2013 National Pictures of the Year Nominees

 

CANADA’S TOP PHOTOJOURNALISTS RECOGNIZED

Great photos tell stories. They transcend language and cultural barriers and speak to basic human nature. A great photo is a snapshot of time that can reveal the world’s most profound tales of heartbreak, joy and reality with one single image.

The News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) is pleased to recognize the excellence represented in submissions by 128 of Canada’s outstanding photojournalists in announcing the nominations in the eighth annual National Pictures of the Year (NPOY) awards competition.

More than 1150 images from across Canada were entered in this year’s competition, representing a spectacular body of work.

The winners will be announced during the 2013 National Pictures of the Year Gala event which will be held May 24, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The NPOY judging by Lana Slezic, Louie Palu and Ken Faught was live-streamed online so photographers and the public could view the process.

“We decided to live-stream the judging process this year for greater transparency and to allow photographers the opportunity to learn from watching their work being judged” said Ben Nelms, Vice President of NPAC.

 

 

 

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2013 NPOY Judging

 

The 2013 NPOY judging has been completed (and the live coverage has ended). A big “thank you” to the judges Lana Slezic, Louie Palu and Ken Faught.

Moe Doiron, The Globe and Mail’s photo editor, organized and moderated the judging.

Ryan Jackson, staff photographer and multimedia producer extraordinaire (see his blog) for the Edmonton Journal, was responsible for the live video streaming and other technical magic.

 

Note: The five-hour video (above) has been edited to remove the several pauses that were used to hide the winning pictures, the lunch break, coffee breaks, etc.

 

 


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Photographer’s Q&A – David Lipnowski

Winnipeg-based photographer David Lipnowski started his photography career as the photo editor for his student newspaper at the University of Manitoba. He is currently a commercial photographer shooting portraits, corporate and personal events, family portraits, weddings and more.

A year ago on January 1, 2013, David started a personal project he called the 365 Portrait Project in which he promised to produce a new portrait each and every day throughout the year.

“Every single day during 2013 I will make one high quality portrait,” he vowed. “I am aiming to produce high quality portraits that look like they could come straight out of a magazine. I want the quality to stay consistently high throughout the year, with a broad range of photo subjects.”

His web site: www.davidlipnowski.com

 

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01/01/2013 – Salwinder Singh – 4:19PM – Winnipeg – I was a little stressed about the first portrait of the year as I had made tentative plans to photograph someone I knew but that fell through at the last minute. So I started wandering around outside with my girlfriend.

Shortly after leaving my front door, I saw a taxi waiting to pick up someone. I noticed the driver’s beard first and I explained my project to him. He was glad to help out and I’m happy with the first portrait of this project.

My girlfriend held a homemade beauty dish with a hotshoe flash on his windshield while he sat in the car.
EXIF: f4.5 1/160sec ISO100 @ 70mm

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Mike Ridewood – Olympic Curling

Hockey is considered to be the iconic Canadian sport. But in many ways, curling is the ultimate Canadian sport. Curling at the Olympics has become the Holy Grail for Canadian curlers.

At international curling events, photographers from the United States seek out Canadian photographers. “How does this game work? Are all the players important? How does the scoring work?”

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Canada’s women’s curling team (left to right) Jan Betker, Marcia Gudereit, Joan McCusker and Sandra Schmirler celebrate their gold medal victory over Denmark at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. (Photo – Mike Ridewood/COC)

From Nagano 1998 to Vancouver 2010, I’ve seen the highs and lows in the gold medal curling game.
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