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

EXHIBIT AWARD - Craig Ruttle – Independent for Newsday – “One of the Finest Lost”

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EXHIBIT AWARD - Craig Ruttle – Independent – “One of the Finest Lost” - Robert Cardona Jr., 9, holds the flag that covered the casket carrying his father, NYPD Detective Robert Cardona, of the 13th Precinct detective squad, after it was carried from the Sinatra Funeral Home Saturday, April 25, 2020. in Yonkers, N.Y., during a funeral service. According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison, Detective Robert Cardona died April 15 from complications of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) after 19 years on the force.