The judging of the annual “Focus on the Frontline” 2017 photo competition concluded today (Sunday, March 25, 2018). The jury received 1,405 photographs submitted from 70 photojournalists.
This year’s Photo of the Year was awarded to the Occupy protest leader Nathan Law being sentenced to jail photograph by WeMedia HK01’s photojournalist Wong Wing Chun. The judges felt a good photo must transcend the power of space and time, and still have an impact after 10 or 20 years. The result after a news event often would have added effect and sentiment to the moment when it happened. The decision to make the photograph of Nathan Law wearing prisoner uniform was unanimous.
Nathan Law, one of the Occupy protest leaders who was elected as a Legislative Council member, changed his row overnight to become an inmate in this photograph. Despite the negative circumstances, he was still able to show a peaceful but shy smile. It not only demonstrates the spirit of a non-violent protest, but also echo to the values of “Even if I am disappointed, I won’t be left hopeless” which was present during the 2014 Umbrella Movement. At the same time, those young leaders who participated in the Umbrella Movement are still striking for their dreams despite the setbacks. In a way, it presented the vision of the next generation, and allowed a glimpse into the future of Hong Kong society.
經過 6 位評判專業評審選出七個組別的得奬作品，比賽結果如下:
The results are as follows:
2017 年度圖片 Photo of the Year 2017
作品得主 Award Winner: 黃永俊 Wong Wing Chun/香港01 WeMedia HK01
2017年 8月22日 在衝擊公民廣場案中，香港眾志主席羅冠聰被判監8個月。
(A) 突發新聞 Spot News
(共收到 Total Submissions: 63 張)
冠軍 First Prize: 林若勤 Lam Yeuk Kan/香港01 WeMedia HK01
2017年7月 1日，社民連主席吳文遠在遊行期間被帶上警車，其間遭警車扯頭髮及推撞。
亞軍 Second Prize: 曾國宗 Sam Tsang/南華早報 South China Morning Post
Strong waves hit Lei Yue Mun as Typhoon Hato hits Hong Kong on August 23, 2017 with signal no.10 in force.
季軍 Third Prize: Miguel, Candela/Freelance
Police officers make attempt to save suicidal man’s life in Sham Shui Po, the poorest district of Hong Kong from government data.
優異 Honorable Mention: 何家達 Ho Ka Tat/蘋果日報 Apple Daily
*註：本組別有雙 冠軍 Note: This category has two first place winners.
冠軍 First Prize: 黃永俊 Wong Wing Chun/香港01 WeMedia HK01
2017年 8月22日 在衝擊公民廣場案中，香港眾志主席羅冠聰被判監8個月。”
冠軍 First Prize: 曾梓洋 Eric Tsang/香港01 WeMedia HK01
香港去年有人以業餘性質，在家研發出跟Scarlett Johansson幾可亂真的人形機械人。這位設計師Ricky Ma 已展開眾籌，獲500人集資後將技術分享，教大家如何在家造人形機械人，而且還能隨意選擇機械人的樣子，2017年9月15日，香港。
季軍 Third Prize: 談煒茵 Nora Tam/南華早報 South China Morning Post
Small Luk, founder of Beyond Boundaries, a group dedicated to championing the rights of Intersex people, poses at her Chinese medicine clinic on April 25, 2017. Luk was born with both male and female genitalia, but early on doctors classified her as male because she had what appeared to be a boy’s reproductive parts. She lived for years a boy and is now classifieds as female, but Small Luk says she’s neither and hopes one day a third gender will be accepted.
優異 Honorable Mention: 張建邦 Kin Cheung/美聯社 Associated Press
From left, Hong Kong’s young democracy leaders Lester Shum, Joshua Wong and Alex Chow pose for photographers in front of the High Court in Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Hong Kong’s young democracy leader Joshua Wong faces a possible new prison sentence in a case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. He’s among a group of activists awaiting sentencing Thursday afternoon following their convictions months earlier.
亞軍 Second Prize: 張建邦 Kin Cheung/美聯社 Associated Press
Hong Kong’s Pang Yao, left, and Russia’s Mariia Averina collide and crash during the women’s madison at the World Track Cycling championships in Hong Kong, Saturday, April 15, 2017.
季軍 Third Prize: 李澤彤 Li Chak Tung, Elson/香港01 WeMedia HK01
2017年3月12日／香港拳擊運動員曹星如。
優異 Honorable Mention: 梁偉榮 Leung Wai Wing/香港經濟日報 Hong Kong Economic Times
2017年渡海泳，賽事路線重返尖沙咀至灣仔，是2011年復辦以來首次。
優異 Honorable Mention: 吳煒豪 Ng Wai Ho/香港01 WeMedia HK01
優異 Honorable Mention: 鄧宗弘 Tang Chung Wang/明報 Ming Pao
日本拳王向井寬史擊中曹星如面部一刻。
(E) 特寫 Feature
(共收到 Total Submissions: 188 張)
冠軍 First Prize: 李澤彤 Elson Li /香港01 WeMedia HK01
2017年7月1日／七一回歸紀念日，一名被安排在機場歡送國家主席習近平的學生，疑因暴曬下不支暈倒。
亞軍 Second Prize: 許頌明 Mike Hui/蘋果日報 Apple Daily
2017年10月3日 –薄扶林村在中秋節期間舉行舞火龍活動, 火龍途經村內民居門口情況。
季軍 Third Prize: 何君健 Ho Kwan Kin/眾新聞 CitizenNews
2017年7月19日劉曉波追思會上放有鮮花及燭光的空凳在維多利亞港呼喚劉曉波。
優異 Honorable Mention: Miguel Candela/Freelance
An elderly homeless man sleeps on a playground. Hong Kong has the highest levels of income disparity in the developed world. In recent years, the situation among the poor has gotten worse, resulting in an increasing number of unemployed young adults and single elderly.
優異 Honorable Mention: 馮凱鍵 Fung Hoi Kin/明報 Ming Pao
季軍 Third Prize: 曾國宗 Sam Tsang/南華早報 South China Morning Post
Animal models (shipped over from a branch of the Rainforest Cafe when the resort was built and left there after it closed in 2007) are seen at an abandoned resort at Tai She Wan (aka. Big Snake Bay) in Sai Kung. 04AUG17
優異 Honorable Mention: 許頌明 Mike Hui/蘋果日報 Apple Daily
(共收到 Total Submissions: 46 輯 Stories, 共 548 張 Images)
冠軍 First Prize: 何家達 Ho Ka Tat/蘋果日報 Apple Daily
亞軍 Second Prize: 張建邦 Kin Cheung/美聯社 Associated Press
May 6, 2017 photo, a general view of residential and commercial buildings in Yau Tsim Mong District where is a popular location for the “subdivided units” in Hong Kong. There are estimated 200,000 people in the former British colony living in “subdivided units.” That’s 18 percent more than four years ago and includes 35,500 children 15 and under, government figures show.April 25, 2017 photo, a bus drives past a residential and commercial building where the “coffin homes” are located in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, Tse Chu, a retired waiter, sleeps in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, Mr.Yeung, left and Mr.Lui take rest in their “coffin homes” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, Wong Tat-ming, 63, sits in his “coffin home” which is next to a set of grimy toilets in Hong Kong as he pays HK$2,400 ($310) a month for a compartment measuring three feet by six feet. It’s crammed with all his meager possessions, including a sleeping bag, small color TV and electric fan.May 4, 2017 photo, Simon Wong, an unemployed man, watches TV in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.May 4, 2017 photo, Kitty Au plays with her hamster in her “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.May 4, 2017 photo, Mr. Sin, 55, tidies up the bed in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, Mr.Yeung takes rest in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, Cheung Chi-fong, 80, sleeps in his tiny “coffin home” where he cannot stretch out his legs in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, Mr.Lui has dinner in his “coffin home” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.May 4, 2017 photo, Hong Kong residents Mr. Lam, top left, Mr. Wan, top right, and Kitty Au, pose at their “coffin homes” in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.March 28, 2017 photo, a set of grimy toilets and single sink shared by the coffin home’s two dozen inhabitants, including a few single women, is located at a flat in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.April 20, 2017 photo, a five year-old boy plays outside his tiny home which is made of concrete and corrugated metal on the terrace of a apartment block as he lives with his parents in an illegal rooftop hut where is located next to a public housing estate at the background in Hong Kong.May 6, 2017 photo, an illegal rooftop hut is seen in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.
季軍 Third Prize: 陳焯煇 Chan Cheuk Fai/端傳媒 Initium Media
優異 Honorable Mention: 張建邦 Kin Cheung/美聯社 Associated Press
In this combination of photos, left: Participants stand for China’s national anthem at a school meeting in Hong Kong highlighting achievements of students who visited the mainland on exchange programs, Tuesday, June 6, 2017; and right: Wreaths mourning soldiers who died during first and second World Wars are placed outside St. John Cathedral in Hong Kong, Monday, June 12, 2017. Chinese nationalism, especially aimed at children in schools, is a recurring and divisive theme in Hong Kong, while at the same time memorials to long-ago wars fought by the city’s former ruling power are reminder that some still mourn the past under British colonial rule.In this combination of photos, left: An LED screen shows a red semicircle between buildings in Hong Kong on Saturday, May 20, 2017; and right: A man wearing the British flag shorts jogs at King George V Memorial Park in Hong Kong on Friday, June 2, 2017. Two decades after Hong Kong was handed to China, many residents continue to live their lives as before, holding on to old habits and routines as well as beliefs inspired by the former British colonial rulers, such as democracy, freedom of speech and justice.In this combination of photos, left: The corner of a red LED screen is seen next to the statue of Goddess of Justice at the former Supreme Court in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 1, 2017; and right, A man wears devil horns head gear in front of the Fringe Club, which was built in the British colonial style, in Hong Kong, Saturday, May 27, 2017. After the 1997 handover, Hong Kong cherished its autonomy, including its judicial independence, but with recent confrontations between pro-Democracy and pro-Beijing supporters, many believe that the “one country, two systems” principle is under threat as China seeks to impose its will.In this combination of photos, left: Clouds hang over Victoria Harbor as a red LED display is seen at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Wednesday, June 7, 2017; and right: A window frames a painting of clouds at a primary school in Hong Kong Friday, June 2, 2017. Hong Kong is often described as China’s window to the world but many residents feel their own freedoms have been circumscribed after control was handed to China in 1997 – like an expansive photo hemmed in by a frame.In this combination of photos taken on Friday, June 2 2017, left: A red lantern hangs outside a shop in Western District in Hong Kong; and right: A man pushes a trolley with a red plastic bag next to a wall depicting British themed graffiti art in Hong Kong. Traditional Chinese symbols like red lanterns are a familiar sight in Hong Kong alongside British icons despite periodic attempts by the authorities to remove the latter, underscoring attempts to steer the city away from its colonial past to its Chinese future.In this combination of photos, left: Red neon light is reflected in a puddle in Hong Kong, Friday, June 2, 2017; and right: A man is silhouetted in a sliver of light as he walks in front of Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong Kau Yan Church which was built in colonial style in 1861, Monday, May 29, 2017. As Beijing tightens its grip on Hong Kong, residents navigating the city’s complex political situation often must choose sides, politically or culturally, or else find space to exist in the few gaps left.In this combination of photos, left: A mannequin with a red head is displayed at a fashion store in Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 20, 2017; and right: A student tries out the view from a replica of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Confrontations between pro-Beijing and pro-democracy forces have heated up in Hong Kong’s semi-democratic Legislative Council and elsewhere as authorities take a hardline stance against challengers.In this combination of photos, left: Red carpeted steps lead up to a stage with screens displaying an image of the universe in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 22, 2017; and right: A red sculpture is displayed outside the Bank of China headquarters in Hong Kong to celebrate the anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, Friday, June 23, 2017. Massive amounts of “red capital” have flooded into Hong Kong from the mainland since the 1997 handover. Chinese investment benefits mainland investors but Hong Kong residents believe the advantages for them are less clear.In this combination of photos, left: Residents look at the sunset glow over Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong Sunday, June 11, 2017; and right: A woman carries a red umbrella past Sun Yat-sen Museum, which was built in colonial style, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Two decades after the handover, China’s presence is inescapable for many in Hong Kong, hanging over residents like a cloud, though authorities might like people to believe being under Beijing’s control is more of a shield.In this combination of photos, left, A water fountain is lit with red light at Statue Square in Hong Kong Saturday, May 27, 2017; and right: Clouds are seen though stained glass at the Western Market in Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power since taking office in 2012 has left some Hong Kong residents anxious about their future.
優異 Honorable Mention: 易仰民 Yik Yeung Man/蘋果日報 Apple Daily
“Focus On The Frontline” photo contest first began in 1993 and has been one of the largest photo competitions in Hong Kong and one of the most prestigious awards for photojournalists. Through this competition, we would like to to feature photographs that are important to the history, combined with elements of art and journalism taken by photojournalists within the year. Also to provide recognition of their great work and give an insight to the works of photojournalists and the media to the general public.
評判主要來自新聞攝影持份者的各界別，今屆6位評審 (排名不分先後) 包括:
The members of the jury panel are as follows:
葉七城 Ellis Yip — 攝影導師，電影專欄作者 Photography Instructor, Movie Critic
陳志發Steve Chan — 新晉電影導演 Film Director
張燦輝Cheung Chan Fai — 退休香港中文大學哲學系教授 Retired CUHK Professor
譚蕙芸 Vivian Tam —香港中文大學新聞與傳播學院講師 CUHK School of Journalism and Communication Lecturer
蕭偉恆 Siu Wai Hang — 攝影藝術家及大學講師 Art Photographer and University Lecturer
