BOP 2006 > Photo Editing Winners > Newspaper Natural Disaster Front Page
- 2nd Place
- Palm Beach Post
- Photo Editing Team:
- Palm Beach Post Team
- 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?
There were very few pictures we saw that graphically portrayed the dimension of the disaster in New Orleans as this one did. It’s power also comes from the fact that this is clearly an American city, and the paper used the photograph to its fullest effect.
The Palm Beach Post’s front page with a full vertical on the flooded city set the scope of the disaster.
The only appropriate way that image can be displayed is big. This full page display emphasizes the shear physical devastation and magnitude of the hurricane. It truly forecast the difficulties that awaited the people of New Orleans.
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