Reporters for amNewYork wins 15 New York Press Photographers Association awards for unbelievable photographs

Dean Moses (l.), the police bureau chief, and Lloyd Mitchell, a contract photographer and frequent amNewYork contributor, received excessive honors from the New York Press Photographers Association for his or her highly effective images in the course of the previous yr.

Photos by Barry Williams and Dean Moses

Two ace amNewYork photographers garnered 15 awards for his or her eager eyes and unbelievable photographs within the 91st New York Press Photographers Association Year in Pictures 2025 competition.

Dean Moses, the police bureau chief, and Lloyd Mitchell, a contract photographer and frequent amNewYork contributor, received excessive honors for his or her information images in the course of the previous yr.

Moses earned 10 awards in complete for this portfolio, lots of which had been centered on his work documenting ICE agent arrests at Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. He took dwelling two first-place prizes, a second, a 3rd, three honorable mentions, and three exhibit awards for his work.

Two of essentially the most highly effective photographs Moses took over the previous yr had been acknowledged by the affiliation. One was the notorious arrest of then-City Comptroller Brad Lander by ICE brokers at Federal Plaza final June.

Moses, who was acknowledged in 2022 by the New York Press Association as photographer of the yr, additionally earned honors for his picture of Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of United Health CEO Brian Thompson, being led right into a Manhattan courtroom for arraignment.

Mitchell, in the meantime, earned 5 awards, together with a second-place, a third-place, and three exhibit awards. He was acknowledged for his spot information work, together with iconic fire photos published in The Brooklyn Paper. He additionally earned a second-place picture end within the class of 2025 Political Unrest for documenting a protester being arrested.

Moses is within the working for the competition’s grand prizes of “Best in Show” and “Photographer of the Year,” each of which might be introduced on the affiliation’s annual awards night time. The date will quickly be introduced.

The New York Press Photographers Association is likely one of the oldest press associations within the nation, working for greater than 110 years. It is comprised {of professional} photojournalists from all through the tri-state space.