NWNL AWARDS & HONORS:
Eagle Conservation Award: from The Raritan River Collaborative, sponsored by Rutgers University, NJ, 2011
Environmental Photographer of the Year, 2010: “Exceptional Image”
Photography Masters Cup, London: 4 Nominee Awards for Omo River Basin images, 2009
Prix de Photographie, Paris for “Thirst in the Omo Valley", 2009
Eliza Bailey Masters Award for Commitment to Community Service, 2007
Expedition Flags from the Explorers Club and WINGS WorldQuest, 2007 to 2009
Scott Pearlman Field Award, 2007 and 2009
“A child’s game in Uganda”
“Ugandan children study visitors to Bwindi National Park”
2011 Photography & Conservation Awards
INTERNATIONAL COLOR AWARDS 2011 – 5th Annual Photography Masters Cup:
1st PLACE – OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT in Children of the World, “A child’s game in Uganda”
NOMINEE in Children of the World
“Ugandan children study visitors to Bwindi National Park”
Winning images will be published in the print and on-line editions of The PHOTO PAPER.
Winning images in this category can be viewed here: Winners Gallery 2011 | Masters Cup.
Eagle Conservation Award
Rutgers University’s Eagle Conservation Awards were given to both NWNL director, Alison Jones, and NWNL video team, Associated Pictures, at Rutgers’ 3rd Annual Raritan River Initiative Conference, June 2011. The award was announced after the screening of their film A Sustainable Perspective: The Raritan River Basin, which documents threats to the Raritan River Basin and current restoration efforts.
International League of Conservation Photographers honors NWNL. Read their interview with NWNL Director Alison Jones and her profile, May 2011.
Maasai woman dressed for wedding ceremony
2010 Photography Awards
INTERNATIONAL COLOR AWARDS 2010 – 4th Annual Photography Masters Cup
HONORABLE MENTION, portrait category
“Maasai woman dressed for wedding ceremony” selected to be published Dec. 2010 in Photography Masters Cup magazine “The PHOTO Paper”
Winning portrait images can be viewed here: Winners Gallery 2010 | Masters Cup
Award of Excellence, Chicago Photo Forum
“The Red Barn” has been selected to receive an Award of Excellence by the judges of Chicago Photo Forum’s International Photography Competition 2010. Only 30 images out of hundreds of submissions were chosen for this honor.
This image is from northeastern Washington in the mid-Columbia River Basin.
1st prize, “Portrait of a Global Woman Contest”
FIRST PRIZE in Global Woman Magazine’s “Portrait of a Global Woman Contest”
Global Woman is a premier quarterly magazine and monthly webzine that covers the latest issues on women around the world. The publication serves to connect women from coast to coast and beyond, catering to their needs and giving voice to the many issues that affect their daily lives.
1 “A Hamar First Wife, Omo Valley, Ethiopia” (far left image)
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2009 Photography Awards
THE WORLDWIDE PHOTOGRAPHY
GALA AWARDS 2009
FINALIST in category: Portrait – People and Figure
(image 1) featured in the WPGA Annual Book 2009 and on The WonderPick Gallery
NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
2009 Windland Smith Rice International Awards
SEMI FINALIST – 2 images in category:
Indigenous Cultures
(images 1 and 2)
2009 PX3 ESSENCE OF WATER and
2009 “PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS” Px3 exhibition
Photo Essay “Omo River Tribes in Ethiopia” (images 3 – 7)
exhibited in Farmani Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
3 Ethiopia: Omo River Basin, Karo tribal village of Duss, mother carrying water jugs, with young son, on bank above Omo River
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4 Ethiopia: Omo River Basin, Duss, a Karo tribal village, woman holding black cooking pot in front of her face
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5 Ethiopia: Lower Omo River Basin, Dimika, Hamar tribal region, woman holding empty waterbottle on market day
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6 Ethiopia: Lower Omo River Basin, Hamar tribal region, returning from bull-jumping intitiation ceremony near Tourmi just east of Kesay River
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7 Ethiopia: Lower Omo River Basin, Omo Delta at low water stage, Yelokoriyay village of Dassenech people, women washing clothes in the river
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INTERNATIONAL COLOR AWARDS 2009 – 3rd Annual Photography Masters Cup
NOMINEE in 3 categories: people, photojournalism, portrait
Images 1, 2, 8 and 9 selected to be published Oct. 2009 in World Photographic Arts Magazine “The World In Photography”
2008 Photography Awards
BROMFIELD GALLERY – BLOW UP
National Competition winner
Image exhibited at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (image 10)
Juried by Harvey Stein, New York photographer, this national competition of photography and photo-based artwork interprets the title phrase in unexpected ways, from the silly to the sublime, from inflatables to explosions to angry “blow-ups.”
Bromfield Gallery: Blow-Up
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