Free Press photographers nominated for national awards
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The work of two Winnipeg Free Press photographers have been nominated for a prestigious national award.
John Woods has been nominated by the News Photographers of Canada for Photojournalist of the Year while Mike Deal has been nominated for Best Feature photo for a picture he took of a woman celebrating her 100th birthday.
Woods was also nominated for Best Social Issues photo for a photograph he took of Somali immigrants for The Canadian Press. It is the second nomination in as many years for Deal.
“The stories that our outstanding team of photographers are able to tell are consistently worth more than a thousand words,” Free Press Editor Paul Samyn said Wednesday.
“I am delighted that the remarkable journalistic eye that John and Mike bring to every assignment has been recognized by these nominations.”
“The photojournalism community in Canada is pretty tight, but the competition is fierce with all that talent,” said Mike Aporius, Free Press photo and multimedia editor.
“John and Mike are consistently at the top of their game, so it’s fantastic to see them recognized for that by an organization we as visual journalists hold in such high regard.”
Deal called it a great honour to be nominated.
“As far as my photo is concerned, it simply falls into the old photojournalist adage: ‘Go early and stay late,'” he said.
“I managed to get to the event well beforehand and was able to be in a position for when the first birthday celebrant arrived. I was really lucky that she took the centre position.”
NPAC’s award competition, the largest in the country, received more than 2,000 photographs this year from photojournalists at publications from across the country.
The winners will be announced at a gala in Toronto on April 28. The photographs will also be featured at an exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver from April 9 to May 4, and then as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival at First Canadian Place in Toronto from May 7 to 19.