Winner: Travel + Leisure, ‘The New Delhi’
Photographer Frederic Lagrange gave visual testament to the theme of ambition in Travel + Leisure’s look at the up-and-coming Indian metropolis. Delhi is a city on the rise, self-consciously growing in significance worldwide and trying to look the part.
Juxtaposing the ancient textures and architecture with an emerging insistence among its thought leaders to embrace modern style, the images personalize Delhi. A woman in a Hermes skirt takes a vogue-ish turn in front of the Bara Gumbad tomb. Another model in a J. Crew top watches a young boy dash into the frame from a side street at night. A woman stands beside a passing subway car in a dress that carries both traditional iconography and a modern cut.
Lagrange captures in all of these photos a sense of self-confidence and determination among Delhi’s citizens. The hustle and bustle are there—in the images of daily commutes and blurred activity of the fashion district. But the fundamental theme of the city—to take its place on the world stage and assert its growing economic power—are in the eyes and faces of the portfolio’s people. This is that rare travel photo spread that locates and deepens the character of a place.
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Honorable Mentions
Advanstar Communications/Medical Economics – “Get the Word Out”: This portfolio of doctors engaging in their campaign to promote wellness helps readers move outside the clichés of the healthcare profession and outside the walls of the clinic.
Hearst Magazines/Food Network Magazine – “You’re Foiled”: Through deft lighting and superb framing and staging, this simple portfolio on foil-wrapped cooking managed to keep the food and the end result front and center.
People – “An African Boy’s Healing Year”: This story of a Zimbabwe boy, Beloved, who was disfigured in a land mine accident is told visually with uncommon dignity.
People – “This Is Home”: A year after a raid on the Yearning for Zion religious community in Texas, photographer David Burnett was able to chronicle both the toll the raid took on its people and the simple beauty of their existence.
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