Top photo prizes awarded to Renee C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee for her intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with cancer and to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank
The theme is black and white, a taste of the past, reflections of the present; the goal is to visually present all subjects in the form of the early photographers