8th place in Emotion

Wedding photographer Neil Kiekhofer, was awarded 8th place for photo 51966 in the Emotion category for the WPJA's 2006 Summer.

The WPJA contest judges presented Neil Kiekhofer, a wedding photographer, with this Master Piece Award as recognition for top wedding photojournalism in the industry.

The leading documentary wedding photographers in the world enter their best photos to the Wedding Photojournalist Association's photography competitions. They want their wedding reportage photographs to be evaluated and selected by some of the most notable and respected working picture editors and photojournalists in the news industry (these are not wedding photographers or other WPJA members judging their work). Winning these competitions is a true accomplishment for a wedding photographer.

2006 Summer Judges

Judges

  • There were many photographs of people crying at weddings. Many were touching in the tenderness they depicted. But only a few were able to capture those touching moments in a way that was both emotionally powerful and photographically interesting. This photograph did that well. The composition is strong. The mother and father frame the woman between them. The focus is on the eyes of the woman in the center of the frame. The emotion on her face and the faces of the father and mother give the photograph its power and poignancy.

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