BOP 2006 > Photo Editing Winners > Magazine Natural Disaster Story
- 3rd Place
- TIME Magazine
- Photo Editing Team:
- MaryAnne Golon, Picture Editor
- Michele Stephenson, Director of Photography
- Judges' Comments
GEOGRAPHIC’S “Katrina” entry and TIME Magazine’s “An American Tragedy” were both excellent pieces. The decision for first place was tough due to the difference in the entries. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC sought to tell the whole story, which it did over 53 pages. TIME boiled the story down to 8 pages. Emotionally, TIME’s piece hits hard. But in the end, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S depth of coverage moved “Katrina” to first place, followed by TIME’s “An American Tragedy” in second place. TIME also did an incredible job in taking the tsunami and publishing four double truck photos that powerfully tell the story in “Sea of Sorrow”. It’s an amazing piece that walks you through the natural disaster.
I thought that this was an extraordinary feat of powerfully telling the story of the tsunami in four double truck spreads. I particularly loved the last picture with the dry ice.
As a judge, and thinking of myself as a reader I preferred the larger version. If I only had one copy of that coverage I would have wanted to the larger version.
Incredible feat to tell a good story in 4 tightly edited images: the event; destruction; human toll and recovery.
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