2022 Year in Pictures Gallery

Results of the 88th Annual Photography & Multimedia Contest, 2022 Year in Pictures and Multimedia Contest, judged in 2023. – Multimedia results | Meet the Judges

The Best in Show, Photographer of the Year, and “Anthony J. Causi” Sports Photographer of the year will be announced the week of March 21 the contest judging. Judging has concluded and the winners are listed below.

2023 NYPPA Best in Show Sponsored by Nikon Inc. is awarded to Alex Kent- Independent – Restless Souls of Bucha

2023 Photographer of the Year Sponsored by Canon is awarded to Alex Kent- Independent

2023 “Anthony J. Causi Sports Photographer of the Year Award” Sponsored by Canon is awarded to Robert Sabo – NY Post-Independent

PHOTOGRAPHY

Spot News “William V. Finn Memorial” Award

Two teenagers begin to panic as they are caught in a rip current at Main Beach on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 in Manasquan, N.J. Both were rescued by Manasquan lifeguards, who performed more than two dozen rescues throughout the day. Andrew Mills/NJ Advance Media

1st Place – Andrew Mills – NJ Advance Media – Rip Current Rescue

2nd Place – Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – House Fire Reaction

3rd Place – Todd Maisel – Independent – AM NEW YORK – Psychotic fury

HM – Alexi Rosenfeld – independent – Moments of Panic

HM – David Handschuh – Independent for Newsday- Moments of Panic

EA – David Handschuh – Independent for Newsday- Five Alarm Fire

EA – Todd Maisel – Independent- AM NEW YORK – Confined

EA – James Keivom – NY Post Independent – Gunshot Victim

EA – Lloyd Mitchell – Independent- AM NEW YORK- CPR Rescue

EA – Lloyd Mitchell – Independent- AM NEW YORK- Mass Shooting

EA – Lloyd Mitchell – Independent – AM NEW YORK – Firefighter Vertical

General News

New York Police pall bearers carry the casket of NYPD Officer Jason Rivera out of St. Patrick’s Cathedral after his funeral service, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in New York. Rivera and his partner, Officer Wilbert Mora, were fatally wounded when a gunman ambushed them in an apartment as they responded to a family dispute last week. Alejandra Villa-Loarca/Newsday

1st Place – Alejandra Villa-Loarca – Newsday – Honoring a Hero

2nd Place – Alexi Rosenfeld – Independent -Final Salute

3rd Place – Alex Kent – Independent – Kathy Hochul’s election party

HM – Alejandra Villa-Loarca – Newsday – Funeral for FDNY firefighter Jesse Gerhard

HM – Justin Lane – European Pressphoto Agency – NYPD Police Officer Funeral

EA – Todd Maisel – Independent- AM NEW YORK – Unbearable pain

EA – Todd Maisel – Independent – AM NEW YORK – Picture of pain

EA – Debbie Egan-Chin – Independent for Newsday – Tearful Good-bye

EA – Edward Murray – NJ Advance Media – Six Weddings

EA – J. Conrad Williams Jr. – Newsday – Funeral for High Rise Fire VIctims

EA – Edward Murray – NJ Advance Media – Mask Free

EA – Justin Lane – European Pressphoto Agency – New York Crime Scene

EA – Syndi Pilar – Independent – Pro Choice Rally, Foley Square

The “Carl Thusgaard” National/International News

Connie Del Rio, from San Antonio, holds her son Rio, aged 2, as she looks at tributes outside of Robb Elementary School for the victims of the shooting, Uvalde, Texas. 30 May 2022. Adam Gray/SWNS

1st Place – Adam Gray – SWNS – Uvalde Loss

2nd Place – Julio Cortez – Associated Press – Firefighters Mourning

3rd Place – Alex Kent – Independent – Restless Souls of Bucha

HM – Maye-E-Wong – Associated Press – Uvalde Grief

HM – James Keivom – NY Post Independent – Migrants Cross US Mexico Border Wall

EA – David Goldman – Associated Press – A Soldier’s Farewell

EA – David Goldman – Associated Press – Yellowstone Flooding

EA- James Keivom – NY Post Independent – Roe vs Wade Overturned

EA- James Keivom – NY Post Independent – Migrants Rescued in Eagle Pass

EA- Adam Gray – SWNS – Fleeing Ukraine

EA- Alex Kent – Independent – Restless Souls of Bucha

News Picture Story

The eye of a dead Ukrainian citizen can be seen in a partially unzipped body bag among dozens of bodies exhumed from the mass grave created at St. Andrews Church during the Russian occupation of Bucha, Ukraine, on 4.4.22. Russian forces prevented Ukrainians from performing funerals, so the Ukrainians created the mass grave behind St. Andrews Church to give their slain neighbors a sense of peace in death that they didn’t have in their final living moments. Alex Kent- Independent – Restless Souls of Bucha

1st – Alex Kent- Independent – Restless Souls of Bucha

2nd – James Keivom – NY Post Independent – Migrants wade through the Rio Grande

3rd – Maye-E-Wong – Associated Press – Uvalde Shooting

HM – David Goldman – Associated Press -Donetsk

HM – Adam Gray – SNWS – Fleeing Ukraine

Feature

A youth band practices on the corner of Kingston and Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn on Friday, August 12, 2022. Brian Branch-Price /Zuma Press Independent

1st Place – Brian Branch-Price – Zuma Press Independent – Brooklyn Band

2nd Place – David Goldman – Associated Press – Goodbye Grandparents

3rd Place – Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – New York City Pride Is Back

HM – Brian Branch-Price – Zuma Press Independent – AMERICAN DREAM CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH

HM – Adam Gray – SNWS- NRA Family

EA – Ed Murray – NJ Advance Media – We did it!

EA – Tim Hawk – NJ Advance Media – Miss New Jersey Teen

EA- Brian Branch-Price – Zuma Press Independent – CRAZY FAITH RIDERS BBQ

EA – Thomas A. Ferrara – Newsday – Witches Paddle

EA- Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – Long Lasting Love

EA- James Keivom – NY Post Independent – 4th of July

EA- Justin Lane – European Pressphoto Agency – Interactive Art

Feature Picture Story

Henry Carey picks up a conch shells while fishing for conch off the coast of McLean’s Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Many fishermen of conch acknowledge that there are less conch than there used to be. But there is also much opposition to the possibility of new restrictions on the fishery. Even the possibility of a closed season draws ire. David Goldman /Associated Press

1st Place – David Goldman – Associated Press – Conch Overfishing

2nd Place – Alex Kent – Independent – In The Shadow of Diagnosis

3rd Place – David Goldman – Associated Press – Youth and the War

HM- David Goldman – Associated Press – Portraits of a Million

HM – Maye-E-Wong – Associated Press – Alzheimer’s The fight to Live or Die with Dignity

Pictorial

HOBOKEN NJ – AUGUST 23: A skateboarder performs a trick in front of the Empire State Building in New York City at a skate park on August 23, 2022, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Gary Hershorn/Independent for Getty images

1st Place – Gary Hershorn – Independent for Getty Images – Skateboarding in Front of the Empire State Building in New York City

2nd Place – Gary Hershorn – Independent for Getty Images – Lightning Strikes One World Trade Center in New York City

3rd Place – Maye-E-Wong- Associated Press – New York Summer

HM – Gary Hershorn – Independent for Getty Images – Sunset Behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City

HM – Gary Hershorn – Independent for Getty Images – The Sun Passes Behind the EdgeNYC Observation Deck in New York City

EA- Gary Hershorn – Independent for Getty Images – Mammatus Clouds Over New York City

EA- Marc A. Hermann – Independent – A Squall Snows in Brooklyn

EA- Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – After Fire Mural

EA- Hiroke Masuike – NY Times – “Monobob”

EA – Julio Cortez – Associated Press – Camel Ride

Portrait

Danielle Alaimo buries her head into her disabled son, Malcolm, as she tries to get him ready for the day in Rochester, NY on 12.11.22. Malcolm was born with a uniquely severe case of Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) that has contributed to his Cerebral Palsy, Autism, and 33 sedated procedures, which includes a hemispherectomy. Alex Kent/ Independent

1st Place – Alex Kent – Independent – Restless Souls of Bucha

2nd Place – David Goldman – Associated Press – Rocket Attack Survivors

3rd Place – Saed Hindash – NJ Advance Media – Anchorman

HM – Seth Harrison – The Journal News – Farmers of Color

HM – Brian Branch-Price – Zuma Press Independent – AROD and Side Kick Destinee Ride On

EA – Edward Murray – NJ Advance Media – Prom!

EA – Saed Hindash – NJ Advance Media – Top wrestler

EA – Al Bello – Getty Images – Red Light Therapy

EA – Al Bello – Getty Images – Kelsie Whitmore

EA – Alejandra Villa- Loaroca – Newsday – The Damas Famiy

EA – Steven Pfost – Newsday – Egg Farmer

EA – Tim Hawk – NJ Advance Media – Under The Boardwalk

Animal

Police K9 dog seems to sense the sadness at a funeral for Police Officer William Mora at St Patrick’s Cathedral Jan. 28, 2022. Todd Maisel / Independent

1st – Todd Maisel – Independent – Mourning K9

2nd – John Roca – Independent for Newsday – Bubble Tabby

3rd – Adam Gray – SNWS – POM State of Mind

HM – Tim Hawk – NJ Advance Media – Frisbee

HM – Bruce Bennett – Getty Images – Open Wide

EA – Ed Quinn – Independent – Dog sleds

EA – Saed Hindash – NJ Advance Media – Running free

EA – Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – Hungry Herron

EA – Uli Seit – Independent – Birds of the same feather?

EA – Lloyd Mitchell – Independent – AMNewYork – Crystal

EA – Karsten Moran – Independent – Starling

EA – Julio Cortez – Associated Press – Love Birds

Sports Action

ZHANGJIAKOU, CHINA – FEBRUARY 14: Piotr Zyla of Team Poland competes during Men’s Ski jumping Trial Round For Competition on Day 10 of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at National Ski Jumping Centre on February 14, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China. Sarah Stier/Getty Images

1st Place – Sarah Stier – Getty Images – Ski Jumping

2nd Place – Bruce Bennett – Getty Images – Olympic Score

3rd Place – Michael Stobe – Independent – NYC Triathalon

HM – Sarah Stier – Getty images – Houston Rockets v Brooklyn Nets

HM – Elsa – Getty Images – Platform Dive

EA – Sarah Stier -Getty images – Beat the Streets

EA – Brad Penner – Independent – Elise Mertens

EA – Al Bello – Getty Images – Late Day Hurdles

EA – Sarah Stier -Getty images – 2022 TCS New York City Marathon

EA – Al Bello – Getty Images – Hair Raising Lift

EA – Robert Sabo – NY Post Independent – Stolen Homer

EA – Julio Cortez – Associated Press – Comebacker

EA – Sarah Stier -Getty images – 154th Belmont Stakes

EA – Al Bello – Getty Images – Bright Light Performance

Sports Feature

Parkland’s Elena Pursell (11) reacts along with her teammates after Maggie Smith, bottom left, blocked a tipped ball by Liberty’s Courtney Shire (3), and Liberty wasn’t able to keep the ball in play during the District 11 4A girls volleyball finals on Nov. 3, 2022. Saed Hindash/NJ Advance Media

1st Place – Saed Hindash – NJ Advance Media – Point earned

2nd Place – Bob Sabo – NY Post Independent – Rain Delay

3rd Place – Tim Hawk – NJ Advance Media – City of Brotherly Love

HM – Hiroko Masuike – New York Times – “A Glorious Goodbye”

HM – Bob Sabo – NY Post Independent – Fans Throw Beer

EA – Robert Deutsch – Independent – Vaiieva fails after drug scandal

EA – Jason Szenes – European Pressphoto Agency – MLB ALDS Cleveland Guardians at New York Yankees

EA – Elsa – Getty images – Winners and Losers

EA – Thomas A. Ferrara – Newsday – At the Track

EA – Thomas A. Ferrara – Newsday – Fouled into the Knee

EA- Bob Sabo – NY Post Independent – Play at the Plate

EA – Bruce Bennett – Getty Images – Salming’s Farewell

EA – Thomas A. Ferrara – Newsday – Home Opener Walkoff Win

EA – Al Bello – Getty Images – Big Lift

EA – Elsa – Getty Images – Serena Scream

Sports Picture Story

AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT – Toms River East squared off against New York’s Massapequa Coast Little League, a bout to determine who will go to the Little League World Series, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the A. Bartlett Giamatti Little League Leadership Training Center in Bristol, CT. New York’s Massapequa Coast Little League won the game to go onto the World Series. Rob Sabo/NY Post/Independent

1st Place – Bob Sabo – NY Post -Independent – And the Agony of Defeat

2nd Place – Al Bello – Getty Images – Jockey School

3rd Place – Bob Sabo – NY Post -Independent – Equestrian Dreams

HM- Brad Penner – Independent – 2022 US Open

HM – Elsa – Getty Images – World Cup Moments

Face of New York

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: James Davis and Trey Howard Fashion during New York Fashion Week near Johns place Lane in New York. on Monday, September 12, 2022. Davis is a clothing designer. Brian Branch-Price/Independent/Zuma Press

1st Place – Brian Branch-Price – Independent – Zuma Press -New York Fashion Week

2nd Place – Brian Branch-Price – Independent – Zuma Press – Bring in the Noise Bring in the Funk of july

3rd Place – Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – Luna’s Rides

HM – Adam Gray – SNWS – Pride Joy

HM – Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – Little Italy

EA- Alejandra Villa-Loroca – Newsday – Ray of Light

EA – Debbie Egan-Chin – Independent for Newsday – New Yorkers on Halloween night

EA – Adam Gray – SNWS – Rabbi Class Picture

EA – Marc A. Hermann – Independent – Safe Passage

EA – Aristide Economopoulos – Independent – Reyes & His Tattoo

EA – Hiroko Masuike – New York Times – “A Subway Dancer”

EA – Edmund Quinn – Independent – Singin’ in the Rain

MULTIMEDIA ENTRIES

Multimedia – Short Form (under 5 minutes)

FIRST PLACE – Andre Malok – NJ Advance Media

A look at the secret lives of laughing gulls, the bird-turned-villain at the Jersey Shore.

SECOND PLACE – Randee Post Daddona – Newsday – Oyster Bay Brewery hosts hard of hearing trivia night.

THIRD PLACE– Andre Malok – NJ Advance Media – Artist creates fragile, fleeting sculptures out of nature.

Honorable Mention – Steve Pfost – Newsday – Fire and chain saws: The fight to save LI’s wilderness.

Honorable Mention – Andre Malok – NJ Advance Media – Jersey Shore town uses predatory birds to control gulls on the beach and boardwalk.

Multimedia – Long Form (Over 5 minute

FIRST PLACE – Jon Farina- Independent

Meet the “Not Calm Hearts” – Four civilians’ mutual aid keeps the Ukrainians of Kharkiv alive

SECOND PLACE – Alejandra Villa-Loarca, Chris Ware, J. Conrad Williams, John Paraskevas (Photographers), Jeff Basinger(Producer) – Newsday – INSIDE INTERNAL AFFAIRS: 2-year investigation into Nassau, Suffolk police uncovered little accountability in 4 deaths, 4 serious

THIRD PLACE – Andre Malok – NJ Advance Media – Volunteers give migrating birds injured in N.J’s biggest city a second chance

Honorable Mention – Thomas A. Ferrara, J. Conrad Williams, Jr. Steven Pfost, William Perlman, Debbie Egan-Chin (Photographers), Jeff Basinger (Producer) – Newsday – Dunia Sibomana-Rodriguez: From tragedy to triumph

Honorable Mention – Randee Post Daddona & Thomas A. Ferrara – Newsday – Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Falaise and more Long Island connections to ‘The Godfather’

JUDGES

Still Photography Contest Judges

Angela Jimenez David Grunfeld Barbara Davidson

Angela Jimenez is visual storyteller based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she is a photo editor for The New York Times and does independent photography and video work. Angela has been doing projects and assignments for journalism outlets and non-profit organizations through her company, Angela Jimenez Photography, for over 20 years. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, she started her career interning at The Arizona Republic and the Newark Star-Ledger, then spend 15 years living and freelancing in New York City for the Ledger and The New York Times. She has crowd-funded and self-published two photo books: Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (2009), about the worker community of one of the oldest and largest lesbian-feminist gatherings in the world, and Racing Age (2017), a collection of essays and photographs about competitive masters track & field athletes age 60 and older. Racing Age won the Jury Prize at Photoville’s 2014 The Fence exhibit. In 2018-2019, with the support of an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, an exhibit of Racing Age toured senior centers in Minnesota accompanied by community engagement workshops taught by Angela. She has taught photojournalism & multimedia to graduate students in the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and to art majors at Nassau Community College. Her work has been honored by the Magenta Foundation, American Photography, Review Santa Fe and the Communication Arts Photo Annual, supported by grants from The Alexia Foundation student award, The Puffin Foundation and the Aspen Institute/Pluribus Project, and acquired into the permanent collection of the Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay & Lesbian Art.

David Grunfeld is the director of photography for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Prior to being named DOP, Grunfeld was a photo editor, photographer, video strategist, lead photographer and photo coach for the department since 1993. He was a staff photographer at the Syracuse Newspapers, photo editor at the Auburn Citizen and worked at his father’s weekly newspaper in Marathon, New York while in high school.

Grunfeld was part of the team that won two Pulitzers in 2005 for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, the Associate Press Managing Editor’s national Photo of the Year award, the National Press Photography Association Clifton Edom Award, which recognizes an individual’s ability to inspire and motivate members of the visual journalism community, the Associated Press Managing Editors, C.P. Liter Award for best of show for Louisiana and Mississippi, and numerous other awards.

Grunfeld was influenced by professors David Sutherland and Larry Mason at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse University, Grunfeld was a stringer for UPI, AP and interned at the Syracuse Newspapers. Once he retires, he hopes to go back to his hometown to make his own maple syrup.

Barbara Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award-winning photographer and director best known for her work on victims of gun violence in Los Angeles. Davidson is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow recipient and spent the year traveling across the United States making portraits of survivors of gun violence using an 8×10 film camera. 

A staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times until 2017, Barbara spent much of the past decade photographing women and children trapped in a culture of poverty and guns.

Barbara won global recognition for her 2011 project, “Caught in the Crossfire,” an intimate story of innocent victims trapped in Los Angeles’ deadly gang wars.  Rose Smith, was three months pregnant when she was hit by stray bullets on her way home from the market. One bullet just missed her unborn daughter — Miracle — who survived. Rose remains paralyzed. 

Barbara was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for the project. She also produced and directed a 30-minute documentary, Caught in the Crossfire: Victims of Gang Violence, which received the 2011 Emmy Award for New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming.

In her decade at the Los Angeles Times, she also covered the San Bernardino terrorist attack which earned a Staff Pulitzer Prize, in 2016, for Spot News. In 2014, she was awarded Pictures of The Year International’s award for Newspaper Photographer of the Year, for the second time, in part for her project on solitary confinement at Corcoran’s men’s prison in California.

Multimedia Contest Judges

Multimedia Judges Bob Sacha and Travis Fox

Bob Sacha is a director, cinematographer, editor, teacher, photographer and a collaborator on visual journalism projects. He created the video for projects that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, a National Emmy for New Approaches to News &  Documentary Programming. a Webby and the first gold medal ever given by the Society for News Design. He teamed up with Blue Chalk  as the the director of photography for the New York Times series, Living City, about  New York’s infrastructure.  BlindSight, a documentary short about a group of blind photographers that he directed, shot & produced had its world premiere at DOCNYC, the country’s largest documentary festival. He is currently an Associate Professor of Video Storytelling at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.  His new passion and focus is 360 Video/VR and volumetric capture for journalism.

Travis Fox is the director of the Visual Journalism department at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Fox most recently produced films for FRONTLINE on PBS. His work has also appeared on National Geographic, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times.

From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a senior video journalist at The Washington Post and was widely recognized as a pioneer of news video on the web. He covered such major stories as the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. In 2006, he won the first Emmy Award presented to a web video producer for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina. He was also the first person to win both the Editor of the Year and Videographer of the Year awards from the White House News Photographers Association in the same year. He has won dozens of National Press Photographers Association and Pictures of the Year International awards and has been nominated for a total of eight Emmy’s.

Fox has taught broadcast journalism at the CUNY J-School and multimedia filmmaking at Columbia University. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism.