Pictures of the Year International

Michael Robinson Chavez of the Washington Post was named the Photographer of the Year International. His 25-year career work spans more than 70 countries and includes stories on climate change in Siberia, the economic collapse in Venezuela, violence in Mexico, droughts in California, tsunamis in Indonesia and Chile, the Egyptian revolution, gold mining in Peru, the 2006 Hezbollah/Israeli war and the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. He discusses his career and how he and picture editor Chloe Coleman collaborate to create meaningful stories. Moderated by POY Director Lynden Steele.

Three extraordinary tree species are protecting our climate from collapse. Can we protect them? With support from the Pulitzer Center, a Vox team traveled to Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to report this story, which won first place in Online Storytelling: News Reporting in Pictures of the Year International. In this joint presentation with the Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Lecture and the Missouri School of Journalism, Vox reporter Umair Irfan and visuals editor Kainaz Amaria discuss their storytelling approach with Mizzou professor Sara Shipley Hiles and POY judge Jarrad Henderson, Senior Multimedia Producer in the Investigative and Enterprise Video Team at USA Today.

As COVID-19 sweeps across the planet, we talk to four Photographers of the Year who are covering the outbreak in their own community as they work and live on different points of the virus timeline. Our panelists are Alon Skuy of the Times in South Africa, Barbara Davidson in Los Angeles, Fabio Bucciarelli in Italy, and Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times, who has spent the past several months in Hong Kong. The moderators are Regina Boone, POY judge and staff photographer at the Richmond Free Press, and POY Director Lynden Steele.

Graham Dickie was named the 74th College Photographer of the Year in 2019. The honor comes with Nikon camera equipment from CPOY’s Co-Sponsor Nikon Inc, a scholarship from the National Press Photographers Foundation and an opportunity to form a relationship with National Geographic. Graham's winning body of work spans 4 years. He discusses with National Geographic Picture Editor Alexa Keefe and CPOY Director Jackie Bell how his student project is now becoming a book.