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Recent PostsScott Baradell edits and contributes to Black Star Rising. A former newspaper journalist and executive for Belo Corp., Scott is an accomplished brand strategist who leads the Idea Grove agency. He writes the Media Orchard blog and manages the Spin Thicket and Dirt 100 Web sites. He has nearly two decades of experience working closely with professional photographers, both as a journalist and as a corporate photography buyer. in
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February 12th, 2007
American photographer Spencer Platt of Getty has won the 50th annual World Press Photo of the Year award for his remarkable photograph of affluent young Lebanese surveying the destruction of war from inside a red convertible.
From Editor & Publisher:
“It’s a picture you can keep looking at,” said World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally, assistant managing editor for photography at The New York Times. “It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos.”
Platt’s picture was selected from more than 78,000 entries.
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