↑ FIRST PRIZE : Photo Essay Andrew McConnell, Panos Pictures – click it for the slideshow
The results of The Press Photographer’s Year for 2013 have been announced.
Photographer Adrian Dennis at AFP won three prize categories PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR – FIRST PRIZE : Sports Folio of the Year and FIRST PRIZE : Olympic Folio.
The PPY say: ‘Eighteen prizes have been awarded, and there are 150 pictures in the final edit that the jury selected from just over 12,500 photographs, an almost fifty percent increase on 2011. Our congratulations go to all those photographers for their exemplary work.
These photographs have been selected to represent the extraordinary variety and standard of the entries received, and will be showcased in the exhibition at the National Theatre from Saturday 6th July to Sunday 30th August.’
View winning photographers images here
The Press Photographer’s Year competition is run in association with the British Press Photographers’ Association (The BPPA)