Estonian newspapers show the best photos of the year 2009. Here you can see the photos of business paper Äripäev (news photos and feature photos), local paper Tartu Postimees (here) and national paper Postimees (here).
It’s good to look, enjoy and design great/big visual things in newspapers.
I noticed some big things in estonian newspapers, which usually mean a big fotograph. When it comes to the big song festival it’s only natural that Postimees and Eesti Päevaleht had the same idea (how else can you show crowd of people and emotion. I don’t think that 6 column photo could achieve the same power). I would like to see more this kind of courage in estonian newspapers, even now in the tough times and not only in every 4 years during the song festival.
The estonian goalkeeper Mart Poom announced about his retirement. In estonian sport this is definitely big event and also important to the newspapers or so I believe. The biggest newspaper in Estonia – Postimees placed Poom on the front page, so it’s clearly important.
In my opinion this is also important event to the newspaper designers and not only the designers but all the people who are active in making those current pages, because now is the opportunity to make those pages more interesting, bigger, exciting, powerful and visually diverse than everyday pages. Poom is most definitely worth it.
To add more excitement: you can compare how did the different estonian newspapers, like Postimees, Eesti Päevaleht and Õhtuleht, solve this problem.
The papers with the «Best newspaper design» in Russia 2008 are the Moscow newspaper Aktzia and Svobodny Kurs (Barnaul). These newspapers got a silver award in the sixth edition of the Russian newsdesign award.
The winners were chosen from a field of 48 newspapers representing different regions of Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan.
The seven competition categories awarded four gold medals, 11 silver, 16 bronze, 23 awards of excellence. The gold medal were awarded to Aktzia (the front pages), Delovoy Peterburg (infographics), Delovaya Gazeta Jug (photography) and Svobodny Kurs (photography).
The more winners you can see in the SND Update.
Olen saanud mitu viimast aastat osaleda Eesti Ajalehtede Liidu fotokonkursi žüriis ning üks asi, mis ikka ja jälle kripeldama on jäänud, on see, et konkursile esitatakse hirmus vähe spordifotosid. Neid peaaegu pole esitatudki. Viimase konkursi järgi võiks näiteks arvata, et Eesti spordifotograafe Pekingi olümpiamängudel toimunu üldse ei huvitanud. Kindlasti pole see nii, kui vaadata iga päev meie ajalehti, kuid millegipärast konkursil spordifotosid pole. Sport aga ei alga ja lõpe kindlasti mitte ainult olümpiavõitjate pildistamisega, hea spordifoto võib saada ka näiteks lasteaedade spordipäevalt.
Seepärast otsustasin, et korraldan täiesti iseseisva spordifoto konkursi. Äkki ärgitab see sporti pildistavaid fotograafe rohkem pingutama ning ka spordifotosid rohkem märkama. Loodetavasti tahavad sporti pildistavad fotograafid, et nende pilte võrreldakse ja ritta sätitakse. Aga peaeesmärk on ikkagi see, et spordifotot rohkem märgataks. Ja et spordifoto areneks.
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