2017 NPOY Multimedia Finalists
2017 NPOY Single Multimedia – Sponsored by Vistek
(Listed in alphabetical order of title)
Iona Whipp
Michelle Berg / Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Saskatoon drag queen Iona Whipp, the performance alter ego of Aron DoSouto, is funny, glamorous and over-the-top, but she takes her art very seriously and takes great care to remember those who came before. Aron DoSouto applies makeup during his three-hour transformation into drag queen Iona Whipp.
MYTORONTO
Anne-Marie Jackson / Toronto Star
A look at the inaugural MYTORONTO photo contest, which placed disposable cameras in the hands of people who have experienced homelessness and ask them to take images of the city from their perspective. Each of the top 13 winners received a $200 cash prize. The cover prize was $500. A calendar was produced and vendors were given permission to sell them on the streets. Participants buy calendars for $10 and sell them for $20, often putting money into the hands of those who needed it most.
Women’s March
David Zelikovitz / Maclean’s
Donna Ferrato, 67, is a photographer, photojournalist and activist who’s been documenting women for more than three decades. Her work, as she notes, focuses on “the stuff that really challenges women,” including domestic violence, reproductive rights, work and employment issues. Ferrato’s groundbreaking series on domestic violence resulted in her seminal book Living with the Enemy, in the early 1990s, and helped lead to the Violence Against Women Act. She’s photographed numerous protests over the course of her career, and she agreed to be behind the lens again for Maclean’s at the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21, 2017.
2017 NPOY Team Multimedia – Sponsored by Thomson Reuters
(Listed in alphabetical order of title)
Caged by Canada
Videographer, Editor and Producer: Anne-Marie Jackson
Illustrator: Ainsley Ashby-Snyder
Reporter: Brendan Kennedy
An investigation into Canada’s immigration detention system and the people who end up stuck in deportation limbo for years, including Kashif Ali the longest serving detainee who has been held in a maximum-security jail for seven years waiting to be deported. Down the hall Ebrahim Toure has never been charged or convicted of any crime but also sits behind bars because the government cannot deport him. A failed refugee claimant, Toure is one of the hundreds of unwanted immigrants Canada has locked up indefinitely across the country, many in maximum-security jails rather than special immigration detention centres.
Michelle Kungl’s Incredible Journey
Videographer: Carlos Osorio
Editor: Anne-Marie Jackson
Producers: Carlos Osorio and Anne-Marie Jackson
Reporter: Laurie Monsebraaten
From the moment she was born, Michelle Kungl has been fighting — for her life, for independence, for every breath. She has battled every obstacle with a warrior’s spirit, but now, as an adult, she is up against her most daunting barrier yet: Ontario’s rule-bound social assistance system.
Nalongo
Director: Brent Foster
Director of Photography: Pawel Dwulit
Producer: Tammy Foster
Edited by: Peter Schnobb and Brent Foster
Title Design and Animation: Reactiv
Sound Design: Defacto Sound
Colorist: Dmitry Kuznetsov
After a lifelong career as a government midwife, Mary “Nalongo” Kamya retired from her job and set up a clinic in her own home in the rural district of Lutengo, Uganda.
Nalongo (which means the mother of twins) now delivers babies in her rural community and works hard to educate the women she lives amongst through teaching them family planning and women’s rights as a mission to empower them and shape the future of her village.
The list of all 2017 NPOY nominees.
