Alex Majoli Wins Top Two Photojournalism Awards

Melville, New York, April 22, 2004 ? Magnum photographer and Olympus Visionary Alex Majoli was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in the National Press Photographers Association?s Best of Photojournalism 2004 Contest. His winning work included a portfolio of images from the Iraqi war and of daily life in China. Majoli also received the Overseas Press Club?s prestigious Feature Photography Award for his coverage of the war in the Congo. The images submitted for both awards were all shot for Newsweek with the Olympus C-5050 digital camera.

Majoli?s winning images are representative of the penetrating investigative and political coverage and razor-edged style for which he has become widely known. His work runs a gamut of subjects and emotions, from the brutal reality of war in Iraq to the quiet daily routine of a garbage collector in China. Majoli?s assignments for Newsweek, with whom he has a long- standing contract, and for The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, regularly place him in situations where his equipment must respond immediately and flawlessly. For the last two years Majoli has relied exclusively on Olympus digital cameras.

Click here to see Alex Majoli's winning portfolio.