BOP 2007 > Web Site Winners > Feature Photo Gallery (Large Affiliated Sites)

1st
“The Immigrant Plight”, Time Magazine/Time.com
2nd
“When War is Over”, Time Magazine/Time.com
3rd
“Colombia Drugs”, Time Magazine/Time.com
HM
“China’s Great Divider of the Sexes: Poverty”, Washingtonpost.com
Place
When War is Over
Time Magazine/Time.com
Comments (Richard Koci Hernandez)

Judges continue to struggle with the idea how to judge a well edited  gallery from an organization with the resources of all the wires versus  a package from one photographer trying to tell a story. On this issue we fell on the side of the rules, "story-telling ability of the photograph is key".

Overall there was a lack of traditional feature entries. In this category we saw lots of features with a heavy news bent. "Plight" went straight to the top. It was a great story that was well edited. We've see this story many times, but  this photographer captured something new. There was no redundancy, only nine great images.  "After the War" is a very moving look at the length of time that war victims suffer from wars past. We liked the visual variety of this piece. This project was a great idea, done in a different way and well thought out.  "Suffering goes on over an entire life. . . epic scope".  The unconventional caption was appropriate. "Narco" showed amazing access. It was edited tightly with nothing extraneous. We did think that the image "demonstrating" the  swallowing of drugs was unnecessary, because the photographer had already done a good job showing the viewer the story, without the need to have the subject "demonstrate." "China" was very intimate.

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