Pictures of the Year International 79
The Winners List

POY was virtually judged Feb. 9 to Feb. 28, 2022, from Smith Forum in the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.

We are honored to announce the winners. The awards recognize the best in the field of photojournalism in 2021.

The credits appear as they were submitted. Please review the list to make sure the credit and affiliation appears as you wish. Please send updates to: info@poyi.org.

Pictures of the Year International is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and the Missouri School of Journalism.

NEWS DIVISION | SPORTS DIVISION | REPORTAGE DIVISION | DOCUMENTARY DIVISION | EDITING DIVISION

NEWS DIVISION

Category	Winners
PORTRAIT (singles)
First Place	Nicolò Filippo Rosso, Independent, “Prayer”
Finalist	Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, “Anya Taylor-Joy”
Award of Excellence	Christian K. Lee, Independent, “Damillah and Skylar Lane”
Award of Excellence	Scott McIntyre, Independent, “By the Beach”
Award of Excellence	Lynsey Addario, Independent, Untitled
PORTRAIT SERIES
First Place	Damon Winter, The New York Times, “When it Costs $53,000 to Vote”
Finalist	Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times, “A Year in Film”
Award of Excellence	Christian K. Lee, Independent, “Armed Doesn’t Mean Dangerous”
Award of Excellence	Joshua Bickel, The Columbus Dispatch, “The Descendants of Hope”
Award of Excellence	Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, “Zohra, Afghanistan’s First All-Female Orchestra”
SPOT NEWS
First Place	J. Scott Applewhite, Associated Press, “Guns Drawn”
Finalist	Konstantinos Tsakalidis, Independent, “Woman from Evia”
Finalist	Ashley Gilbertson, Independent, “Officer Goodman”
Finalist	Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call, “House Chamber of January 6th”
Award of Excellence	Ohad Zwigenberg, Haaretz, “Israel Palestinians”
Award of Excellence	Steven M. Falk, Philadelphia Daily News & Philadelphia Inquirer, “Father’s Rage”
Award of Excellence	Mohammed Talatene, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, “2021 Israel–Palestine Crisis”
Award of Excellence	Win McNamee, Getty Images, “Senate Chamber January 6”
Award of Excellence	Victoria Razo, Independent, “Border Patrol Agent Detaining a Haitian Man”
COMMUNITY AWARENESS AWARD
First Place	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle, “Evicted in Fresno”
GENERAL NEWS
First Place	Fazry Ismail, European Pressphoto Agency Malaysia, “One Year Coronavirus Outbreak Hit Malaysia”
Finalist	Jessica Phelps, San Antonio Express-News, “Saying Goodbye”
Finalist	Spencer Platt, Getty Images, “Peg”
Award of Excellence	SL Shanth Kumar, The Times of India, “Chilling in Floods”
Award of Excellence	Jan Grarup, NOOR Photo, Untitled
Award of Excellence	Nicolò Filippo Rosso, Independent, “To Be Reborn”
LOCAL NEWS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune, “Duty to Mend Regret and Heartbreak”
Finalist	J. Conrad Williams Jr., Newsday, “A Hero’s Farewell”
Finalist	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle, “A Mother’s Last Hope”
Finalist	Angela Rowlings, Independent, “Boston’s First Black, First Female Mayor”
Award of Excellence	Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune, “The killing of Daunte Wright”
Award of Excellence	Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press, “Oxford Mourns”
DAILY LIFE (singles)
First Place	Pontus Orre, Independent, “Red”
Finalist	Carsten Snejbjerg, Independent, “Cow Concert”
Finalist	Jessica Rinaldi, The Boston Globe, “101-year-old Lobsterwoman”
Finalist	Marco Ugarte, Associated Press, “Mexico Marijuana”
Award of Excellence	Kirill Kudryavtsev, Agence France-Presse, “Space on the Earth”
Award of Excellence	Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press, “Separating Love”
Award of Excellence	Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press, “Puddle Jumper”
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, LOCAL
First Place	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle
Finalist	Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune

SPORTS DIVISION

Category	Winners
SPORTS ACTION
First Place	Brandon Magnus, AMB Sports + Entertainment, “Splatter”
Finalist	Ramsey Cardy, Sportsfile, “Fading Light”
Finalist	Kai Oliver Pfaffenbach, Reuters, “Above the Clouds”
Finalist	Carlos Gonzalez, Star Tribune, “Blocked”
Finalist	Martin Sidorjak, Independent, “A Broken Snake on the Outskirts of Prague”
Finalist	Scott Serio, Eclipse Sportswire, “The Savaged Turns The Table”
Award of Excellence	Ronald W. Erdrich, Abilene Reporter-News, “Gate Crasher”
Award of Excellence	Andrej Isakovic, Agence France-Presse, Untitled
SPORTS LIFE
First Place	Qiang Li, Independent, “Gaze”
First Place (2 of 2)	Bruce Bennett, Getty Images, “Jubilation”
Finalist	Patrick Smith, Getty Images, “Rise”
Finalist	Alain Schroeder, Rea and Hemis, Untitled
Finalist	Christophe Ena, Associated Press, “Cycling and Vaccines”
Finalist	Michael G. Seamans, The Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal, “Canoeniverse”
Award of Excellence	Qiang Li, Independent, “Ice Hockey Lovers”
Award of Excellence	Dean Treml, Independent, Untitled
SPORTS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Thomas Morel-Fort, Independent, “FALLOU DIOP, the Unpredicted Hope of the Racetrack”
Finalist	Jordi Cohen, Independent, “Faith in Bullfighting”
Finalist	Michal Novotny, Independent, “Kyrgyz Rugby on Horses”
Finalist	Alain Schroeder, Rea and Hemis, “Muay Thai Kids”
OLYMPIC ACTION
First Place	Patrick Smith, Getty Images, “Allez”
Finalist	Joel Marklund, Bildbyrån, “Kaede Maegawa”
Finalist	Vegard Grøtt, Bildbyrån, “BMX”
Finalist	Jonne Roriz, Independent, “Finding Nemo”
Award of Excellence	Kai Oliver Pfaffenbach, Reuters, “Splish Splash”
Award of Excellence	Ryan Pierse, Getty Images, “Tokyo Heat”
Award of Excellence	Ramsey Cardy, Sportsfile, “Spray”
Award of Excellence	Fei Maohua, Xinhua News Agency, “Shocking Moment”
Award of Excellence	Matthias Hangst, Getty Images, “Hit”
OLYMPIC LIFE
First Place	Pim Ras, AD Sportwereld, “A Kiss of Comfort”
Finalist	Francisco Seco, Associated Press, “Athletics Japan Olympics”
Finalist	Ramsey Cardy, Sportsfile, “Record Breaker”
Finalist	Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press, “Emotional Retirement”
Award of Excellence	Oli Scarff, Agence France-Presse, Untitled
Award of Excellence	Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters, “Tokyo Theatre”
Award of Excellence	Mohd Rasfan, Agence France-Presse, Untitled
Award of Excellence	Elsa Garrison, Getty Images, “Gold Medal Dreams”
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
First Place	Dean Mouhtaropoulos, Getty Images
Finalist	Patrick Smith, Getty Images
Award of Excellence	Joel Marklund, Bildbyrån
Award of Excellence	Vegard Grøtt, Bildbyrån
Award of Excellence	Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean

REPORTAGE DIVISION

Category	Winners
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY (singles)
First Place	Brent Stirton, Independent, Untitled
Finalist	Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press, “Under the Volcano”
Award of Excellence	Arturo Rodriguez, Independent, “Cumbre Vieja Volcano”
Award of Excellence	Mario Tama, Getty Images, “Ice in the Port”
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY PICTURE STORY
First Place	Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press, “Under the Volcano”
Finalist	Kacper Kowalski, Panos Pictures, “Event Horizon”
Finalist	Simone Tramonte, Independent, “NET-ZERO TRANSITION”
Award of Excellence	Brent Stirton, Independent, “Wildmeat - Sustainability, Economy and Zoonotics”
Award of Excellence	Giacomo d’Orlando, Independent, “Nemo’s Garden”
Award of Excellence	Dan Balilty, Independent, “Where Boars Hog the Streets”
ENVIRONMENTAL VISION AWARD
First Place	Kristof Vadino, Independent, “Aoyate”
Award of Excellence	Brent Stirton, Independent, “Wild Meat - Sustainability, Economy, Conservation and Zoonotics”
Award of Excellence	Majid Hojati, Independent, “Earth Silence”
ISSUE REPORTING PICTURE STORY
First Place	Cinzia Canneri, Independent, “Women’s Bodies as a Battlefield”
Finalist	Steven G. Smith, Independent, “A Daughter’s Long Goodbye, A Caregiver’s Journey”
Finalist	Nicolò Filippo Rosso, Independent, “Exodus”
Finalist	Adrees Latif, Reuters, “Immigration Crisis Along U.S. - Mexico Border”
Award of Excellence	Davide Bertuccio, Independent, “The Dust of the Forest”
IMPACT 2021: COVID 19, YEAR 2 (Picture Story)
First Place	Francesco Reffo, Independent, “Face of Our Time”
Finalist	Dan Balilty, Independent, “Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities During Covid”
Award of Excellence	Raphael Alves, Independent, “Insulae”
Award of Excellence	Kieran Doherty, Independent, “A Corona Diary”
NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS PICTURE STORY
First Place	Nicolò Filippo Rosso, Independent, “Consumed by Grief”
Finalist	Jim Huylebroek, Independent, “Inside the Fall of Kabul”
Finalist	Go Nakamura, Independent, “Migrants Cross Rio Grande into the U.S. under cover of Darkness"
Finalist	Noah Berger, Associated Press, “Western Wildfires”
Award of Excellence	Max Whittaker, Independent, “Fighting the Caldor Fire”
WORLD UNDERSTANDING AWARD
First Place	Fabio Bucciarelli, Independent, “The Dream”
Finalist	Alessio Mamo, Independent, “Uncovering Iraq”
Finalist	Tariq Zaidi, Independent, “Sin Salida (No Way Out)”
DAILY LIFE PICTURE STORY
First Place	Daniele Vita, Independent, “Bagnanti”
Finalist	Gabrielle Lurie, San Francisco Chronicle, “Bre-Anna: Evicted at Age 10”
Finalist	Yarin Trotta del Vecchio, Independent, “Nisida - The Island of Youth Suspended”
Award of Excellence	Ismail Ferdous, Agence VU’, “Sea Beach”
Award of Excellence	Nora Lorek, Panos Pictures, “Pandemic Baby Boom”
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, INTERNATIONAL
First Place	Lynsey Addario, Independent
Finalist	Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times
Award of Excellence	David Guttenfelder, Independent
Award of Excellence	Matias Delacroix, Associated Press

DOCUMENTARY DIVISION

Category	Winners
DOCUMENTARY NEWS REPORTING
First Place	Yousur Al-Hlou, Neil Collier and Soliman Hijjy, The New York Times Video Team, “‘So They Knew We Existed’: Palestinians Film War in Gaza”
Finalist	Ed Ou, Katie G. Nelson, Meg Felling, Shane O’Neill and Kassie Bracken, The New York Times Video Team, “In the Middle of Chaos: Living with Daunte Wright Protests at the Front Door”
Finalist	Damir Šagolj and Danis Tanović, Freelance, “When We Were Them”
Finalist	Mauricio Rodriguez and Nadia Sussman, ProPublica, “Buy, Borrow, Die: How America’s Ultrawealthy Stay That Way”
Award of Excellence	Alexandra Eaton, Christoph Koettl, Quincy G. Ledbetter, Victoria Simpson and Aaron Byrd, The New York Times Video Team, “Searching for the Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People”
Award of Excellence	Nilo Tabrizy, Ainara Tiefenthäler, Débora Souza Silva, Elie M. Khadra and Shane O’Neill, The New York Times Video Team, “From Rodney King to George Floyd: Reliving the Scars of Police Violence”
Award of Excellence	Isabelle Niu, Danielle Miller, Khyber Khan and Nicole Fineman, The New York Times Video Team, “‘We Are Here Alone’: An Afghan Translator’s Plea for Help”
DOCUMENTARY DAILY LIFE
First Place	Justine Simons, Corinne May Botz, Lauren Knapp, Daniela Mileykovsky, Marianna LaFollette, Carl Mandelbaum, Paul Moakley and Rebecca Teitel, TIME, “Milk Factory”
Finalist	Justine Simons, Kaitlyn Schwalje, Alex Wolf Lewis, Katharina Stroh, Alexander Heringer, Rebecca Stern, Justin Levy, Johnes, Meryl Goldsmith, Dana Nachman, Cheryl Dillard Staurulakis, Luciano Vignola and Filipp V. Korostishevsky, TIME, “Snowy”
Finalist	Sandy Hooper and Jasper Colt, USA Today, “As U.S. Mourns 500,000 COVID-19 Deaths, a Family Says Goodbye to Their Mother, Their ‘Rock’”
Award of Excellence	Michael Downey, Independent, “The Village Where People Talk in Bird Language”
DOCUMENTARY JOURNALISM
First Place	Ed Ou, Will N. Miller, Ian Urbina, Raphaela Morais, William Ryan Fritch, Soundstripe, Will N.Miller, Chris Michael, Jess Gormley, Ekaterina Ochagavia and Lindsay Poulton, The Outlaw Ocean Music Project/The Guardian, “Unsafe Passage”
Finalist	Ed Ou, Will N. Miller, Nirma Hasty, Daniella Silva, William Ryan Fritch, Catherine Kim, Madeleine Haeringer, Conor Hanna, Yohance Brown, Eric Pfeifer and Mike Mazzotta, NBC News, “The Intersection: Fatherhood at the heart of George Floyd Square”
Finalist	Andreas Haubjerg, Freelance, “The Game”
Finalist	Kathleen Flynn, Spencer Bakalar and Justine Simons, TIME, “Notice of Eviction”
Award of Excellence	Mauricio Rodriguez, Elizabeth Weill, Nadia Sussman and Almudena Toral, ProPublica, “Unlivable Oasis”
Award of Excellence	Julia Wall, Jessica Koscielniak, Carli Brosseau, Robyn Tomlin, Scott Sharpe, T. Christian Miller, Almudena Toral, Sohail Al–Jamie, Mauricio Rodriguez Pons, Sylvester Allen Jr and Berk Ozturk, The Raleigh News & Observer in partnership with ProPublica, “Sound of Judgment”
DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLER OF THE YEAR
First Place	Ed Ou, Independent
Award of Excellence	Zoeann Murphy, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence	Raul Gallego Abellan, Independent

EDITING

Category	Winners
NEWSPAPER PICTURE EDITING
First Place	Kevin Martin, Star Tribune, “Trump-incited Mob Storms U.S. Capitol”
Finalist	Jeffrey Furticella (Photos by Kholood Eid; Story by Julia Carmel), The New York Times, “What is Life Without Burlesque?”
Finalist	Jeffrey Henson Scales, The New York Times, “The Year in Pictures 2021”
Award of Excellence	Tiffanie Graham (Photos by Brenda Ann Kenneally; Story by Jessica Bennett), The New York Times, “The Primal Scream: Three American Mothers, On the Brink”
Award of Excellence	Bronwen Latimer (Photos by Salwan Georges, Michael S. Williamson, Philip Cheung, Matt Roth, Ramsay de Give, Carolyn Van Houten, Kimberly Workman, Paul Ratje, Elaine Cromie and Rachel Wisniewski), The Washington Post, “Covid Winter”
Award of Excellence	Kevin Martin (Local Photos by Elizabeth Flores, Jerry Holt and Jeff Wheeler; Olympic wire photos; Stories by Rachel Blount; Zoë Jackson, James Walsh and Jim Souhan; Design by Stacie Kammerling, Josh Jones and Steve Zimmerman), Star Tribune, “St. Paul Native Suni Lee Brings Home Olympic Gold”
Award of Excellence	Nicole Fruge (Photos by Gabrielle Lurie; Story by Heather Knight), The San Francisco Chronicle, “A Mother’s Last Hope”
MAGAZINE PICTURE EDITING
First Place	Kathy Moran (Photos and Story by Laurent Ballesta), National Geographic Magazine, “They Spent 28 Days under the Sea—and Found Another Earth”
Finalist	Kristen Geisler, Shannon Simon, Rory Walsh and David La Spina (Photos by Tyler Chan, Ashley Peña, Mosijah Roye, Mamadi Doumbouya, Sara Messinger, Ahmed Gaber, Malike Sidibe, Emmersen Tormey, Myles Loftin, Nadine Zhan, Kana Motojima, Victor Llorente, Jasmine Clarke, Steven Molina Contreras and Maridelis Morales Rosado), The New York Times Magazine, “The New York Issue: The Month New York Woke Up”
Award of Excellence	Alexa Keefe (Photos by Jaime Culebras; Story by Angela Posada-Swafford), National Geographic Magazine, “Glass Frogs”
Award of Excellence	Todd James (Photos by Henry Leutwyler; Story by Patricia Edmonds), National Geographic Magazine, “Artifacts Pulled from the Rubble of 9/11 Become Symbols of What Was Lost”
Award of Excellence	Samantha Clark (Photos by Elliot Ross; Story by Alejandra Borunda), National Geographic Magazine, “Los Angeles Confronts its Shady Divide”
VISUAL EDITOR OF THE YEAR
First Place	Kevin Martin, Star Tribune
Finalist	Cheryl Diaz Meyer, Star Tribune
Award of Excellence	Natalia Jiménez, The Washington Post
Award of Excellence	Jennifer Samuel, National Geographic Magazine
ONLINE STORYTELLING: NEWS REPORTING
First Place	Nicole Fruge (Photos by Gabrielle Lurie), San Francisco Chronicle, “A Mother’s Last Hope”
Award of Excellence	Natalia Jiménez (Design and Development by Tara McCarty), The Washington Post, “‘One Down, 44 to Go’: Inside the House Impeachment Team’s Uphill Battle”
Award of Excellence	Elissa Curtis and Stephen Reiss, The Wall Street Journal, “Photos That Defined 9/11, and the People in Them—20 Years Later”
Award of Excellence	Brett Roegiers, CNN Digital, “20 Years in Afghanistan: America’s longest war”
Award of Excellence	Jennifer Samuel (Photo by Nichole Sobecki), National Geographic Magazine, “Meet Some of the Millions of Women who Migrated Recently, Risking Everything”
ONLINE STORYTELLING: DAILY LIFE
First Place	Olivier Laurent (Photos by Matthew Abbott. Editing by Reem Akkad, Olivier Laurent, Armand Emamdjomeh, David Crawshaw and Tim Meko. Graphics by Hannah Dormido and Júlia Ledur. Design and development by Emily Wright. Video editing by Jason Aldag. Copy editing by Karen Funfgeld), The Washington Post, “Australia Mice”
Finalist	Tiffanie Graham (Photos by Brenda Ann Kenneally), The New York Times, “The Primal Scream: Three American Mothers, On the Brink”
Award of Excellence	Maura Friedman (Photos by Alex Welsh), National Geographic Magazine, “How Do You Find Moments of Grace, Beauty and Joy during a Pandemic?”
Award of Excellence	Craig Allen, Sarah Almukhtar, Gray Beltran, David Furst and Gaia Tripoli (Photos by Dan Balilty), The New York Times, “‘How Many Funerals Will Come Out of This One?’”
Award of Excellence	Phaedra Brown (Photos by George Tatakis), The New York Times, “Exploring Greece’s Unseen Corners”
ONLINE STORYTELLING PROJECT OF THE YEAR
First Place	Natalia Jiménez, Madison Walls, Tyler Remmel, Jake Crump, Matthew Callahan, Irfan Uraizee, Garland Potts, Brian Gross, Daniela Santamariña, Kevin Uhrmacher, Lauren Tierney, Sarah Cahlan, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Meg Kelly, Elyse Samuels, Adriana Usero, JM Rieger, Phoebe Connelly, Nadine Ajaka, Erin Patrick O’Connor, Whitney Shefte, Jorge Ribas and Jesse Mesner-Hage., The Washington Post, “The Attack”
Finalist	Brett Roegiers, Nell Lewis, Thomas Page, Samantha Bresnahan, Sarah Lazarus, Mark Tutton, Stephanie Bailey, Rochelle Beighton, Tom Bouchier-Hayes, Samantha Bresnahan, Rebecca Cairns, Bijan Hosseini, Nell Lewis, Jenny Marc, Tom McGowan, Maheshpreet Narula, Thomas Page, Gio Prati, Sandy Thin, Woojin Lee, Wafaa Ayish, Agne Jurkenaite, Jonathan Fagan, Shaun Weaver, Sarah Tilotta and Bureau International des Expositions, CNN Digital, “A History of World Expos in 40 Objects”
Award of Excellence	Emily Jan, Nicole Fruge, Guy Wathen, Deb Wandell, Andrea Behr, Sarah Feldberg, Caron Creighton, Alex K. Fong, Daymond Gascon, Abhinanda Bhattacharyya, Paula Friedrich, Hilary Fung and Evan Wagstaff, San Francisco Chronicle, “San Francisco Chronicle 2021 Photos of the Year”
ANGUS McDOUGALL EXCELLENCE IN EDITING AWARD
First Place	Bernadette Tuazon and editing team, CNN Digital
Finalist	Kathy Ryan and editing team, The New York Times Magazine
Finalist	Deb Pastner and photo/video team, Star Tribune
Finalist	Whitney Johnson and editorial staff, National Geographic Magazine
Award of Excellence	MaryAnne Golon and editing team, The Washington Post