The 22 award-winning entries for the annual Overseas Press Club (OPC) Awards highlight the increasing hazards facing foreign correspondents around the world. Bassam Khabieh, international photojournalist with Reuters, will receive The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, which honors the best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. Mr. Khabieh is being honored for “Field Hospital Damascus,” with images that put into perspective the tremendous danger and difficulties facing journalists in Syria today.
“Our jobs have become more dangerous and harder to come as our profession faces economic and technological change,” says Marcus Mabry, president of the Overseas Press Club of America and the managing editor of Twitter Moments. “We gather tonight not to bemoan this reality, but to confront it. Our role as journalists is to bear witness, and ensure that suffering is not in silence, injustice is not unknown.”
There were 486 entries in this year’s competition.
Photography Awards:
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage, enterprise Bassam Khabieh, Reuters “Field Hospital Damascus”
The Olivier Rebbot Award
Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books Stephen Dupont, Steidl “Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars, 1993-2012”
The John Faber Award
Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter, The New York Times “Exodus”
Feature Photography Award
Best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme Daniel Berehulak, The New York Times “High in the Himalayas, A Search After the Nepal Quake Yields Grim Results”
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