as a child friendly figure, he is historically meant as an augur of tragedy. For example, in Marlena Dietrich's movie Blue Angel, the entrance of the clown symbolized the demise of the protagonist. With their exaggerated body parts such as hands, feet, noses, and mouths it is clear how clowns fit into an act that features physical deformities. Concidering this and the character's history, it is not unpredictable that in modern American culture the clown has taken a darker turn. With such popular cultural references such as Stephen King's book It featuring a make believe killer clown, the serial killer John Wayne Gacy who would pose as Pogo the Clown up until his arrest, and the Joker who is the evil villain depicted in the Batman cartoons, it is probable that modern day culture's use of the evil clown has evoked the almost automatic association of the dark, grim. tragic, and grimy with that of the supposed carefree clown. The image above attempts to portray the clown after hours in his tragic state.
Third Place - Arkasha Stevenson - University of North Carolina a
Caption: Christmas Cookies: Leaving cookies and milk for Santa to snack on while delivering Christmas presents is a long-time tradition in many households with children. mudai Cookies
News Picture Story
First Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
Caption: Paul Green runs carrying clothes while trying to help family evacuate, as wildfires approach homes on 4.23.09 near Conway, SC. South Carolina Gov Mark Sanford declared a state of emergency Thursday for a coastal county where a wildfire has consumed thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes. ltqmb Evacuate MB fires
Second Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
Caption: Animal control officer Paul Loflin arrives on the scene at Little Gym, a children's gymnastics business, where a deer leapt through the glass windows.
Third Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
Caption: A spectator reacts while watching the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama on jumbotron screens on the National Mall, January 20, 2009. Obama took the oath as the nation's 44th, and first African-American, President. ltqmb Faces 1
Honorable Mention - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
Caption: Paratroopers, from the 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, grab their gear and head to awaiting buses, which will take them to green ramp to board planes for a nighttime jump. The paratroopers were taking part in a joint forcible entry exercise on Fort Bragg. ciabp Back on Call
Feature Picture Story
First Place - Todd Sumlin - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: A big part of Lexi's daily therapy is swimming. Free from the confines of her wheelchair, she is able to travel easily through the water with help from her mom.
Second Place - courtney potter - University of North Carolina a
Caption: Rosa Chivian, 9, is a Shuar Indian and recent amputee from deep in Ecuadorian Amazon jungle. Since her people believe that accidents are curses from evil spirits, her family fled with Rosa to another province to escape the shame of being cursed. Now the family is living at the Hospital Vozandes del Oriente in Shell, Ecuador, as Rosa undergoes rehabilitation and learns how to transcend the stigma attached to her malady. cpott Helping Rosa
Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: Rashale got love and attention from one of her favorite friends, Miss Kim of Hospitality House where she stayed when she was not hospitalized getting chemotherapy. jdsin An Unexpected Turn
Honorable Mention - Chuck Liddy - News & Observer
Caption: LCpl John Westwood gets instructions from a fellow Marine on the ground as he puts the finishing touches on the American flag he planted at the main gate of FOB Hassanbad which Golf Company of the 2/2 calls home in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.CHUCK LIDDY-chuck.liddy@newsobserver.com
Sports Picture Story
First Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
Caption: Members of the Battle Forest team came as a wedding party for the swimmers parade that took place before the afternoon competition.
Second Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
Caption: Hunters wait on their horses for the other hunters to arrive for the Thanksgiving Day Moore County Hounds fox hunt in Southern Pines, N.C. ciabp Hounds & Fog
Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
Caption: NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson's pit crew hurries around his car during a pit stop at Daytona International Speedway. Johnson won his fourth consecutive NASCAR Championship in 2009. jdsin That's Racin'
Professional Portfolio
First Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
Caption: Native American Jay Hill dances in the circle to the beat of drums at the 2009 Spring Powwow Friday, May 1, 2009, in Lumberton, N.C. ciabp Sunset Dance
Student Portfolio
First Place - John Adkisson - UNC Chapel Hill
Caption: William Allen takes part in a group prayer while participating in the Taking Back the City revival held at Melrose Park on Wednesday evening in Roanoke. Leaders from about half a dozen local congregations organized the event to reach out to the community. We need Him, Allen said. I need him.
The Final Clip Results will be announced at the meeting.
2009 POY
Meeting This Weekend
2010 NCPPA
Annual Meeting and Pictures of the Year Randolph Community College - Asheboro North Carolina
February 26-27th, 2010
This Event is Free to the Public
NCPPA Schedule Friday, Feb 26th 4 p.m. -10 p.m.- Professional and Student Portfolio Judging. (Not open to public)
John Simmons from the Charlotte Observer will be running the POY at the meeting.
Thanks John!
Saturday, Feb 27th 9a.m.-Complete. - Multimedia and Individual Categories Judging: 1st rounds open to public
7-10 p.m. Social Gathering and Print Auction
Hotel Reservations Fairfield Inn & Suites Asheboro Ask for the NCPPA Group Rate of $70 920 Executive Way
Asheboro, North Carolina 27203 USA
Phone: 1-336-626-9197
Sam Abell's thirty-year career has been dedicated to achieving artistic expression through documentary photography. He has pursued his goals primarily through his lengthy, in-depth coverages for National Geographic magazine and its Book Division. At the same time, he has maintained a career as an artist, teacher, and author.
The raw material of Abell's photography comes from close contact with the world, especially austere, remote regions. To affirm and, in fact, emphasize his commitment to what actually exists, he has chosen to work in color and in a strict documentary tradition.
He has applied himself, particularly, to the photography of cultural landscape: He explores ways in which places can be purely recorded, with images simultaneously shaped by the photographer's imagination.
In addition, he has maintained a personal black-and-white photographic diary that documents the life behind the artistic process. In 1990 Mr. Abell's work was the subject of a one-man exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York City. A companion book, Stay This Moment, was published at that time.
In addition to his photography Mr. Abell is a member of the board of the director of the Santa Fe Center For Photography, the George Eastman House, and the University of Virginia Art Museum. In 2002 he collaborated with Leah Bendavid-Val on a retrospective of his life and work titled Sam Abell:The Photographic Life., published by Rizzoli. He is also the author of the book Seeing Gardens, published in 2001.
Currently Mr. Abell is photographing the Amazon headwaters for a book project. An extensive online interview with Mr. Abell and gallery of his images can be found on the Digital Journalist website (Digital Journalist+Sam Abell). Mr. Abell is represented by the Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington DC.
Meet the Judges
Ross Taylor is a staff photographer for The Virginian-Pilot, and is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
Taylor was named the 2007 Region 1 (New England) Photographer of the Year and is a two-time Photographer of the Year (NC) whose work has appeared on the cover of the National Press Photographers Best of Photojournalism magazine. He has won numerous international, national and regional awards as well as one of the Associated Press Photos of the Century awards.
Along the way, he has rambled across America, photographed in a Central American jail and received the Heimlich maneuver in a Tennessee Taco Bell.
Throughout his travels and work, Taylor has called a variety of places home - a walk-in closet, a storage space under a staircase, three attics, a couch in Central Appalachia and the back of a Nissan truck.
Taylor has hugged the Taj Mahal, kissed a 70-year-old woman on Bourbon Street, and swallowed fire at a Coney Island Side Show class.
He has been attacked by two angry mobs, several monkeys and one terrible virus in India.
Taylor skinny dipped in more than 20 states and was once stung by a jellyfish in the process. Taylor also accidently maced himself once he's not sure which was more painful.
In between shooting and thinking about photography, he reminisces about the glory days of foosball in Chapel Hill and a childhood filled with kickball, school pizza and chocolate milk.
Rebecca Ducker - is a community journalist based at the Morning News in Florence , S.C. where she she shoots stills, produces video, and writes stories for the Morning News, WBTW News 13, and SCNow.com.
A 2007 graduate of Randolph Community College she began her career with internships in still photojournalism at the Greenville News in Greenville, S.C. and the Salisbury Post in Salisbury, N.C. In August of 2007 she started with the Morning News as an intern in the photography department. Two months later she was hired as a full- time photojournalist. During her first two years with the Morning News she worked on shooting and writing enterprise stories along with daily assignments as well as teaching herself broadcast video production. In August of 2009 she was promoted to Online Content Producer. In her current position she is responsible for providing content across three platforms print, broadcast, and web.
Her photojournalism and multimedia work has been honored by Media General, the North Carolina Press Photographer's Association, the South Carolina Press Photographer's Association and the Southern Short Course in News Photography.
Ashlie White - is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She majored in Visual Communication at the school of Journalism and Mass Communication where she specialized in Photojournalism and Multimedia.
White served as President of the UNC student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. With innovation and diplomacy she secured funding through the 16-campus university system so members could travel to journalism workshops and seminars throughout the United States.
Shortly after graduating she traveled abroad working on several multimedia projects. They included stints in Ecuador for the Morehead Foundation and in Spain covering the labor movement for the Edward Jackson International Scholarship foundation.
In January of 2006 she began an internship with The Chattanooga Times Free Press and was promoted to staff photographer six month later. White worked at the newspaper until December of 2007. She is currently the director of project development for Adaptive Technologies in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Her work has been honored by the College Photographer of the Year contest, East Tennessee Golden Press Card Contest and the Pictures of the Year International contest.
NCPPA VP Wins $1,100 Grant
ASHEVILLE The Asheville Area Arts Council announced the recipients of the 2009-10 Grassroots Arts Program Grants and Regional Artist Project Grants totaling more than $42,000 this week.
But for Regional Artist Project Grant recipient and Citizen-Times photographer Erin Brethauer, it's an award that will last her all four seasons."
Brethauer received $1,100 to purchase photography equipment for a series of portraits she is doing of Western North Carolina farmers.
These farmers will be photographed in the same outdoor location of their farm during each of the seasons, she said.
“(The grant) just lets me do it right away,” Brethauer said. “It's really helpful to write a proposal and have a clear sense of what I need.” the story
The American press has transformed from being watchdogs to lapdogs, Andrew Sullivan wrote in The Sunday Times, and it is no longer truly independent, or eager to offend, or skeptical of power, and so readers have learned to look elsewhere for their news.
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twentieth Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann. The $20,000 award is given to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed American photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor.
NPPA was pleased to see that U.S. Rep, Edolphus Towns of New York's 10th District has introduced House Congressional Resolution 298, which recognizes that the videotaping or photographing of police who are engaged in potentially abusive activity in a public place should not be prosecuted in state or federal courts. And now NPPA has asked Rep. Towns to take the next step and to change his Resolution into a Congressional Bill.
Photojournalist Andrea Bruce has decided to leave The Washington Post to go freelance, and her photography will be represented by the VII Photo Agency's network, photography and multimedia director Michel duCille told the Post's staff today.
As The Washington Post reports, despite a First Amendment that protects the rights of citizens to take photographs in public places, the Constitution hasn't exactly filtered down to many of the police and security guards who continue to harass photographers, often citing authority they don't have and laws that don't exist.
Seattle Times photographers have started a new photo blog called "Picture This," which they say will offer a glimpse into what inspires their best visual reporting.
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