2015 Winners
Below is a list of the winners from the 2015 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest. Thank you to everyone who entered and participated in the contest, and congratulations to the winners!
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Best in Show
- Javier Arcenillas
Rich Mahan Best Student Portfolio
- First Place – Callaghan O'Hare
Best Portfolio
- First Place – Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images News
Spot News
- First Place – Abbas Momani / Agence France-Presse
- Second Place – Ozcan Yaman / Agence France-Presse
- Third Place – Bulent Kilic / Agence France-Presse
- Honorable Mention – Sait Serkan Gurbuz / Reuters
- Honorable Mention – David Goldman / Associated Press
- Honorable Mention – Mark Garfinkel / Boston Herald
General News
- First Place – Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press
- Second Place – Patrick Semansky / Associated Press
- Third Place – Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
- Honorable Mention – Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press
- Honorable Mention – Brian Snyder / Reuters
Feature
- First Place – Javier Arcenillas
- Second Place – Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press
- Third Place – Angelos Tzortzinis / Agence France-Presse
- Honorable Mention – Scott Strazzante / San Francisco Chronicle
- Honorable Mention – Brendan Sullivan / Omaha World-Herald
Portrait/Personality
- First Place – Daniel Ochoa de Olza / Associated Press
- Second Place – Dimitar Dilkoff / Agence France-Presse
- Third Place – Theo Stroomer
- Honorable Mention – Pete Marovich / Corbis
- Honorable Mention – Francis Gardler / Lincoln Journal Star
- Honorable Mention – Andrew Russell / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Sports Feature
- First Place – Matthias Schrader / Associated Press
- Second Place – Pete Marovich / Freelance
- Third Place – David Ramos Vidal
Sports Action
- First Place – Patrick Smith / Getty Images
- Second Place – Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
- Third Place – Veasey Conway
- Honorable Mention – Patrick Smith / Getty Images
Sports Picture Story
- First Place – Andres Kudacki / Associated Press
- Second Place – Patrick Smith / Getty Images
- Honorable Mention – Susana Vera / REUTERS
Feature Picture Story/Essay
- First Place – Javier Arcenillas
- Second Place – Probal Rashid
- Third Place – Maye-E Wong / Associated Press
- Honorable Mention – Gabriela Arp
- Honorable Mention – Andres Kudacki / Associated Press
- Honorable Mention – Stephen Morton
Chris Hondros Memorial International News
- First Place – Win McNamee / Getty Images
- Second Place – Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press
- Third Place – Jerome Delay / Associated Press
News Picture Story
- First Place – Santi Palacios / Associated Press
- Second Place – Justin Sullivan
- Third Place – Pierpaolo Mittica
- Honorable Mention – Patrick Semansky / Associated Press
- Honorable Mention – Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images News
Short Term Documentary Project
- First Place – Gabriela Arp
- Second Place – Sophia Allison / UNC - Chapel Hill
- Honorable Mention – Celia Tobin
- Honorable Mention – Guy Wathen / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Long Term Documentary Project
- First Place – John Pendygraft / Tampa Bay Times
- Second Place – Carter McCall
- Honorable Mention – Sophia Allison / UNC - Chapel Hill