2020 Year in Pictures Gallery

Results of the 86th Annual Photography & Multimedia Contest, 2020 Year in Pictures and Multimedia Contest, judged in 2021. – Multimedia results | Meet the Judges

The Best in Show, Photographer of the Year and “Anthony J. Causi” Sports Photographer of the year was announced on March 29, 2021.

Judging has concluded and the winners are listed below.

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2021 NYPPA Best in Show Sponsored by FujiFilm is awarded to 

Al Bello-Getty Images

Olivia Grant (R) hugs her grandmother, Mary Grace Sileo through a plastic drop cloth hung up on a homemade clothes line during Memorial Day Weekend on May 24, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. It is the first time they have had contact of any kind since the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic lockdown started in late February.

2021 Photographer of the Year Sponsored by Canon USA is awarded to

David Goldman – Associated Press

2021 “Anthony J. Causi Sports Photographer of the Year Award” Sponsored by Canon USA is awarded to

Michael Stobe – Getty Images Independent

3RD PLACE - David Goldman - The Associated Press - “A Small Cemetery Copes”

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3RD PLACE - David Goldman - The Associated Press - “A Small Cemetery Copes” - Caskets are lined up for burial as Rabbi Shmuel Plafker, left, and funeral director James Donofrio keep pace with a surge of burials, mostly of those who died from coronavirus, at Hebrew Free Burial Association's cemetery in the Staten Island borough of New York, Sunday, April 12, 2020. "We literally changed the grieving process for all these thousands of people that died from coronavirus," said Donofrio of family who can't attend burials or must do so from their cars. "Their thoughts are going to be that their loved one couldn't even get a proper burial and it's going to be difficult for them to get over.