The (US) National Press Photographers Association 'Best of Photojournalism' winners have been announced. You can view the winner, category winners and honorary mentions here.
For me, photojournalists are the creme de la creme of photographers - they're not there to create aesthetically pleasing, technically perfect, though often vacuous, compositions. The images they take are searing, powerful reminders of the "world out there" and the need for us to remember that world and to respond in a politically responsible way. It's a pity that many of their images do not make it to our daily press. How much more powerful would our response to the Kashmir earthquake have been if The West Australian had published this image and this image and also this image?
The photographs in the Local Portrait and Personality category are amazing. And the stories they illustrate are shocking and confronting.
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