For the third time, the renowned photographer Lynn Johnson, who is based in Pittsburgh, won the prestigious National Geographic Photographers' Photographer Award.
"Our winner is one of those people who is assiduously understated, does meticulous research, and enters the subject’s world with extraordinary depth of compassion. The pictures this photographer takes are the slippery pictures of ephemeral moments and framed in a way that, to be perfectly honest, would even elude almost everyone in this room..."
Read the full comments as the award was presented,
here.