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Cliff Edom's New America Award (slideshow)
- First Place: Jamie Francis (St. Petersburg Times)
- Honorable Mention: Michael Williamson (The Washington Post)
Newspaper Photographer of the Year
- First Place: Rick Loomis (Los Angeles Times)
- Honorable Mention: Jamie Francis (St. Petersburg Times)
Magazine Photographer of the Year
- First Place: Ami Vitale (Getty Images)
The Arts
- First Place: Eric Mencher (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Computer Image Illustration
- First Place: Carol Cleere (The Tampa Tribune)
Conceptual Illustration
- First Place: John Burgess (The Press Democrat)
- Second Place: Sarah Leen (freelance/National Geographic)
Domestic News Picture Story
- First Place: Barry Gutierrez (Rocky Mountain News)
- Second Place: Cherie Diez (St. Petersburg Times)
- Third Place: Beth Keiser (Associated Press)
- Honorable Mention: Patrick Raycraft (The Hartford Courant)
Domestic News
- First Place: Brian Baer (The Sacramento Bee)
- Second Place: Anne Cusack (Los Angeles Times)
- Third Place: Colin Mulvany (The Spokesman-Review)
- Honorable Mention: John Rawlston (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
General News
- First Place: David Ryan (The Boston Globe)
- Second Place: Steve Mellon (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- Third Place: Scott Winterton (Deseret News)
- Honorable Mention: Darrell Sapp (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
International News Picture Story
- First Place: Carolyn Cole (Los Angeles Times)
- Second Place: Barbara Davidson (The Dallas Morning News)
- Third Place: Ami Vitali (Getty Images)
- Honorable Mention: Maria Ines Menacho (Diario El Comercio)
International News
- First Place: Carolyn Cole (The Los Angeles Times)
- Second Place: Adam Nadel (freelance)
- Third Place: Barbara Davidson (The Dallas Morning News)
- Honorable Mention: Milton Amador (Metrowest Daily News)
- Honorable Mention: Jerome Delay (Associated Press)
- Honorable Mention: Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)
Magazine Feature Picture Story
- First Place: Kurt Vinion (freelance)
- Second Place: James Nachtwey (VII)
- Third Place: Roger Lemoyne (Getty Images)
- Honorable Mention: Oleg Nishikin (Getty Images)
Magazine Feature
- First Place: Steve Liss (TIME Magazine)
- Second Place: Alexandra Boulat (VII)
- Third Place: Oleg Nikishin (Getty Images)
- Honorable Mention: Natalie Behring-Chisholm (freelance)
Magazine News Picture Story
- First Place: Kristen Ashburn (Contact Press Images)
- Second Place: Hector Emanuel (freelance/Grazia Neri Agency, Italy)
- Third Place: Alexandra Boulat (VII)
- Honorable Mention: Nir Elias (Reuters)
Magazine News
- First Place: Nir Elias (Reuters)
- Second Place: Scott Nelson (Getty Images)
- Third Place: Scott Nelson (Getty Images)
- Honorary Mention: Natalie Behring-Chisholm (freelance)
- Honorary Mention: Aleksei Shynkarenko (Getty Images)
- Honorary Mention: David Silverman (Getty Images)
Magazine Portrait & Personality
- First Place: Katharina Hesse (freelance/Sipa Press)
- Second Place: Shawn Baldwin (freelance)
- Third Place: Sam Jones (freelance)
- Honorable Mention: Andrew Eccles (TIME Magazine)
Nature & Environment Picture Story
- First Place: Pedro Ugarte (Agence France Presse)
- Second Place: Alfred Yaghobzadeh (Sipa Press)
Nature & Environment
- First Place: Tony Overman (The Olympian)
- Second Place: Damon Winter (The Dallas Morning News)
- Third Place: Ric Fearson (Quest-AP/Sports Ilustrated)
- Honorable Mention: Andy Bronson (The News Review)
- Honorable Mention: Greg Wood (Agence France Presse)
Newspaper Feature Picture Story
- First Place: Casper Dalhoff (freelance)
- Second Place: Barbara Johnston (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Third Place: Stephanie S. Cordle (The Herald, Everett, WA.)
- Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Flores (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Newspaper Feature
- First Place: Larry Downing (Reuters)
- Second Place: Esteban Felix (Associated Press)
- Third Place: LaShinda Clark (The Philadelpia Inquirer)
- Honorary Mention: P. Kevin Morley (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Newspaper Portrait & Personality
- First Place: Damon Winter (The Dallas Morning News)
- Second Place: Cheryl Evans (The Arizona Republic)
- Third Place: Tim Sloan (Agence France Presse)
- Honorable Mention: Maya Alleruzzo (The Washington Times)
- Honorable Mention: Kathy Moore-Lengell (The Tampa Tribune)
- Honorable Mention: Damon Winter (The Dallas Morning News)
Pictorial
- First Place: Jamie Francis (St. Petersburg Times)
- Second Place: Mary Calvert (The Washington Times)
- Third Place: Brian Plonka (The Spokesman-Review)
- Honorable Mention: Nina Berman (AURORA)
- Honorable Mention: Dave Getzschman (The Merced Sun-Star)
- Honorable Mention: Robert Hendricks (Casper Star-Tribune)
Individual Sports Action
- First Place: Steve Griffin (The Salt Lake Tribune)
- Second Place: Steven Currie (Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games)
- Third Place: Craig Golding (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Honorable Mention: Tom Herde (The Boston Globe)
- Honorable Mention: Jeff Roberson (The Kansas City Star)
Team Sports Action
- First Place: Benny Sieu (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Second Place: Vincent Thian (Associated Press)
- Third Place: J.P. Moczulski (Agence France Presse)
- Honorable Mention: Don Emmert (Agence France Presse)
- Honorable Mention: Kelly Gillin (The Wenatchee World)
Sports Feature
- First Place: Cyrus McCrimmon (The Denver Post)
- Second Place: Gregg Newton (Reuters)
- Third Place: Walter Iooss Jr (Sports Illustrated)
- Honorable Mention: Marc Audap (Sports Illustrated)
- Honorable Mention: Craig Lassig (Agence France Presse)
- Honorable Mention: Bill Roth (Anchorage Daily News)
Sports Photographer of the Year
No award