PHOTO OF THE MONTH

July 2011

Dan Henry of the Chattanooga Times Free Press is the winner of the Photo of the Month for July 2011.  His photo shows Deshawn Freeman, center, as he shares his bicycle with relatives, from left, De'Asia Freeman, Qunyshia Johnson, Ranyshia Johnson, Tasia Scruggs and De'Shayla Green, outside of his Avondale residence in Chattanooga, Tenn. Wednesday. July 13, 2011.

July 2011

Aaron Hardin of The Jackson Sun is the winner of the Photo of the Month for June 2011.  In a June 25, 2011 photo, Reed Mitchell, 10, cleans his father Troy Mitchell's headstone at the Mitchell home on June 25, 2011. Troy Mitchell was killed in 2009. An inmate, Ameale Hudson, was released from the Madison County jail on Oct. 8, 2009, into the community supervision program. Police said he bought the gun used to kill Troy Mitchell the next day.

Henry and Hardin will each receive $100 for their contributions and their photos will be entered into the Photo of the Year contest.  Each month the AP selects a Photo of the Month for the best member-submitted news photo shared in cycle.

All photos shot by staff photographers or reporters of AP member newspapers in Tennessee and shared during the same publication cycle in which they were shot are eligible.

For information about the Photo of the Month or contributing photos to the AP, contact Mark Humphrey in Nashville at 615-373-9988 or 800-453-1282 or via e-mail at mhumphrey@ap.org.