Bloomingtonian photographer Jeremy Hogan awarded runner-up for Indiana Press Photographers Association Photographer of the Year
Firefighters and police respond to a sofa fire across from the Indiana University Sample Gates after the IU basketball team beat Purdue 68-65 on January 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Ind. The fire was set as celebrating fans were walking through the area.
The Bloomingtonian’s photographer and editor Jeremy Hogan was awarded runner-up in the 2022 Indiana Press Photographer’s Association Photographer of the Year competition judge last weekend at Indiana University. Denny Simmons, of the Evansville Courier, won the 2022 INPA Photographer of the Year. Simmons, who has worked at the Courier for over two decades also won POY in 2010.
Hogan, an independent photojournalist, was competing against news photographers across the state of Indiana, including the staff of Indiana’s largest newspaper, the Indianapolis Star. The Kokomo Tribune’s Kelly Lafferty was second running up for POY.
Hogan also won first place for spot news photograph, and portrait/personality photo, as well as an honorable mention in the general news photo category.
In 2022 Hogan also finished fourth place in the Midwest Region of the National Press Photographers Association monthly news photo competition.
Firefighters and police respond to a sofa fire across from the Indiana University Sample Gates after the IU basketball team beat Purdue 68-65 on January 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Ind. The fire was set as celebrating fans were walking through the area.The Purdue Boilermakers celebrate beating Indiana University and taking the Old Oaken Bucket during an NCAA football game on November 26, 2022 at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. Purdue beat IU 30-16.Indiana defender Daniel Munie (5) plays against Saint Louis defender Alberto Suarez (4) during an NCAA men’s soccer game on November 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana beat Saint Louis 1-0.The Million Father March welcomes Fairview Elementary students on the first day of school on August 3, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. The mayor, chief of police, MCCSC superintendent and other city leaders also joined welcoming the students. Community members gathered before 8:30 a.m., but by 9:30 a.m. only two buses had arrived.Indiana Hoosiers guard Grace Berger (34) streals from Maryland Terrapins guard Shyanne Sellers (0) during the Women’s Big Ten Tournament an NCAA women’s basketball game in Indianapolis. Indiana beat Maryland 62-51.Members of the Owen Valley High School cheerleading compete in a bed race during the the 2022 Gosport Lazy Days festival on August 13, 2022 in Gosport, Indiana. The Owen Valley High School football team won the event.Lemon Bucket Orkestra performs during the 2022 Lotus Festival Parade on September 24, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana.Members of the Bloomington Police Department investigate after a shooting at an apartment complex near 15th Street and North Maple just before 11 p.m. on Sunday, June 14, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. This story will be updated.The Bloomington Fire Department extinguishes a working structure fire on Pine Street between 6th and 7th Streets on Monday, March 28, 2022, in Bloomington, Ind. BFD was investigating the cause of the fire Thursday.Simon Bannerot of the Lakai skateboard shoe team skates at the Switchyard Skate Park during a demo organized by Rhett Skateboarding shop on August 14, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. The demo was followed by the Nathaniel Russell Collection Launch Party at Rhett skate shop in Bloomington. Lakai skateboard team members were on the Limited Legroom Tour, and had previously stopped in New Brunswick, New Jersey and West Reading Pennsylvania before heading to Bloomington.Firefighters from the Monroe Fire Protection District and Washington Township Fire in Morgan County extinguish a fire that began when a truck carrying paint exploded, and then caught two barns on fire in the 4500 block of East Hacker Creek Road, on July 20, 2022 near Martinsville, Indiana. One person had minor burns from the fire.Nancy who lives in a homeless camp behind the old K-Mart building on West Third Street poses for a portrait on June 1, 2022, in Bloomington, Indiana. Residents of the camp said they were were given until tomorrow to vacate or face arrest. Announcements were passed out to residents recently. Most have left the camp already, taking what they could carry or move in a vehicle, and leaving the rest of their possessions behind.Katya Chomitzky, who is Ukrainian, is overcome with emotion as she is comforted during the Stand With Ukraine rally to protest the war, February 25, 2022, in Bloomington, Ind. The anti-war protesters want the war in Ukraine to stop.A dog barks at at a person dressed as a snowman during Freezefest at Switchyard Park on January 22, 2022 in Bloomington, Ind.Snow falls on Kirkwood Avenue as a pedestrian navigates during a winter storm in Bloomington February 3, 2022, in Bloomington, Ind.Members of the Indiana University Graduate Workers Coalition – UE went on strike on April 13, 2022, after the university refused to recognize their union. The graduate workers were asking for benefits, higher wages, and fee reductions. Eventually the university gave the workers everything they wanted, except union recognition.Members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition and their supporters picket outside the Chemistry building while striking for union recognition on April 19, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University’s administration has said the workers don’t need a union, and has refused to acknowledge it. The graduate workers were unhappy about low wages, and paying fees when the union was formed. The strike began April 13, 2022, and strikers voted by 97.3-percent on April 19 to continue the strike for another week.Members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition and their supporters carrying picket signs during a strike for union recognition on April 19, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University’s administration has said the workers don’t need a union, and has refused to acknowledge it. The graduate workers were unhappy about low wages, and paying fees when the union was formed. The strike began April 13, 2022, and strikers voted by 97.3-percent on April 19 to continue the strike for another week.A group of graduating students opened a bottle of Champaign during a photo session at the Sample Gates as members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition held picket signs while striking for union recognition on April 15, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University’s administration has said the workers don’t need a union, and has refused to acknowledge it. The graduate workers were unhappy about low wages, and paying fees when the union was formed. The strike began April 13, 2022.Members of the Indiana Grad Workers Coalition who work for Indiana University occupy the Provost’s Office while staging a “Work-In” on February 15, 2022, in Bloomington, Ind. Graduate students who work for the university gathered enough signatures to unionize, but IU is saying they aren’t actually IU employees, and don’t have the right to a union. IU has refused to recognize the union according to the Indiana Grad Workers Coalition.Members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition and their supporters picket near the Indiana Memorial Union while striking for union recognition on Friday, April 29, 2922 in Bloomington, Indiana. Friday was Red Carpet day at IU for incoming freshmen who will start in the fall. The graduate workers have been on strike since April 13, 2022, but IU’s administration has not recognized their union.Members faculty council draft part of a resolution to be distributed to members before a full faculty meeting, on Monday, May 9, 2022 in Bloomington, Ind. Over 700 faculty members attended the meeting and voted on three resolutions. One resolution was to assure striking students can’t be fired.Members of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition and their supporters hold a pet parade while striking for union recognition on April 18, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University’s administration has said the workers don’t need a union, and has refused to acknowledge it. The graduate workers were unhappy about low wages, and paying fees when the union was formed. The strike began April 13, 2022.Indiana Grad Workers and supporters carry picket signs in the rain, Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Bloomington, Indiana. The workers have been on strike for 4 weeks. IU graduation is this weekend.Police shut down most of downtown Bloomington, Indiana while hunting for a man who fled into the storm sewer system. The suspect, believed to be armed with a rifle, sexually assaulted a woman, and then went to a local park where he waved a machete at unhoused members of the community. When police arrived, the man crawled into a storm sewer, and hid under the city, until eventually police found and arrested him after several hours. Police later searched the sewer system, but did not locate a rifle.Members of the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) wait for a man who barricaded himself inside the Bloomington storm sewer system on September 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Police from several different agencies worked from late morning until late afternoon to catch the man who entered the Bloomington storm sewer system near 1st Street and Walnut Tuesday morning. Police believed the man was armed with a gun.Police search for a man who barricaded himself inside the Bloomington storm sewer system on September 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Police from several different agencies worked from late morning until late afternoon to catch the man who entered the Bloomington storm sewer system near 1st Street and Walnut Tuesday morning. Police believed the man was armed with a gun.Police use smoke while trying to catch a man who barricaded himself inside the Bloomington storm sewer system on September 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Police from several different agencies worked from late morning until late afternoon to catch the man who entered the Bloomington storm sewer system near 1st Street and Walnut Tuesday morning. Police believed the man was armed with a gun.A police officer aims a gun at a storm drain entrance after man barricaded himself inside the Bloomington storm sewer system on September 20, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Police from several different agencies worked from late morning until late afternoon to catch the man who entered the Bloomington storm sewer system near 1st Street and Walnut Tuesday morning. Police believed the man was armed with a gun.Police and members of IU Health Bloomington check a suspect who was taken into custody at 6th and Indiana Avenue on September 14, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Police from several different agencies worked from late morning until late afternoon to catch the man who entered the Bloomington storm sewer system near 1st Street and Walnut Tuesday morning. Police believed the man was armed with a gun.Police and members of IU Health Bloomington check a suspect who was taken into custody at 6th and Indiana Avenue on September 14, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Police from several different agencies worked from late morning until late afternoon to catch the man who entered the Bloomington storm sewer system near 1st Street and Walnut Tuesday morning. Police believed the man was armed with a gun.In June 2022 the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Roe v. Wade, which recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion. Roe v. Wade had been the law of the land since 1973, but the ruling against it left abortion rights up to states. Soon Senate Bill 1 was introduced in Indiana, and it was made into law in August, which effectively banned abortion in the state. The Indiana law has faced court challenges. Protesters on both sides of the issue faced off in Washington D.C., and Indiana.Robin Gwak protests outside the Supreme Court of the United States after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 25, 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.A group of woman flip off Anti-abortion activists in front of a sorority house on East Third Street on October 2, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. On Thursday, Sept. 22, an Indiana circuit court temporarily blocked Indiana’s near total abortion ban, restoring abortion access. Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion was struck down by the conservative majority United States Supreme Court in June.Abortion-rights activists shut down a street near the White House in protest two days after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 26, 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.An anti-abortion activist prays outside the Supreme Court of the United States three days after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.Abortion rights activists react by flipping off politicians after the Indiana House of Representatives votes to ban abortion, before passing the bill to the Senate, inside the Indiana State house during a special session on August 5, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The legislature held a special session to ban abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in June.Anti-abortion protesters march from the Monroe County Courthouse around Planned Parenthood and back to the courthouse during the Rally for Life on January 23, 2022, in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana lawmakers are considering a law that would make it a felony to “coerce” a pregnant woman into having an abortion. The Supreme Court of the United States is also expected to hear cases that could overturn Roe v.s. Wade, a 1973 ruling that made abortion legal under the U.S. Constitution.Police guard the Supreme Court of the United States after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 24, 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.Abortion-rights protesters hold signs on the south steps of the Indiana State house as the Indiana State Legislature holds a special session on July 25, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The legislature is holding a special session to consider curtailing abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade last month.An anti-abortion protester faces abortion rights protesters outside the Supreme Court of the United States three days after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.Abortion rights activists react after the Indiana Senate votes to ban abortion, inside the Indiana State house during a special session on August 5, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The legislature held a special session to ban abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in June.A woman flips off a man who was using a megaphone to call pro-choice women sinners outside the Supreme Court of the United States after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 25, 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.Indiana House of Representatives Democratic member Renee Pack hugs an abortion rights activist after the Indiana House voted to ban abortion, before passing the bill to the Senate, inside the Indiana State house during a special session on August 5, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The legislature held a special session to ban abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in June.A member of the Capitol Police holds back an anti-abortion activist who was arguing with abortion rights activists outside the Supreme Court of the United States two days after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 26, 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.An abortion-rights activist holds a sign reading, “regulate your dicks,” outside the Supreme Court of the United States three days after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.View of the Supreme Court of the United States three days after a conservative majority struck down Roe v Wade, on June 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case and erases a federal right to an abortion.Wherever the unhoused went in Bloomington, and Monroe County in 2022, they were often evicted. More than 300 local residents are experiencing homelessness at any given time, and the synthetic meth and fentanyl epidemic, driven by cheap drugs from Mexico, has meant more are living, and dying on the streets.Bloomington Fire Department firefighters mop up after a fire in a homeless camp between College Avenue and Gourley Pike in the 2000 block of North Walnut Avenue on January 23, 2022, in Bloomington, Ind.Nancy, right, and another resident of a homeless camp behind the old K-Mart on W. Third Street, try to figure out what they’ll do after sheriff’s deputies told them the camp would be cleared, on May 18, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Some residents say they aren’t leaving, and because they have nowhere to go.Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies evict residents of a large homeless camp on county property behind the old K-Mart property on June 2, 2022, in Bloomington, Indiana. Another part of the camp on private property was cleared about two weeks ago, and then camps were destroyed by a mulching tractor. Residents were mostly gone by Thursday.Volunteer Beacon workers help unhoused residents of a large homeless camp move from county property during an eviction on June 2, 2022, in Bloomington, Indiana. Another part of the camp on private property was cleared about two weeks ago, and then camps were destroyed by a mulching tractor.The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office investigates after a shooting at a campsite in a homeless camp along the Bloomington Rail Trail on June 12, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana.Personal items, used syringes and trash are left behind after an eviction of unhoused residents of a large homeless camp on county property June 2, 2022, in Bloomington, Indiana. Another part of the camp on private property was cleared about two weeks ago, and then camps were destroyed by a mulching tractor.A homeless camp on Bloomington’s west side is in disarray while smoke from a still smoldering camp fire fills the air after residents are evicted on October 4, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana.A county worker helps clean up garbage left behind as members of the unhoused community are evicted from a large homeless camp on county property on June 2, 2022, in Bloomington, Indiana.The county spent more than 100,000-dollars clearing the camp.A shopping cart sits in a mulched area where a homeless camp once stood behind a strip mall on the westside, on November 7, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. A new tactic being implemented across the United States is cutting down all vegetation, or all trees, at sites used by unhoused Americans.Cedric Thompkins, who has been homeless since June 2022, pulls his possessions in a shopping cart past a car at a Tesla charging station on October 4, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana. Thompkins said he doesn’t know where he will go after residents of the nearby homeless camp, where he was living, were evicted suddenly by the police.
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