BOP 2006 > Photo Editing Winners > Newspaper Natural Disaster Front Page
- 3rd Place
- Orlando Sentinel
- Photo Editing Team:
- Hilda Perez, Picture Editor
- Ken Lyons, DOP
- Lee Fiedler, Picture Editor
- Tom Burton, Picture Editor
- Judges' Comments
This category’s entries did not rise to the proportions of the catastrophes they covered. Where were the newspapers that put both the geographic and personal loss together on a single page? Also lacking was thoughtful photographic display of the ensuing chaos from our government’s ineffective and tardy response to the catastrophe. The scene was ripe with compelling pictures that we saw few papers display. The New York Times page one image brought the loss, the chaos and the haphazard return to normalcy together with their lead picture. The Palm Beach Post aerial of the flooding displayed the scale of the destruction and our third place choice was the most poignant of the pages focusing on the personal loss from Katrina. Also, where were the pictures from the Pakistan earthquake? The loss of life was biblical. Do we choose not to care if a story is miles from our border?
The photographs either show the physical effects of the flooding or the emotional toll on the survivors, and none do so better than the lead picture of this page. The woman’s grief as she sits in front of the shrouded body of her husband dominates the page. It probably would have been more powerful had the editor resisted the urge to add other, weaker images.
Orlando Sentinel’s page brought out for me what was the story, not the flooding, but our preparedness and later our nation’s reaction to the flood. “Gulf Misery Mounts.”
This was the best use of images that told the more personal stories of peoples struggles with the evacuation effort. The story behind the lead image was one of the earliest and most urgent personal tragedies told. The three supporting secondary images at the top of page help tell a complete story of the events unfolding.
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