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 8,500 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 full, and the winning images,
can be found here.
Picture Editors' Awards
20 June 2007
