ICP Infinity Award, Pictures of the Year and other honors for Blue Sky Days drone project

The Blue Sky Days project, which reveals a drone’s-eye view of America, recently received several top honors including:

• ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism

• World Press Photo, Second Prize Contemporary Issues

• Photographic Museum of Humanity 2015 Grant, First Prize

• Pictures of the Year International, Award of Excellence Issue Reporting

• White House News Photographers Association, First Prize Multimedia

• TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Photos of 2014

James Estrin, jury member for the Photographic Museum of Humanity and co-editor of the New York Times Lens Blog said the following about the winning project:

“Blue Sky Days is one of the most important photo essays done in the last few years. It tackles issues that are very difficult to photograph but central to modern existence – privacy, government intrusion and modern antiseptic warfare.”

A sincere thanks goes out to all the partners of this project for their support over the past year, including Harper’s Magazine, the Pulitzer Center, TIME Magazine, the Getty Images Grant, the Aaron Siskind Foundation, and Open Society Foundations.