Oxford student Ryan Li clicked his shutter and captured in a frame the drama of one of the world's biggest stories - the spread of the killer SARS virus. Now his picture of a mask seller in Hong Kong has won him the title of Student Photographer of the Year at the Guardian Student Media Awards. The judges said of it: "The sense of chaos told the story of SARS very quickly. "He has used the instinct of a news photographer to capture a big story very well." Ryan is a contributor to Cherwell, the Oxford University student newspaper. Clare Bevis, also from Cherwell, won the runner up award in the Student Feature Writer of the Year category. She also writes theatre reviews for BBCi Oxford (click here to see her latest piece). They received their awards from TV presenters Colin Murray and Edith Bowman at a ceremony in central London. This year's judging panel included Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, Rebekah Wade, editor of the Sun, and TV's Jonathan Ross and Jon Snow.
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