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 - Justin Lane – EPA - “Funeral Home Overwhelmed with Coronavirus Victims”

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EXHIBIT AWARD - Justin Lane – EPA - “Funeral Home Overwhelmed with Coronavirus Victims” - Funeral director Joe Neufeld Jr. makes preparations for 30 bodies set to be picked up from his family’s funeral home and transferred for cremation by an upstate funeral director who has been helping area funeral homes overwhelmed by the number of people who have died from COVID-19 in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, New York, USA, 24 April 2020. New York funeral homes were overwhelmed by the massive increase in the number of dead as a result of the coronavirus and crematoriums in the city were unable to keep up.