Spokesman-Review staff take home multiple Associated Press photo awards, including Cowles Cup
Spokesman-Review photojournalist Colin Mulvany won First Place Metro Portrait with this photo in the 2016 Associated Press Northwest Photo Contest. Rachel White, 8, stares out her living room window as she waits for her parents to come home from work. White, a transgender girl, came out when she was in preschool. Her parents have supported her transition. Betsy White, her mother, says “I had a decision to make. I could support my child or I could bury my child.” (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)Buy a print of this photo
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.”
Photographer Dan Pelle took three awards: third place in the feature photo category for his photo “Slice of Banana Split Life;” second place in the sports category for his photograph “Rounding Third Heading Home;” and second place in the news category for his photo “Good Samaritan.”
Tyler K. Tjomsland won first place in the news category for his photo “Nature’s Toll.” He also won third place in the photo story category for his project “Rural Aging.”
Kathy Plonka won second place in the portrait category for her photo of human rights activist James Meredith.
Full list of winners among larger news outlets:
Judged by the staff of the Nashville Tennessean
Sweepstakes awards:
The Cowles Cup – Being Rachel – Colin Mulvany, The Spokesman-Review
Blackburn Award – Snowboard Silhouette – Lindsey Wasson, The Seattle Times
Feature:
1st – Snowboard Silhouette – Lindsey Wasson, The Seattle Times
2nd – Joy Ride – Colin Mulvany, The Spokesman-Review
3rd – Slice of Banana Split Life – Dan Pelle, The Spokesman-Review
Sports:
1st – Bobbled Ball – Genna Martin, Seattlepi.com
2nd – Rounding Third Heading Home – Dan Pelle, The Spokesman Review
3rd – Untitled – Sy Bean, The Seattle Times
News:
1st – Nature’s Toll – Tyler Tjomsland, The Spokesman-Review
2rd – Good Samaritan – Dan Pelle, The Spokesman-Review
3rd – Untitled – Sy Bean, The Seattle Times
Portrait:
1st – Transgender Girl – Colin Mulvany, The Spokesman-Review
2nd – Human Rights Activist – Kathy Plonka, The Spokesman-Review
3rd – Victorian – Genna Martin, Seattlepi.com
Multiple / Photo Story:
1st – Being Rachel – Colin Mulvany, The Spokesman-Review
2nd – Pig Harvest – Genna Martin, Seattlepi.com
3rd – Rural Aging – Tyler Tjomsland, The Spokesman-Review