BOP 2006 > Photo Editing Winners > Magazine Natural Disaster Cover
- 2nd Place
- Time Asia
- Photo Editing Team:
- Maria Wood, Deputy Picture Editor
- Paula Bronstein, Photographer
- Judges' Comments
I agree with the philosophy that you judge what’s before you and pick the best. Yet, as a category, this was weak. Of all the amazing images available, we did not see amazingly compelling covers. Perhaps it’s the strain of weeklies competing with dailies — but some were over designed. When the news is so compelling, why not just let the images speak? This overall category was astonishingly poor in the quality of the images used given the material available.
Second was intimate, but did not have the context of the disaster.
The eyes of the little boy draw the reader in. The use of type doesn’t totally over power the image.
An unusual photograph to use for this disaster, but this also weakens it in my opinion because the reader has to guess as to the nature of the catastrophe.
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