Newsday garners 17 prizes in New York Press Photographers Association awards

Judges honored Newsday with 17 awards, including three first-place selections, in the New York Press Photographers Association's 87th annual contest.

The winners were selected from a field of entries submitted on behalf of photographers and video journalists working for newspapers, wire services and as freelancers statewide.

“The Newsday multimedia team is dedicated to producing outstanding visual journalism, and we are honored to have our work recognized by the New York Press Photographers Association,” said John Keating, the newspaper's director of multimedia newsgathering.

Among Newsday winners were two first-place awards for photos, seven exhibit photo awards, along with one first and third place award for video.

Jeffrey Basinger won first place in the long-form video category for “Cameras and Consequences,” which was part of a 2021 Newsday investigation showing how civilian recordings have contradicted police accounts. Freelancer Debbie Egan Chin won first place in the feature picture and animal picture categories for entries, “Storm Rolls In” and “Black Swan" respectively.

Randee Daddona won third place in the long-form video category after accompanying Newsday reporter Erica Marcus on a daylong tomato crawl on the East End.

Newsday photojournalists Thomas A. Ferrara and J. Conrad Williams won Exhibit Awards. The judges recognized Ferrara for work in the animal photo category, and Williams, Jr. in the news picture story category.

In the spot news photo category, freelance photojournalists David Handschuh and Howard Schnapp also earned Exhibit Awards. Newsday's Steve Pfost won an Exhibit Award in the spot news photo category.

Pfost also took home won second place in the general news category with the photo, “Reunited.” Alejandra Villa Loarca won third place in the portrait picture category for “Barber Shop,” while Chris Ware won third place in the short-form video category for his piece, “Jonathan Smith Oyster Farmer.”

Ware also received an honorable mention for his video entitled, "Charles Rufino Violin Maker."