Epoch Times photographer John Fredricks won two first-place awards for images captured during two dangerous assignments last year.
On June 18, the Orange County Press Club awarded him “Best Feature Photo” for documenting anti-cartel police operations in Sonora, Mexico.
Fredricks also won “Best Photo Essay” for covering activists’ repeated clashes with police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Portland, Oregon.
“It was definitely a hot year for news,” Fredricks told a fellow Epoch Times reporter in a June 18 interview.
When presenters announced Fredricks’s win at the Anaheim Hills Country Club, they acknowledged the photographer “went into harm’s way to bring us back those images,” Fredricks said, “and I was very appreciative of that.”…