NPPA photojournalism contest open to photobloggers

Xeni Jardin 6:19 pm Wed Jan 5, 2005

The NPPA holds annual awards for excellence in photojournalism — this year's contest is accepting entries now, and winners will be judged and posted in March. There's also a web division which is open to independent photo sites; rules are here. Photobloggers, heed the call! You're welcome to enter, and it costs nothing.

Winners from last year's competition are online, and include this stunning series of images by Mark Zaleski about people who work with the dead for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in California. Snip from description for this image: "Pathologists and technicians examine the remains for a woman during an autopsy in the autopsy suite. Each body brought into the Riverside County Sheriff Coroner Bureau is tagged with the individuals identification information."

Link to Zaleski's photos (warning: some are gruesome), Link to another particularly striking series by NPPA winner David Hoegsholt — portraits of a drug-addicted prostitute in Copenhagen. (Thanks, Susannah, and thanks also to Keith W. Jenkins, Photography Editor for The Washington Post Magazine and Best of Photojournalism on the Web Contest Coordinator.).

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