| 24/03/06
Charles Kennedy presents the 2006 Picture Editors' Awards
The Picture Editors' Awards were founded thirteen
years ago to recognise and reward the very best of photographic
journalism throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. They are made
possible by funding from BG Group, the global natural gas exploration
and production business, and Getty Images, the leading provider
of photographic and film imagery to media around the world. Additional
substantial support comes from the City of London, Fujifilm, and
Diageo.
The 2006 Awards were presented by Charles Kennedy
MP. For the first time, all images submitted to the 2006 Awards,
more than will appear on pictureawards.net, the Picture Editors'
Awards web site. This gallery is a unique and remarkable view of
the year in pictures; a showcase for the depth of talent in press
photography.
The ultimate accolade of the 2006 Awards, BG Group
Photographer of the Year, goes to Bryan O'Brien of the Irish Times,
the first time the title has crossed the Irish Sea.
The Sunday Herald was voted Getty Images Newspaper
of the Year, the second success in this category for the Glasgow
based broadsheet. The Sunday Times Magazine was awarded the Getty
Images Newspaper Magazine of the Year.
Colin Lane, Liverpool Daily Post & Echo, was named
Getty Images Regional Newspaper Photographer of the Year, and the
Getty Images Photo Essay Award goes to Andrew Parsons of the Press
Association. This was a keenly contested and hugely popular category,
with entries up a remarkable 147% on last year. Andrew's PA colleague,
Phil Noble, is BG Group Sports photographer of the Year.
Among the single image categories, Karwai Tang of
the Alpha Press Agency took the Fujifilm Royal Photographer of the
Year title.
Ben Stansall, the Kent News and freelance photographer,
is the new Diageo Young Photographer of the Year. The 2005 winner,
Kieran Dodds, of the Glasgow Evening Times, travelled to Zambia
for his Alan Harper Bursary Project, part of his prize. His remarkable
pictures of eight million migrating fruit bats have just won him
a coveted World Press Photo Award.
Full details of all the Award winners, and all entries
we received this year, can be found on our website, pictureawards.net.
Images from the Awards' ceremony will appear on our site over the
next few days.
Ends.
Picture Editors' Awards 2006
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