Best of Photojournalism 2006: TV News Photography: Winners
Documentary Finalists
(In Alphabetical Order)
- Chuck Cochran, WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD
- “Survivors Among Us”
- Michael DelGuidice, News 12, Long Island, NY
- “Road to a Cure”
- John Goheen, HDNet
- “Child Miners”
- “Indonesia Tsunami-Finally a Drop to Drink”
- Jay Jennings, WRAL-TV, Raleigh-Durham, NC
- “Line in the Sand”
- Greg Kelly & Eric Foss, CBC
- “Beyond Words:Photographers of War”
- Todd Ofenbeck, WBBH-TV, Ft. Myers, FL
- “Living Through the Eye: 6 Months After Charley”
Winners
- 1st John Goheen, Hdnet, “Child Miners”
- 2nd Chuck Cochran, WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD “Survivors Among Us”
Judges' comments
“Several really good efforts in this category!” Lou Davis said. The first and second places in the category were great efforts! Again, the photographers that deepend the impact of their stories with what they brought to them out distanced the competition. Child Miners was a great example of how being faithful capturing small moments can mean so much to a story! A simple cough that foreshadows a huge health consequence from mining silver in the mountains of Bolivia. Heavy breaths while miners crawl through small tunnels to light even smaller fuses in the thin Andes air! Wow! This photographer took the time to give us the experience… not just pretty pictures! Moments, moments, moments. Shoot them, weigh them and distribute them into your stories. Even if they seem small, being faithful with them is a huge thing!”
“Overall, this category was hard for me judge, I actually liked most of the entries at least content wise and for me it just came down to planning and execution,” Kevin Labrecque said. “All the finalists did a really nice job. Congratulations.
“The documentary category produced a very solid group of finalist. While we decided to award just a first and a second place, we did have a great deal of discussion on five of the entries,” Ray Meints said. “The winner, ‘Child Minors’ was a great example of solid photography and good story telling under very difficult circumstances. It gave me an in-depth look at a part of the world that I will probably never visit. Photography is much more than taking pictures. We have a chance to make a difference in this world with the stories we tell. Certainly this is a situation where change is needed, and I can only hope that the efforts of the photographer and the producers can facilitate that change. Great photojournalism!”
“There's not a lot to say on this category,” Greg Stotelmyer said. “We saw some fantastic efforts. It’s a difficult category to compare entries. Reaching beyond the boundaries of your market always seems to work in long form contests, and it was no different here. I differed with the panel’s consensus, casting my individual vote for the runner-up, ‘Survivors Among Us.’”
“I applaud it for molding together the various parts that go into a great documentary. The supporting video was solid and covered many different moments. The most memorable was a Holocaust survivor’s reunion with a nun who took care of him decades ago in a French hospital. Adding to the solid work of the photographer were a good choice of subtle music, excellent production of the many pictures and very good work by the reporter. I would have left out the standup where she picked up a rock at a concentration camp. This story didn’t need that to evoke emotion. You already had it.”
“Also, a standing ovation for a team effort by folks at the station which produced ‘Living Through the Eye: 6 Months After Charley.’ I’ve always struggled with how to judge any entry that does not have the time, resources or need to travel out of state, or better yet, out of country to do a story. Bolivia. France. Germany. Hey, the coast of Florida works too.”
Judge Ernesto Torres said, “There was a great and full commitment from the photojournalist in telling a very compelling story about children working in mines. It had a lot of strong and emotional moments that helped convey the importance of the story.
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