The American Modern society of Magazine Editors offered their 2022 ASME Awards very last night time and ESSENCE walked absent a winner in the images category for the pictures, “Of Earth & Sky,” by Lorna Simpson from the January/February 2021 concern.
Deputy Editor Cori Murray, along with creative director Nia Lawrence, accepted the award. In Murray’s acceptance speech, she mentioned of ESSENCE remaining acknowledged the prestigious Ellie trophy. “Lorna Simpson was quoted in the New York Occasions declaring that, when she was directing Rihanna, she informed her to consider of herself as a giant. Perfectly, I sense like a big tonight. Thank you.”
The fellow nominees in the photography group had been National Geographic, Poetry, Stranger’s Manual and Time.
The 57th yearly Countrywide Journal Awards are sponsored by ASME and the Columbia Journalism University they ended up held at Brooklyn Steel in Williamsburg, New York. A couple other notable wins from the 2022 ASME Awards, integrated:
Online video: The New Yorker (David Remnick, editor) for “A Reporter’s Video from Inside the Capitol Siege” by Luke Mogelson, January 17
Podcasting: Pineapple Avenue Studios for two episodes of “The 11th,” hosted by Hanif Abdurraqib.
Common Excellence, Assistance and Way of life Category: ELLE (editor-in-chief Samira Nasar) for March, May possibly and November
This was ESSENCE’s initially nomination for images. The magazine has been nominated in other classes, like Basic Excellence in 2011 and 2014, in accordance to Nina Fortuna, ASME’s director of operations. ESSENCE received the Nationwide Magazine Award for Fiction in 1976.
Renowned high-quality artist Lorna Simpson photographed world-wide star Rihanna for ESSENCE’s January/February 2021 issue.
The more substantial-than-lifestyle pictures, a continuation of the artist’s collage sequence “Of Earth & Sky,” reimagines the narrative of how Black girls, their bodies and natural beauty, are portrayed in media. In two of the 11 visuals, Rihanna is juxtaposed from an indigo night sky, showing as a literal star, in an additional she’s parading throughout a city bridge balancing a significant Maximilian Davis feathered headpiece. The collaboration was termed “mesmerizing” “ravishing” and that Simpson’s function “awed viewers.”
The working day right after the launch of the Rihanna/Simpson go over and accompanying pics, the launch received over 4.8 billion media impressions and it was protected by Vulture, Artnet News, Phaidon, ABC Information, MSN.com, The Everyday, Billboard, Website page 6, US Weekly, ET Canada and additional. Even NBA great LeBron James Tweeted “Art is Elegance and Black Art is even more Lovely.” We couldn’t concur a lot more.
For a complete list of the 2022 finalists and winners, go to asme.media.