Getty Images Dominates Overseas Press Club Photo Awards
“Good morning Matt, and good morning to you,” as the Today show’s Ann Curry would say in her trademark blend of early morning chipperness and seriousness befitting international headlines. Tonight at New York’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Curry will stay up later than usual to present the 69th annual Overseas Press Club Awards, honoring the finest in international journalism.
Our focus, of course, is the photo- and graphics-related awards. Photojournalist James Nachtwey, who has received more OPC Robert Capa Gold Medal Awards than any other photographer since the award’s founding in 1955, will be on hand to accept the organization’s President’s Award, while Getty Images earns three of the four photo awards: John Moore wins for best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise for “The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto“; the award for best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers and wire services goes to Paula Bronstein of Getty for “Death in Karachi”; and the feature photography award goes to Getty’s Brent Stirton, shooting for Newsweek, for “Slaughter in the Jungle,” a cover story about a family of gorillas that were murdered in the Congo.
Staving off a Getty shut-out, Cedric Gerbehaye of Agence VU and Newsweek, wins for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines and books for “Congo in Limbo,” shot in 2006 during the Congo’s first free elections in four decades (it was a big year for the Congo in pictures!). Meanwhile, Clay Bennett of the Christian Science Monitor will take home the Thomas Nast Award for the best cartoons on international affairs, and the OPC’s website award goes to The New York Times (a winner in five other categories, for reporting) for its online feature “Assessing the Surge: A Survey of Baghdad Neighborhoods.”
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