A child marches with the crowd at the global climate strike march in Boston, Massachusetts, the United States on Mar. 3, 2023. Photo by Ziyu Zhu.

COM Students Win at Regional Photo Competition

May 8, 2023
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COM Students Win at Regional Photo Competition

COM students took home 12 of the 22 awards at the annual Boston Press Photographer Association’s annual contest for college photographers.

COM sophomore Ziyu (Julian) Zhu won top honors with the Best of Show as well as three other awards. Julian works as a freelance photographer for China Xinhua News Agency and Getty, and is a staff photographer for the works for the Daily Free Press.

COM’s Taylor Coester won three awards, including first place in the Story category, and Andrew Burke-Stevenson won two awards, including first place in Feature.

“The competition is stiff, and the judges are award-winning professionals,” says Stephen Haines, a COM lecturer in journalism and former photo editor for the Boston Globe. “The BPPA college contest is one of the toughest regional competitions in the country, and a win is recognized throughout the photojournalism community.”

Three brides encircled by a ring of dancing women.

The three brides of the night (Mrs. Gulmik, Elisheva Furman, and Rimma Linkov) clap as the women attending their triple wedding dance around them on Feb. 7, 2023. Photo: Andrew Burke-Stevenson.

Army ROTC cadets sleeping on a bus.

Katherine Sheridan (second row) sleeps alongside her fellow cadets on the bus ride back to school following Army ROTC’s two-day FTX training at Joint Base Cape Cod on Sept. 24-25, 2022. Photo by Taylor Coester.

Following is a list of all of the award recipients and their schools:

  • News: 1st: Ziyu Zhu / Boston University, 2nd: Andrew Burke-Stevenson / Boston University, 3rd: Ziyu Zhu / Boston University; Honorable Mention 1. Ziyu Zhu / Boston University, Honorable Mention 2. Ziyu Zhu / Boston University.
  • Feature: 1st: Andrew Burke-Stevenson / Boston University, 2nd: Taylor Coester / Boston University, 3rd: Maya Giron / Rochester Institute of Technology; Honorable Mention: Maya Giron / Rochester Institute of Technology.
  • Sports: 1st: Dylan Goodman / Harvard University, 2nd: Jonathan Ratner / Endicott College, 3rd: Emma Purple / Endicott College; Honorable Mention: Taylor Coester / Boston University.
  • Portrait: 1st: Maya Giron / Rochester Institute of Technology, 2nd: Maya Giron / Rochester Institute of Technology, 3rd: Amanda Siow / Boston University; Honorable Mention: Devon Lewis / University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
  • Story: 1st: Taylor Coester / Boston University, 2nd: Ben Cammarata / Harvard University, 3rd: Ben Cammarata / Harvard University.
  • Video: 1st: Clare Ong / Boston University, 2nd: Yuting Li / Boston University.