The harrowing image of destruction following the July 7, 2005, terrorist attack in London captured with a camera-phone garnered the third-place prize in the 2006 Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards. The image was taken by Alexander Chadwick just after the Picadilly line explosion and was published by several media outlets, including the British Broadcasting Corp., CNN, the Guardian, the Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
A related photo taken with a traditional digital camera moments after a bomb exploded on the No. 30 bus in Tavistock Square picked up the first-place award; while an image of the Buncefield oil depot explosion on Dec. 11, 2005, taken from a plane was picked second.
The awards were open to any member of the public that has had a photo or video clip published or used by a newspaper, magazine, broadcast service, Internet news service, blog or photo sharing Web site it the last 12 months.
