Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme
AWARD YEAR: 2004
AWARD NAME: Feature Photography Award 2004
RECIPIENT: James Hill
AFFILIATION: The New York Times
HONORED WORK: “Beslan”
A compelling black and white approach to this huge news story shows with great effectiveness the terrible tragedy of the Beslan school bombing. The large format images drive home the stark reality of the massacre that took the lives of so many people, mostly innocent children. The minimalist quality of Hill’s pictures is truly haunting, so disquieting that one judge said, “You can hear the voices of the dead.”
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