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Contest Information

• Introduction
• List of Winners: Print/Online
• List of Winners: Picture Editing
• NPPA.org
• Browse All Entries (NPPA.org)
• Contest Rule (NPPA.org)
• Judge Bios
• Judging Criteria
• Behind the Judging
• Behind the Judging Photo Gallery

Print/Online Winners

• Cliff Edom's, 'New America Award'
• Newspaper Photographer of the Year
• Magazine Photographer of the Year
• Attack on America News
• Attack on America Magazine
• Attack on America Feature
• Attack on America Picture Story
• Attack on America Picture Story Magazine
• International News
• International News Picture Story
• General News
• Domestic News
• Domestic News Picture Story
• Feature
• Feature Picture Story
• Portrait and Personality
• Pictorial
• The Arts
• Computer Image Illustration
• Conceptual Illustration
• Nature and Environment
• Nature and Environment Picture Story
• Sports Action
• Sports Feature
• Sports Picture Story
• Sports Photographer of the Year
• Magazine Feature
• Magazine Portrait and Personality
• Magazine News
• Magazine News Picture Story
• Magazine Feature Picture Story

Web
• Best Use of the Web
• Best Picture Story
• Best News Picture Story
• Best Feature Picture Story
• Best Sports Picture Story
• Best Multimedia Package
• Best Event Package, Attack on America

March 20, 2002

Attack on America Feature
First place: Thomas E. Franklin, The Record

3 NYC Firemen raise the US flag on top of the rubble of the World Trade Center, taken at Ground zero on Sept. 11th.

Attack on America Feature judging criteria:
A single image made on or since September 11th. A single image that captures the emotion/magnitude of any event relating to the Terrorist attacks in the United States and/or any military response. (Newspaper and Magazine)

First place: Thomas E. Franklin, The Record
Second place: Jim Rankin, Toronto Star
Third place: Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Honorable mention: Mark Zaleski, The Press-Enterprise; Michael Williamson, Washington Post; Jessica Lifland, Evansville Courier & Press; Krista Niles, Associated Press; Doug Mills, Associated Press

Winner's comments:
"It is a tremendous honor to win this particular competition. This is the greatest honor, so far. It still amazes me how this picture continues to foster so much emotion and discussion. It was announced last Monday in Washington, D.C. that the picture is going to (become) a postal stamp, which means that it will be sold as a 45 cents stamp and a portion will be donated to charity. I met President Bush and this ranks right up there. -- Tom Franklin

Again, when we look at the attention that this image is bringing, we are so honored. And yet, we are still in a lot of pain over this disaster. We wish that we would have gotten this much attention with an image that caused much less pain. -- Rich Gigli, Record Director of Photography.

Overall judges' comments:
"When I take a step back, symbolically it (the picture) has all the elements: It has the destroyed buildings, the firefighters, the flag being raised ...This has all the story telling elements when you talk about an icon fifty years from now. On some level I don't like this picture at all, but I can't deny the power it has..." -- Cheryl Hatch

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