Aw, Adam, you shouldn’t have.
In related news, I can’t believe I didn’t post the terrific news that DMN photog Barbara Davidson was just named the national Photographer of the Year. Barbara’s awesome. She won in part for the great photos she took for my stories in Nigeria last spring, in particular the piece on the Catholic faith-healer Ejike Mbaka.
Quoth one of the contest judges: “It is one of the freshest stories I observed in the entire contest…This photographer has done a wonderful job capturing moments that are very intimate. There’s a wonderful sense of light and composition.”
You can see a bunch of her great photos, including more than a dozen from Nigeria, here.