BOP 2006 > Photo Editing Winners > Magazine Natural Disaster Opener
- 3rd Place
- TIME Magazine
- Photo Editing Team:
- Michele Stephenson, Director of Photography
- Judges' Comments
The disregard for loss of life and general unpreparedness defined the best work of this category.
There were amazingly few photographs of the actual tsunami coming ashore, and this is one of e best that I’ve seen. If the job of an opening spread is to immediately tell the reader what the story is about, then this does it big time.
Sea of Sorrow: With so few images of the actual tsunami, the use of this images as the open spread was what brought this page up to three.
An incredible rare image that was given the size it needed to succeed. Looking at the fact that not many images of the actual tsunami were captured, this offered the reader a fantastic look at this natural disaster.
The honorable mention pictures from Katrina, Rita, the Indonesian tsunami and the Pakistani earthquake were strong moments, but lacking the human pathos to rise to first, second or third place winners.
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