21 June 2007
And the winners are ... the 2007 Picture Editors' Awards
announced
The 2007 Picture Editors' Awards were named at the Great Hall of
Guildhall, the 14th year that the City of London has hosted the
ceremony, on the evening of Wednesday 20 June. The Awards were
presented by veteran war photographer and two times Pulitzer Prize
Winner Horst Faas.
The Awards, supported by Getty Images, Fujifilm, the City of
London, Action Images, Olympus, picturehouse, and Daymen
International, attracted more than 8,500 entries from photographers
across the UK and Ireland.
Cathal McNaughton of the Press Association took the ultimate
accolade - Fujifilm Photographer of the Year. He also won the
Olympus Royal Photographer of the Year, and completed his hat trick
with the Olympus Nature and Environment title. PA colleague Rebecca
Naden won the Action Images Sports Picture of the Year Award, and
PA's Martin Rickett was named Action Images UK & Ireland News
Photographer of the Year.
The Sunday Herald and the Guardian were jointly named Getty
Images Newspaper of the Year. The Sunday Herald Magazine was
awarded Getty Images Newspaper Magazine of the Year. For the first
time, Getty Images made awards recognising the contribution of
electronic publishing. BBC News was named Website of the Year; The
Sun, and the Newbury Weekly News share the Newspaper Website of the
Year title.
The Mail on Sunday's David Shopland took the Action Images
Sports Photographer of the Year Award.
The picturehouse Photo Essay Photographer of the Year went to
Peter Nicholls of the Times for his work in Lebanon.
Getty Images Julian Finney was named the City of London Young
Photographer of the Year, and Daniel Berehulak, also of Getty
Images, won Fujifilm Foreign News Photographer of the Year.
Mark Waugh of the Manchester Evening News took the Fujifilm
Regional Newspapers Photographer of the Year award. Irish freelance
Eamon Ward took the Fujifilm Local Newspapers Photographer of the
Year award for his work for the Clare People.
Harry Borden, represented by the Bonakdar Cleary agency, took
the picturehouse Portrait Photographer of the Year Award for a
striking image of Baroness Thatcher.
Results in full, and the winning images, can be found here
www.pictureawards.net.
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