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

1ST PLACE - David Goldman – The Associated Press – “Prayer”

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1ST PLACE - David Goldman – The Associated Press – “Prayer” - Jenny Edwards, right, holds her eight-month-old grandson, Daniel, during a church service at St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. In harrowing moments, in the sobs of grieving mourners and the incessant wail of sirens, the crises of 2020 have played out painfully within this single Chicago community. Auburn Gresham, a Black community in Chicago, has written its own grim chapter, enduring a deadly virus, economic misery and gun violence, a constant state of turmoil that mirrors the tumult afflicting much of urban America.