Globe, Herald dominate Boston Press Photographers awards

The Boston Globe and Boston Herald have won the most awards in the 2008 Boston Press Photographers Association competition.

The Globe was honored 28 times, including eight first-place awards among 15 categories. The Boston Herald was recognized 12 times, with two first-place awards.

Other Massachusetts newspapers honored included the MetroWest Daily News of Framingham, Mass.; the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass.; and The Sun of Lowell, Mass.

The Globe’s John Tlumacki’s “Daddy, don’t leave me” – a shot of a young boy standing next to a row of soldiers – won picture of the year and first place in the general news category. Tlumacki won five awards in all.

Globe photographers also took first in the spot news, portrait/personality, pictorial, animal, team, multimedia, and feature categories. Thirteen Globe photographers were recognized, with two first-place awards for Bill Greene and two for Suzanne Kreiter. Essdras Suarez was honored twice, taking first once.

The Herald had seven photographers recognized in the contest. Faith Ninivaggi was honored twice, including a first-place award for sports picture story. Angela Rowlings was also honored twice, taking first in the EMS/fire category.

MetroWest’s Ken McGagh was recognized five times and finished first in the sports feature category.

The Ledger’s Greg Derr was recognized twice.

The complete list of winners follows:

Photographer of the Year
Brian Snyder, Reuters

Picture of the Year
John Tlumacki, The Boston Globe, “Daddy, Don’t Leave Me”

Spot News
(1) Dina Rudick, Boston Globe, “Green Line Wreck”
(2) Ken McGagh, MetroWest Daily News of Framingham, Mass., “Rescue at Icy Pickerel Pond”
(3) Faith Ninivaggi, Boston Herald, “Surrender”
(4) George Rizer, Boston Globe, “Swat Team Enters”
(5) George Rizer, Boston Globe, “Bank Demo 1”

General News
(1) John Tlumacki, Boston Globe, “Daddy, Don’t Leave Me”
(2) John Tlumacki, Boston Globe, “After the Ice Storm”
(3) Justin Ide, Harvard News Office, “Double Threat”
(4) John Wilcox, Boston Herald, “Another Funeral”
(5) Mark Garfinkel, Boston Herald, “Family of Victim”

Feature
(1) Suzanne Kreiter, Boston Globe, “Last Goodbyes”
(2) Pat Greenhouse, Boston Globe, “Alzheimer’s”
(3) David Ryan, Boston Globe, “Delicate Touch”

Sports Action
(1) Jim Rogash, Getty Images, “Nick of Time”
(2) Matt Stone, Boston Herald, “Defying Gravity”
(3) Mark Thomson, freelance, “Backstroke”
(4) Bill Greene, Boston Globe, “Happy feet”
(5) John Wilcox, Boston Herald, “Tackled”

Sports Feature
(1) Ken McGagh, MetroWest Daily News, “Perfect ending”
(2) Matthew West, Boston Herald, “Disfavor”
(3) Cheryl Senter, freelance, “Running High”
(4) Matthew Stone, Boston Herald, “My Ball”
(5) Jim Davis, Boston Globe, “Autographs”

Portrait/Personality
(1) Essdras Suarez, Boston Globe, “Breathless”
(2) Dominic Chavez, freelance, “AIDS orphans”
(3) Rose Lincoln, freelance, “War Hero”
(4) Ken McGagh, MetroWest Daily News, “Lick of Spring”
(5) Lisa Hornak, Boston Herald, “Amanda’s Attic”

Pictorial
(1) Bill Greene, Boston Globe, “Fall Back”
(2) Yoon Byun, Boston Globe, “Regatta”
(3) Essdras Suarez, Boston Globe, “A Golden City Moment”
(4) David Kamerman, Boston Globe, “Green Wake”
(5) Greg Derr, Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass.

News Picture Story
(1) Brian Snyder, Reuters, “Clinton Campaign”
(2) John Tlumacki, Boston Globe, “Off to War”
(3) John Tlumacki, Boston Globe, “Ice Age”
(4) Brian Snyder, Reuters, “McCain Campaign”

Feature Picture Story
(1) Justin Ide, Harvard News Office
(2) Dominic Chavez, freelance
(3) Angela Rowlings, Boston Herald

Sports Picture Story
(1) Faith Ninivaggi, Boston Herald, “Greyhounds”
(2) Jim Davis, Boston Globe, “Boston Celtics”
(3) John Tlumacki, Boston Globe, “On the Charles”
(4) John Wilcox, Boston Globe, “Golden Gloves”
(5) Jim Davis, Boston Globe, “Autographs”

Animal
(1) Suzanne Kreiter, Boston Globe, “The Hoverers”
(2) Greg Derr, Patriot Ledger, “Marsh Dance”
(3) Ken McGagh, MetroWest Daily News, “Dog Resuscitated”
(4) Rose Lincoln, freelance, “Tangled Up In You”
(5) David Ryan, Boston Globe, “Bird’s Eye View”

EMS/Fire
(1) Angela Rowlings, Boston Herald, “Steeple Fire”
(2) Ken McGagh, MetroWest, “Teens Rescued from Icy Pond”
(3) Tory Germann, The Sun of Lowell, Mass.
(4) David Kamerman, Boston Globe, “Sun and Smoke”
(5) David Ryan, Boston Globe, “Smokey Dusk”

Politics
(1) Stephan Savoia, Associated Press, “Last Hoorah”
(2) Brian Snyder, Reuters, “Wave”
(3) Matt Stone, Boston Herald, “Giant George”
(4) Stephan Savoia, AP, “Obama Women”
(5) Stephan Savoia, AP, “Victory Speech”

Team
Mark Wilson, Bill Greene, John Tlumacki, Suzanne Kreiter, Yoon Byun; Boston Globe; “Frozen Peril”

Multimedia
Bill Greene, Boston Globe, “Extra Day”

The item above was written, at least in part, from published reports by Jen Slothower, a graduate student at the Northeastern University School of Journalism and a news staff coordinator for the Bulletin.