Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
AWARD YEAR: 2007
AWARD NAME: Feature Photography Award 2007
RECIPIENT: Brent Stirton
AFFILIATION: Getty Images for Newsweek
HONORED WORK: “Slaughter in the Jungle”
Brent Stirton’s pictures record the killings of gorillas in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and are riveting visual documents of how the natural world has also suffered in a conflict that has claimed millions of human victims.
Citation for Excellence:
Cheryl Diaz Meyer
The Dallas Morning News
“Self Immolation: Escape by Fire”