Three Polaris photographers were honored in the 2006 POYi awards. Yannis Kontos was awarded First Place in the Magazine Feature Picture category, Christoph Bangert won an Award of Excellence in the Best Multimedia Story or Essay category and Gerard Rancinan received an Award of Excellence in the Magazine Feature Picture Story category.

"Life As An Amputee" Young Abu, 7, buttons his father's collar in the family's shelter in an amputee camp, northwest of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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"Photographer's Journal" from the New York Times' Week in Review.
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Kinuyo Watanabe, age 82, was 23 at the time of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and 2 km away from the Hypocenter.
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