Oakwood photojournalist wins Emmy

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Larry C. Price has won a national Emmy.

The former Dayton Daily News director of photography and Oakwood resident was part of a team of journalists nominated for “Diving into the Philippines’ Dangerous, Underwater Mines,” which aired on PBS NewsHour on Feb. 17, 2015. The Philippines ranks 18th in total gold production in the world.

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards were announced Monday, Sept. 28, in New York City.

Price produced the documentary, which focuses on the practice of diving into water he described in a recent interview with the Dayton Daily News as having the consistency of “a chocolate milkshake … It’s dangerous because it’s unstable, especially dealing with the tide. The water is moving.”

Entire families worked in this mining process. Children as young as 6 years old shoveled, panned and sacked the ore while teenagers were involved in the diving itself.

After the documentary aired, the Philippine parliament banned underwater minging, citing the NewsHour piece.

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