Chelsea Now photographer wins photo award

photo by Q. Sakamaki

By Lincoln Anderson

Chelsea Now photographer Q. Sakamaki, who shot the cover story for the paper’s inaugural issue back in late September, recently won a first-place award in the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Sakamaki won for “People in the News” in the photo-story category for his emotional shots of the Sri Lankan civil war, which he titled “War Without End.” Some of his photos from this entry also ran last year in Chelsea Now’s sister paper, The Villager, to which Sakamaki also frequently contributes — at least whenever he is in town. Sakamaki has also won top awards for that paper in the past, in the annual New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. He will be heading to Amsterdam in a few weeks for the World Press Photo awards ceremony. Asked for the secret behind his gripping pictures, Sakamaki said: “Catch the emotion, with context.”

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