We've Got a Winner: Adweek's Ava DuVernay Cover Portrait Honored by Communication Arts

Photographer Scott Witter on getting the shot in less than an hour and the playlist that made the filmmaker smile

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Last year, we were thrilled to feature director Ava DuVernay on the cover of Adweek’s 2018 Creative 100 issue, and now we’re just as excited to announce that the portrait, shot for Adweek at the Los Angeles headquarters of Array Now, DuVernay’s production company, by photographer Scott Witter, was named a winner in the editorial/entertainment category of Communication Arts magazine’s 60th annual photography competition. It’s quite an honor—out of over 3,000 entries, only 134 were chosen by a five-person jury of creative professionals.

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