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

2ND PLACE – Chang W. Lee – The New York Times – “A Crisis Right Now: Manila Faces Rising Seas”

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2ND PLACE – Chang W. Lee – The New York Times – “A Crisis Right Now: Manila Faces Rising Seas” - A woman glances the sea from inside her house where it's protected by the seawall (not in the picture) because it's lower than the sea level in Navotas where a typhoon destroyed many houses on the sea outside the seawall. Other people inside the seawall still live there and protected by the seawall where the sea level is higher than these houses in Navotas, Manila, Philippines on Nov. 18th, 2019. The story was published on Feb. 13th, 2020.