Chico Sanchez Photography Blog: contest

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), has announced the winners of the Best Of Photojournalism 2011(BOP) for still photography.

Their Best of Show is a picture by Andrew McConnell taken for Panos pictures. I shared some of his work in this blog past November.

Lately in photojournalism it seems that (with the best of the intentions) the top international photojournalist awards go to images featuring death, pain, cruelty, blood, etc. It's great to see NPPA has chosen as its top image, one that shows more than one side of life, poverty but also hope, destruction but also creation.

Congratulations to Andrew McConnell and to Panos pictures for this prize.

I also want to congratulate to my wife Leslie Mazoch, a photo editor at the Associated Press' Latin America & Caribbean headquarters in Mexico City, who won 2nd place in the Sports Picture Story category with her Escaramuza pictures which I shared in this blog in January.

Leslie created an audio-slide show about this Mexican tradition. Please enter here:
http://www.lesliemazoch.com/escaramuzas

To visit all the winners enter this link: http://bop.nppa.org/2011/still_photography/winners/

I'm going to share Chica Barbie a very interesting story by Carl Bower. His pictures show really well beauty contests in Colombia and the importance pageants have in the Colombian society, a country that has lived an armed conflict for years.

His work has been published by numerous publications including New York Times, Washington Post, Time and Newsweek. Bower has also amazing weeding pictures seen by a documentary eye.

Chica Barbie story: http://www.carlbower.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=1&p=1&a=0&at=0
Weeding pictures: http://www.carlbowerphotos.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=1

His documentary portfolio: http://www.carlbower.com
His weeding pictures: http://www.carlbowerphotos.com

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