Jeff Campagna

PHOTOGRAPHER: THOKO CHIKONDI

Mount Mulanje is a climber’s paradise–and a casualty of logging. Can conservationists revive its forests?

PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI

A photographic tour through Italy’s effort to revitalize its rural towns.

2022-2023 SATW LOWELL THOMAS TRAVEL JOURNALISM COMPETITION, SILVER MEDAL, STILL PHOTOGRAPHY ON TRAVEL

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

The community of Block Island leads the nation in getting all its power from offshore wind.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVIDE MONTELEONE

Tracking Vladimir Lenin from his exile in Switzerland to his arrival in Russia 100 years ago. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: EMILY GARTHWAITE

Archaeologists in Iraq battle to protect the ancient Assyrian capital against myriad threats.

PHOTOGRAPHER: HENRIK KNUDSEN

A groundbreaking survey of the landscape surrounding Stonehenge has turned up tantalizing new clues to what really went on there

PHOTOGRAPHER: ALEX KAY POTTER

Photojournalist Alex Kay Potter travels up the Euphrates River, examining Iraq in the wake of the war against ISIS. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: TROI ANDERSON

Photographer Troi Anderson documents vodou rituals held during the annual pilgrimage of St. John deep within the caves outside of Saint-Michel de l’Attalaye in Haiti. 

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTOGRAPHER: BHARAT SIKKA

Photo essay on the former ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, now overgrown and decorated with murals and artwork. Located in Rishikesh, India, the Beatles traveled there in 1968 to attend Advanced Transcendental Mediation training under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

PHOTOGRAPHER: BRYAN SCHUTMAAT

Guadalupe Peak in west Texas was once a much moister place, as the fossil-filled rock there shows.

SPD51 / MERIT WINNER, SINGLE/SPREAD

PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI

For hundreds of years, rations in the southern Italian city of Naples have been cooking up a luscious solution to one of the world’s most tempting problems: What is the ultimate fast food?

PHOTOGRAPHER: EMILY GARTHWAITE

In Iran, a photographer accompanies a nomadic family and their livestock on a seasonal, time-honored trek across the mountains to their winter camp.

*2021-2022 SATW Still Photography on Travel (Bronze)

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

Scattered across a clifftop in Newfoundland, the world's oldest deep-sea fossils, dating back more than 560 million years, beckon scientists and tourists alike. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: DIANA MARKOSIAN

A German forester who has devoted his life to the study of the woods near his home is part of a new group of scientists who are revolutionizing our understanding of trees. 

SPD54 / MERIT WINNER, FEATURE STORY

PHOTOGRAPHER: CRISTIAN MOVILA

The surprising life and tragic demise of Baron Franz Nopsca–rogue aristocrat, pioneering dinosaur expert, geologist–and spy. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: GLENNA GORDON

Photographer Glenna Gordon looks at the remnants of the society founded by by former slaves from the American South in Liberia.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ALLISON SHELLEY

Deep in the Great Dismal Swamp, a maverick archaeologist discovers traces of a mysterious refuge for runaway slaves.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JOSHUA RASHAAD MCFADDEN

After years of white-washing and revisionist touch-ups, Atlanta’s massive 19th-century cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta is being restored to its original historical form.

SPD54 / MERIT WINNER, SINGLE/SPREAD

PHOTOGRAPHERS: ACKERMAN + GRUBER

Once a year a concert is staged on the tallgrass prairies of Flint Hills, Kansas, and this piece discusses what goes into preparing for it and what it’s like to live in the region.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SAMANTHA REINDERS

Exploring the remote island of St. Helena, where Napoleon spent the final years of his exile.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID MAURICE SMITH

After 40 years in storage at an Australian university, the skeleton known as Mungo Man–one of the oldest Homo sapiens ever found outside Africa–is finally being returned to the Aboriginal people.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JODY HORTON

From jalapeño cheddar sausage to a smoked turkey banh mi sandwich, a tiny Houston eatery is breaking the rules of Lone Star barbecue to create some of the freshest-tasting grub on the horizon.

PHOTOGRAPHERS: ANTONE DOLEZAL & LARA SHIPLEY

A notorious quack peddled cures at an Arkansas hotel in the 1930s. Nowadays the con game is all for show.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MYRTO PAPADOPOULOS

Alexander the Great’s unmatched military prowess and far-flung empire changed the world. But archaeologists in Greece are showing how his murdered father, Philip of Macedon, led the way.

PHOTOGRAPHER: EVGENY MAKAROV

How the paving of a highway in Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforest.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID MAURICE SMITH

The compassionate souls who went to the aid of the wildlife after the devastating bushfires on Kangaroo Island.

PHOTOGRAPHER: GRANT HARDER

In 1897, the California native went to the frozen North looking for gold. What he found instead was the great American novel.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANDREW KORNYLAK

After years of disappointing attempts to grow truffles on U.S. soil, an undaunted team of entrepreneurs in North Carolina is finally hitting pay dirt. Foodies and chefs are rejoicing.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DANIEL ROLIDER

Eking out a living on a remote island transformed by a volcano.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SOFIA VALIENTE

An artist communes with the resilient people of Belle Glade, Florida, a small city with a giant role in U.S. agriculture.

PHOTOGRAPHER: WAYNE MARTIN BELGER

A feature film shot partly in sacred canyons of he Navajo Nation shines a light on pioneering field archaeologist Ann Axtel Morris, who worked in the area a century ago.

PHOTOGRAPHER: RORY DOYLE

An unabashed tribute to the Buffalo River, the wild Arkansas waterway that became the nation’s first national river 50 years ago.

2022-2023 SATW LOWELL THOMAS TRAVEL JOURNALISM COMPETITION, BRONZE MEDAL, STILL PHOTOGRAPHY ON TRAVEL

PHOTOGRAPHER: SASHA ARUTYUNOVA

An abandoned garden in Delaware, built by a socialite on the site of a tragic industrial accident, bursts with new growth thanks to a few horticulturalists with an eye for history.

PHOTOGRAPHER: RAFAL GERSZAK

In a singular test of skill and courage, the world’s longest paddling race proceeds down the wild Yukon River. Not everyone finishes.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DANIEL ROLIDER

Israeli archaeologists’ surprising discovery raises new question about when humans first started to make themselves at home.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MINESH BACRANIA

An exclusive visit to Los Alamos, the top-secret U.S. laboratory where scientists developed the first nuclear weapon.

PHOTOGRAPHER: LAURA CHASE DE FORMIGNY

In Baltimore and beyond, meaderies like Charm City Meadery want to take the ancient beverage from Viking tales to a bar near you.

PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI

In the young nation of Slovenia, inventive chefs are putting their own twist on classic regional dishes, using river trout, berries and other locally sourced delicacies to create some of the hautest cuisine around.

PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI

Since ancient times, a Sardinian town has marked the season with a grim costumed festival.