One of the images from the series of Crom © anp.
Pierre Crom has won the Silver Camera. Today he received the top award for photojournalists in the Netherlands for a series of pictures he made for the news agency Reuters at the scene of the MH17.
Pierre Crom with the Silver Camera © anp. 
The photo Careman which won a Silver Camera © Shody Careman. One of the winning photos of Crom shows the smoldering remains of the unit of Malaysia Airlines. Crom had just arrived in Ukraine to photograph the civil war when he heard about a crashed plane. Along with his driver, he located the crash site and there was the first photographer. His images won in the category Coins series.
The presentation of the award, carrying a cash prize of 2500 euros, took place in the Museum of Photography in The Hague.
AD photographer Shody Careman won prizes. She took a picture of the family of her mother, that all together in the living room slept in one of the last nights of her life.
Photograph of Pim Ras © Pim race. In the Sport category fell AD photographer Pim Race twice in prices. He won the Silver Camera for his photo of Robin van Persie, who scored in the World Cup match Netherlands-Spain and for his series of photographs of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
The National Portrait Award went to photographer Gerard Wessel a portrait of Katja Römer-Schuurman from a series he made for Volkskrant Magazine. Prize for innovative photojournalism landed at Love Radio (among others) and Eefje Blankevoort Anoek Steketee. They made photography, moving image, text, audio and interactive graphics on the reconciliation process in Rwanda, twenty years after the genocide.
For the Silver Camera were 42 pictures nominated in seven categories such as domestic news, entertainment , sports and portraits. For the price 664 participants submitted a total of 5397 images. The jury consists of photographers, photo editors and journalists. The prize was awarded for the 62nd time. The winning and nominated photographs can be seen in the next five weeks in the Photo Museum in The Hague.
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