International
News Picture Story
First
place: Stephen Ferry, Look at Photos
International
News Picture Story judging criteria:
A series of pictures, taken outside of the United States, that
depicts a story line or single theme. This story may be spot news,
general news or issue reporting. Twelve images maximum per story.
(Newspaper)
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First Place: Stephen Ferry, Lookat Photos
Second Place: Mike Stocker, The Sun-Sentinel
Third Place: Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times
Honorable Mention: Lois Raimondo, The Washington Post
Honorable Mention: Cheryl Diaz Meyer, Dallas Morning News
Winner's
comments:
"I would have thought this category would have automatically
gone to Afghanistan. There was such excellent work out there this
year. ... Columbia is a very different kind of conflict than I've
covered before. It's a civil war and the lines are often very hazy.
I've been working on Columbia quite a bit the last few years. One
of my motivations for working in Columbia is that people really
have no idea of the level of violence in the country, the human
rights violations, who the players are, and what's truly happening
there." -- Stephen Ferry
Overall
judges' comments:
"I think in terms of judging, the message would be we are an
extremely well balanced group of judges because we would not let
ourselves be taken by the sheer numbers [of Afghanistan war pictures].
We know that the Afghan story ranks as one of the most important
in terms of exposure, but what I think we considered was the fact
that the returnees [FARC releasing Colombian soldiers] was real
hard news. It went perfectly well in terms of space and time, as
news goes. With great synthesis, it tells you about this tragedy
in Colombia that has lasted for more than 30 years; that has - and
still is - occasionally causing enormous human misery. The line
of this story was not "Colombia," it was a father, a son
and the rebel leader. It was a Greek tragedy." -- Horacio Villalobos
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