BOP 2006 > Photo Editing Winners > Newspaper Sports project
- 1st Place
- The Gainesville Sun
- Photo Editing Team:
- Brian Kratzer, Director of Photography
- Missi Koenigsberg, Lead Sports Designer
- Rob Witzel, Assistant Photo Director
- Judges' Comments
For sheer dimension this package can’t be bettered. It not only gives a huge amount of real estate to the sport, but does it with passion, and is the most complete look at one team’s season that I’ve ever seen.
Very good sports story telling that captures the ebb and flow of a community that is infatuated with its’ football team. The section does a good job at capturing everything from fans to the athletes.
Gator Vision is just excellent. It shows me that newspaper as a whole is really in touch with its readers and what is important to them, what they do and talk about. This entry stretched over the entire season, and I applaud the photo team for getting a variety of stories in their section and keeping it varied throughout the season. Especially important was their focus on the fans, not merely game action and the athletes. As an entry, there might be redundancy, but as a whole, as a weekly reader it doesn’t feel redundant. I also applaud the quantity of pictures shown. Sometimes it is appropriate for us to have a finely honed edit to bring attention to singular moments, but at other times -- and I think this is an example of it -- where more is more. The volume of this coverage, meaning the large quantity of the pictures ads to the poignancy of the project. This is well edited to this purpose an audience.
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