The American Society of Magazine Editors offered their 2022 ASME Awards previous night time and ESSENCE walked away a winner in the photography category for the pictures, “Of Earth & Sky,” by Lorna Simpson from the January/February 2021 situation.
Deputy Editor Cori Murray, together with artistic director Nia Lawrence, accepted the award. In Murray’s acceptance speech, she reported of ESSENCE currently being regarded the prestigious Ellie trophy. “Lorna Simpson was quoted in the New York Moments expressing that, when she was directing Rihanna, she informed her to feel of herself as a huge. Effectively, I come to feel like a big tonight. Thank you.”
The fellow nominees in the photography classification were being Nationwide Geographic, Poetry, Stranger’s Information and Time.
The 57th yearly Countrywide Journal Awards are sponsored by ASME and the Columbia Journalism College they were being held at Brooklyn Metal in Williamsburg, New York. A few other notable wins from the 2022 ASME Awards, involved:
Video: The New Yorker (David Remnick, editor) for “A Reporter’s Video clip from Within the Capitol Siege” by Luke Mogelson, January 17
Podcasting: Pineapple Avenue Studios for two episodes of “The 11th,” hosted by Hanif Abdurraqib.
General Excellence, Company and Life-style Class: ELLE (editor-in-main Samira Nasar) for March, May well and November
This was ESSENCE’s 1st nomination for photography. The magazine has been nominated in other categories, like Typical Excellence in 2011 and 2014, according to Nina Fortuna, ASME’s director of functions. ESSENCE won the Nationwide Journal Award for Fiction in 1976.
Renowned fantastic artist Lorna Simpson photographed international star Rihanna for ESSENCE’s January/February 2021 challenge.
The larger sized-than-lifetime pics, a continuation of the artist’s collage sequence “Of Earth & Sky,” reimagines the narrative of how Black women of all ages, their bodies and magnificence, are portrayed in media. In two of the 11 images, Rihanna is juxtaposed versus an indigo night time sky, showing as a literal star, in one more she’s parading throughout a city bridge balancing a massive Maximilian Davis feathered headpiece. The collaboration was named “mesmerizing” “ravishing” and that Simpson’s perform “awed audience.”
The working day immediately after the launch of the Rihanna/Simpson deal with and accompanying pics, the start acquired in excess of 4.8 billion media impressions and it was included by Vulture, Artnet News, Phaidon, ABC News, MSN.com, The Daily, Billboard, Webpage Six, US Weekly, ET Canada and additional. Even NBA terrific LeBron James Tweeted “Art is Attractiveness and Black Artwork is even extra Attractive.” We couldn’t agree far more.
For a finish listing of the 2022 finalists and winners, go to asme.media.
