Feature Picture, 1st prize
Ernest Cox Jr.
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
01 January, 1976
Life in Southern Africa: Zambian rancher Angus Loggle and a mother with child working on his farm in Zambia. In 1976, Chicago Tribune photographer Ernest Cox Jr. and two reporters, Clarence Page and James Yuenger, toured southern Africa to portray in words and images, what life is like for blacks and whites in that tense region. The Chicago Tribune published their reports in seven articles between 20 June and 17 July 1976.
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