SR photogs win Cowles Cup, more
Spokesman-Review photojournalist Kathy Plonka won Second Place Metro Portrait with this photo in the 2016 Associated Press Northwest Photo Contest. Legendary human rights activist, James Meredith, visited the Human Rights Educational Institute in Coeur d’Alene on Friday. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Spokesman-Review photographers bundled up the awards in the 2016 Associated Press Northwest photo contest, announced Wednesday.
Photographer Colin Mulvany won the Cowles Cup trophy, awarded each year since 1952, for his photographs of 8-year-old transgender girl Rachel White . The Cowles trophy is named for William Hutchinson Cowles, former publisher of The Spokesman-Review. Mulvany also won first place in the photo story category and first place in the portrait category for that same project.
Lindsey Wasson from the Seattle Times won the Blackburn Award, named for a photographer for the Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Washington, who was killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Mulvany also won second place in the feature photo category for his photo “Joy Ride.” More here.
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