NEW MEDIA CONTEST PRELIMINARY RESULTS
New Media Contest results for BEST USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY are cited below.Additional results will follow, as available, and they will be posted on our web site.
First Place:
Struggle in Mississippi Delta:
African American farmers in the deep South struggle as major portions of federal
crop subsidies are given to large industrialized farms. Agricultural towns like
Shelby and Mound Bayou in Mississippi suffer from poverty, crime and high
unemployment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070619/GAL-07Jun19-78480/index.html
Producer: Whitney Shefte
Photo Editor: Whitney Shefte
Photographer: Carol Guzy
Second Place:
Abductions Hold Haiti Hostage
Despite the presence of thousands of U.N. troops and a new military offensive to
root out gangs, armed thugs still rule much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where many of
the 2 million residents live in tin or cinder-block shacks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/022107/haiti/index.html
Producer: Dee Swann
Photo Editors: Dee Swann, Alexandra Garcia
Photography: Michel du Cille
Third Place:
For Them. By Them.
For six weeks, 30 teenagers, most of whom are from Southeast D.C., have worked
tirelessly on proposals for a $300,000 project to enhance their community.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070803/GAL-07Aug03-83470/index.html
Producer: Dee Swann
Photo Editor: Dee Swann, Tom Kennedy
Photographer: Carol Guzy
Award of Excellence 1:
The Lost Boys – Transforming Fort Dimanche
The boys warehoused at Fort Dimanche are the products of poverty, child abandonment,
rampant homelessness and an educational system that has failed to enroll 1 million
school-age children. A group using seed money from pop star Wyclef Jean hopes to
turn the children’s prison into Haiti’s first child rehabiliation center.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070302/GAL-07Mar02-66790/index.html
Additional Work by Michel du Cille / The Washington Post and Nelson Hsu and Lindsay
McCulough / washingtonpost.com
Producer: Nancy Donaldson – washingtonpost.com
Photography: Michel du Cille – The Washington Post
Photo Editing: Nancy Donaldson and Lindsay McCullough – washingtonpost.com
Design: Nelson Hsu – washingtonpost.com
Award of Excellence 2:
Fixing D.C.’s Schools: A History of Washington Education
Take a photographic journey through the history of D.C.’s schools: from the
inception of the school system to the tumultuous era of racial integration to the
numerous reform efforts of the present, the schools have long reflected changes in
the city and the nation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/070607/GAL-07Jun07-76881/index.html
Producer: Whitney Shefte
Photo Editor: Whitney Shefte