Monday, July 17, 2006

Citizen journalists gain recognition


The above picture taken moments after a bomb exploded on a number 30 bus in London's Tavistock Square on 7 July 2005 has won the first citizen journalism award.

The awards are set up by Nokia and the UK Press Gazette. It aims to recognize images that are shot by citizens witnessing events.

Increasingly the well-known pictures of significant events around the world, such as the bombings in London on 7 July 2005, are coming from citizens rather than professional photographers.

The person who took the Tavistock Square photograph elected to remain anonymous and asked for the prize to be donated to one of the London bombings charities.

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