Getty's John Moore Named POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year

 

COLUMBIA, MO (February 27, 2008) - In the second week of judging at the University of Missouri School of Journalism's Pictures of the Year International, John Moore of Getty Images has been named Magazine Photographer of the Year. Last week Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot was named the contest's Newspaper Photographer of the Year.

Tomas van Houtryve was runner-up Magazine Photographer of the Year, and freelancer Moises Saman finished third.

Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune was runner-up Newspaper Photographer of the Year, and Kuni Takahashi of the Chicago Tribune was third.

Strazzante also won first place in the Community Awareness Award category for his long-term personal project "Another Country." The story, presented as photographic diptychs, is about a 118-acre family farm near Lockport, IL, that was sold and reborn as a subdivision of homes. The essay pairs images of the family farm as it was with current-day pictures of the subdivision that was built on the land.

Katz, Strazzante, and Takahashi are also members of the National Press Photographers Association.

Moore's winning MPOY portfolio included his widely-published "Memorial Day At Arlington" photograph which shows Mary McHugh prone across the grave of her slain fiancé, Sgt. James Regan, at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, DC.

POYi judging continues with the multimedia and editing divisions being judged on March 2.

The POYi judges this year are Jeanie Adams-Smith from Western Kentucky University; Ruth Fremson from The New york Times, Wen Huang from the Xinhua News Agency in Beijing, China; freelance sports photojournalist Brad Mangin from San Francisco; Sue Brisk from Magnum Photo Agency; Ruth Eichhorn from GEO magazine; photojournalist Chris Hondros from Getty Images; photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally; Keith Graham from the University of Montana; photojournalist Michele McDonald from the Boston Globe; and MSNBC director of multimedia Robert Hood.

 

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