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David Lipnowski: second portrait category
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Winnipeg Free Press: Second in team multimedia category for No Running Water series (CP)
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Tim Smith: first in pictorial category
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Phil Hossack: second in pictorial category
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Tim Smith: photograph of the year, first in portrait/personality category
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Tim Smith: first in feature category
A photographer with the Brandon Sun and several Winnipeg Free Press photographers snapped up a bit of honours at the country's premiere awards for news photography on Saturday night in Winnipeg.
At the annual News Photographers Association of Canada's National Pictures of the Year awards ceremony, Tim Smith, who takes photos for the Free Press's sister paper in Brandon, came first in both the portrait/personality and exposure of the year categories for his picture of Mennonites in a canola field.
Smith also won in the pictorial category for his show of Hutterite children playing on hay bales with a rainbow behind them and in the feature category for a figure of a couple hugging.
The picture of the Hutterite children recently won Smith a top honour at the National Newspaper Awards.
Smith was nominated for photojournalist of the class but doomed to Tyler Anderson of the National Post.
"It felt great to be here among my peers whose influence I admire," Smith said.
"And so to win a few awards is a humbling thing. They were all photos I loved, and at the end of the day that's all that truly matters."
Free Press photographer Phil Hossack came back in the pictorial category for a picture of lights above the city, while the newspaper's award-winning series, No Running Water, placed back in the team multimedia category.
"It's the emerging media in journalism, and it's an honor to be among the top of the mint in the country," said Joe Bryksa, who captured the photos that attended the series.
No Running Water, which also included stories and television features in the paper and on the Free Press's website, shone a spot on the want of fresh water and proper sewage facilities at the aboriginal communities in the Island Lakes area.
Free Press freelance photographer David Lipnowski came back in the portrait category for his impression of a shaft with a horse. "I was happy only to be nominated in that category with these people because I've been looking up to them for years," Lipnowski said.
Free Press photo editor Mike Aporius said,"I couldn't be prouder.
"These photographers amaze me every day. I can't look to go with them on whatever's next."
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