POYi Posts Winning Entries for Its Newspaper Division Contest (And PDN Names the Photographers)

February 11, 2014 Marco | Editor

By David Walker

©Taslima Akhter

Taslima Akhter of Bangladesh has won first prize in Spot News category of the Newspaper Division in the Picture of the Year International (POYi) competition, and Niclas Hammarström has won top prize for the General News category.

POYi organizers have not yet announced the names of the winners, pending completion of judging in all divisions and categories of the competition on February 25. But POYi is posting the winning entries on its web site as they are selected, enabling visitors to the site to figure out who they are. (The Newspaper …read more

Via: PDN Pulse

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