Judges' Comments

• Strong photography with great emotion, excellent compostion and good storytelling moments. We really like that the first several photographs were black and white and the first time the viewer was hit with color, it really mattered. It was an image of bloody footprints that was a strong contrast to the previous black and white. The gallery could have been edited a bit tighter. We thought the galleries might have been stronger if they were combined. The judges were put off by a few user unfriendly issues in the presentation. There was too much text on the intro page. It needs to be broken up into shorter chunks. Also, was hard to read over the photograph. The captions were uneven. Some were too short and some too long. Also would be more readable if the text were pure white and it would be nice from a user point of view if you didn't have to mouse over the photo for captions. Difficult not to take note that this is old work but because it was published this year, it qualifies. Nevertheless, it was very strong photojournalism.

  Thea Breite