NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA RECOGNIZES TOP PHOTOJOURNALISTS OF 2013

The News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) is pleased to announce the winners of its seventh annual National Pictures of the Year (NPOY) awards competition, held during the National Pictures of the Year Gala event held May 24, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Over the past eight years, NPAC and its generous sponsors have awarded over $100,000 in prize money through the NPOY, making it Canada’s most prestigious and richest photojournalism awards program.

The National Pictures Of The Year awards competition was created by NPAC to recognize excellence in Canadian photojournalism. NPAC is a volunteer-run, non-profit association of professional and student photojournalists in Canada. NPAC celebrates and champions quality and ethical photography in journalism.

Photograph of the Year – Jordan Verlage/The Canadian Press – Kevin Yeats hits the water with his cat Momo after narrowly escaping his sinking truck through the rear window after the Highwood River overflowed its banks in the town of High River, Alberta, June 20, 2013.

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The nominees for 2013 Student Photographer of the Year are (in alphabetical order) Justin Chin, Guillaume Nolet and Hannah Yoon. All three are from the photojournalism program at Loyalist College in Belleville.

The winner will be announced at the NPOY Awards Ceremony in Vancouver on May 24, 2014, during the annual NPAC Photojournalism Conference.

Each of these three portfolios includes nine single images followed by one picture story.

Justin Chin

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