The annual American Illustration and American Photography party was held last Thursday to honor the winners. Redux images in this year’s book include: Ben Baker’s portraits of Rudy Giuliani, Nina Berman’s coverage of wounded marine Ty Ziegel’s wedding to his high school sweetheart, Jessica Dimmock’s story on migrant workers in Vietnam, Rita Leistner’s “Portraitscapes of War” from Lebanon, Kevin Miyazaki’s personal project on abandoned fast food restaurants, Sandy Nicholson’s “Members of the Secretive Society of Maso”, Q. Sakamaki’s Sri Lanka and Nathaniel Welch’s “The Great Yank-Euro Ski-Off”.

Congratulations go out to four Redux photographers whose work was included in the PDN Photography Annual 2007:

• Jessica Dimmock, in Magazine/Editorial, for her project “The Ninth Floor” about heroin addicts. See tearsheets on the blog from Foam and Aperture, and the story on the Redux Archive.
• David Butow, in Photojournalism/News/Documentary, for his story “On a Dagger’s Edge” about Yemen. See tearsheets on the blog and the story on the Redux Archive.
• Chris Mueller, in Websites, for his site www.chrismueller.com.
• Q. Sakamaki, in Photojournalism/News/Documentary, for his story “War without End” about political violence in Sri Lanka. See tearsheets on the blog and the story on the Redux Archive.