The Contest Designed by Photojournalists for Photojournalists

Compete with the very best in still and television photojournalism, in picture editing, and Web editing. Now in its eighth year, the Best of Photojournalism (BOP) is the world's leading digital photojournalism contest.

BOP is a project of the National Press Photographers Association.

1st Place, Best Published Picture Story (large markets)

Melissa Lyttle/St. Petersburg Times

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STORY SUMMARY: For the first seven years of her life, Danielle never saw the sun, felt the wind or tasted solid food. She was kept in a closet in a Plant City apartment, cloistered in darkness, left in a dirty diaper, fed only with a bottle. “She was a ferral child,” said Carolyn Eastman of the Tampa heart Gallery. “We’d never seen a case like that.”

CAPTION: In what you can make out through the broken, dirt-marked window, the view from the room Dani was confined to in Plant City, offers up a non-inspiring view of one neighboring house, and a cluttered yard in between. While giving a tour of Dani’s old house, Charlie Moulton, 11, whose family now owns it , pauses to watch his younger brother through the same window that was Dani’s only glimpse of the outside world.

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