Award name: 05 Feature Photography Award

Beautiful, painterly pictures that hit all the right visual notes. Great photography executed brilliantly that shows not only the photographic talent, but also the journalistic understanding of the subject and the people captured in the work.

Guttenfelder’s images provide a unique and special vision of a hard to access society. While mainly photographed in the company of government officials, they are a series of special moments taken in a creative and innovative fashion. They show us what daily life is like in a closed-off and isolated society.

Rodrigo Abd’s powerful and moving images show us a variety of situations from a very busy hospital and convey a surprising range of emotions, from despair and grief to dark humor and laughter. His approach is fresh, unique, and creative.

Q. Sakamaki’s lyrical and poetic imagery from Xinjiang, China was a
fresh vision of a region of the world often spoken about but seldom
seen.

Patrick Farrell of The Miami Herald witnessed what the United Nations called “the worst humanitarian disaster to hit Haiti in 100 years.” Haiti’s 2008 hurricane season killed 800 people in what is the western hemisphere’s poorest nation.

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.

Farah Nosh’s project, “The Other Side of War,” presents a rare and intimate glimpse into the private life of an Iraqi family in Baghdad. In startling contrast to the typical media portrayal of Iraqis as either victims or combatants, Nosh presents her subjects as ordinary people, in moments of shelter from the war raging outside the walls of their home.

Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme AWARD YEAR: 2005 AWARD NAME: Feature Photography Award 2005 RECIPIENT: Christopher Morris AFFILIATION: VII for Time / Time Asia HONORED WORK: “Inside the Hermit Kingdom” “Brilliant!” exclaimed one judge about this revealing set of pictures from inside North Korea. Not only is access difficult…

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…

Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme YEAR: 2003 AWARD NAME: The Feature Photography Award 2003 RECIPIENT: Alex Majoli AFFILIATION: Magnum Photos for Newsweek HONORED WORK: “Wars Without End: The Congo”  These beautifully composed black-and-white pictures of the strife in the Congo are a poignant and powerful reminder that we must…