Polaris photographers Scout Toufankjian, Kemal Jufri, Evelyn Hockstein, Hector Mediavilla, Kate Brooks,
and Jay L. Clendenin, all garnered awards in the 2007 Poyi (Pictures of the Year International) awards.
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Hector Mediavilla - Magazine Portrait, Third Place
The Congolese Sape
Severin Mouyengo, who has been a sapeur since the seventies, poses in the entrace of his family
house in the Bacongo neighborhood.

Kemal Jufri - Science/Natural History, Second Place
Turbulent Eruptions
Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupts, spewing huge burning clouds of gas and blazing lava.

Evelyn Hockstein - Science/Natural History Story, Award of Excellence
Treating AIDS Patients with Alternative Medicine
A nurse at the Apac hospital, Uganda, uses a traditional healing method - the sap from a plant to
treat an Aids related rash.

Kate Brooks - Magazine Spot News, Award of Excellence
Fog of War
Lebanese teens watch a fuel tank at Rafiq Hariri International airport burn while the Israeli Air Force
bombs Beirut's southern suburbs.

Scout Toufankjian - Human Conflict, Award of Excellence
Grief
The surviving children of Asmaa Okal, Nadia and Nehal, are comforted by devestated relatives at
the funeral of their mother and sisters, eight month-old Shahd Okal and five year old Maria. They were
killed when an Israeli tank shelll hit their home in Jabaliya in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Jay L. Clendenin - Issue Reporting Story, Award of Excellence
Gitmo
Bootprints remain in the sun-baked mud. Flip-flops and orange jump suits lay on a single blanket.
Korans rest in slit windows. The soccer field doubles as a house of prayer and a guide to Mecca
is spray painted on the concrete slab. Guard towers break up the rows of barbed wire and signs do
their job of turning visitors away. This is present day Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, commonly known as
GITMO, where about 400 detainees remain and the debate over its
effectiveness continue.