Chronicle photo team wins honors
The Chronicle’s photo editors, multimedia team, designers and photographers were honored by the National Press Photographers Association in the 2017 Best of Photojournalism competition for their work in the past year on the issues of homelessness, surviving the AIDS epidemic and the Bay Area’s rising sea levels.
“The tremendous effort and resources The Chronicle invests in photojournalism distinguishes us from other media. Photos can affect civic dialogue in a unique and emotional way, and we are thrilled that the excellence of our photo staff has been so widely recognized,” said Audrey Cooper, The Chronicle’s editor in chief.
Nicole Frugé, director of photography; Russell Yip, deputy director of photography; and photo editors Kat Duncan, Alex Washburn and RJ Mickelson won the team award for newspaper picture editor of the year.
Yip swept the awards for newspaper illustrative single page, taking first, second and third place for photo-editing pages shot by photographers Carlos Avila Gonzalez, Stan Pechner and Gabrielle Lurie.
Frugé came in third place for the individual award of newspaper picture editor of the year.
Filmmakers Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin came in third for the multimedia portfolio award for Last Men Standing, an inside look at San Francisco’s AIDS survivors.
Brethauer and Hussin also came in third for the multimedia portfolio large market award for Last Men Standing, the Regulars, Beyond Homelessness and Rising Reality.
Last Men Standing also earned first place in the newspaper special section or reprint category — granted to Frugé and former director of photography Judy Walgren, for a special section photographed by Yip, Brethauer, Hussin and Leah Millis and designed by senior art director Danielle Mollette-Parks.
For the visual column, recurring series or blog category, Brethauer and Hussin came in first place for their work on the Regulars.
Frugé came in first place for magazine sports story for editing photographs of the Golden State Warriors season by Gonzalez, Millis, Scott Strazzante and Michael Macor. Design Director Elizabeth Burr designed the feature.
Frugé took second place in the category of newspaper news section front, other than the front page, for her work in a page designed by Mollette-Parks on the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando.
Frugé received honorable mention for two stories from the Beyond Homelessness project photographed by Lea Suzuki, Brant Ward, Steve Ringman, Loren Elliott, Lurie, Hussin and Millis in the category of multiple-page newspaper documentary/photojournalism project. The pages were designed by Mollette-Parks.
In the category newspaper front page (individual front page), Frugé received an honorable mention for a page featuring a triumphant photo of Warriors star Stephen Curry shot by Strazzante and designed by MolletteParks.
The judging took place last week at Ohio University.