The 2007 Picture Editors’ Awards were named at the Great Hall of Guildhall, the 14th year that the City of London has hosted the ceremony, on the evening of Wednesday 20th June. The Awards were presented by veteran war photographer and two times Pulitzer Prize Winner Horst Faas.

The Awards, supported by Getty Images, Fujifilm, the City of London, Action Images, Olympus, picturehouse, and Daymen International, attracted more than 8500 entries from photographers across the UK and Ireland

Cathal McNaughton of the Press Association took the ultimate accolade – Fujifilm Photographer of the Year. He also won the Olympus Royal Photographer of the Year, and completed his hat trick with the Olympus Nature and Environment title. PA colleague Rebecca Naden won the Action Images Sports Picture of the Year Award, and PA’s Martin Rickett was named Action Images UK & Ireland News Photographer of the Year.

The Sunday Herald and the Guardian were jointly named Getty Images Newspaper of the Year. The Sunday Herald Magazine was awarded Getty Images Newspaper Magazine of the Year. For the first time Getty Images made awards recognising the contribution of electronic publishing. BBC News was named Website of the Year; The Sun, and the Newbury Weekly News share the Newspaper Website of the Year title.

The Mail on Sunday’s David Shopland took the Action Images Sports Photographer of the Year Award.

The picturehouse Photo Essay Photographer of the Year went to Peter Nicholls of the Times for his work in Lebanon.

Getty Images Julian Finney was named the City of London Young Photographer of the Year, and Daniel Berehulak, also of Getty Images, won Fujifilm Foreign News Photographer of the Year.

Mark Waugh of the Manchester Evening News took the Fujifilm Regional Newspapers Photographer of the Year award. Irish freelance Eamon Ward took the Fujifilm Local Newspapers Photographer of the Year award for his work for the Clare People.

Harry Borden, represented by the Bonakdar Cleary agency, took the picturehouse Portrait Photographer of the Year Award for a striking image of Baroness Thatcher.

Results in can be found here.

Picture Editors' Awards
20 June 2007