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JUDGES - FALL '06 WPJA CONTEST
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SUSAN WALSH, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Susan Walsh has worked as a staff photographer for the Associated
Press for the last 15 years covering everything from Presidents
to Patriots—the
ones from New England, or course! In 1999, Walsh was part of
the Associated Press team to win the Pulitzer Prize in feature
photography for the coverage of the impeachment trial of President
Clinton. Most recently, Walsh served as president of the White
House News Photographers Association (www.whnpa.org) from 2001
to 2006.
Walsh, who attended Boston University, began her photojournalism
career as a freelance photographer in Boston and then landed
a staff job with the AP. After six years in the Boston bureau,
she transferred to the Washington bureau after being bit by the
political bug covering President Clinton’s
second inauguration in 1997. She truly enjoys the front-row seat
to history that photojournalism allows. In addition to political
coverage, Walsh has in her share of sports assignments, including
many Super Bowls and four Olympic games.
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DENIS FINLEY, EDITOR IN CHIEF
Denis Finley is the editor of The Virginian-Pilot, a 200,000 circulation
daily newspaper. Denis graduated with honors in 1975 from Philadelphia's
Temple University. After a long hiatus from school, he received his master's
degree in journalism with kappa tau alpha honors from the University of Missouri
in 1987. Denis began his journalism career at The Virginian-Pilot in 1987
as a photographer, became photo editor in 1993, followed by jobs as features
editor and news editor before becoming deputy managing editor for presentation
in 1999. In that position, Denis guided The Virginian-Pilot to recognition
by the Society for News Design as one of the world's best designed newspapers
in 2001. Denis was named managing editor in 2003 and editor in 2005. Denis
has served as visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute and has twice
been a Pulitzer Prize juror, judging breaking news photography and feature
photography. In 2005, Denis chaired the photo jury. While at Missouri Denis
was named College Photographer of the Year and won Best-in-Show and college
photographer of the year at the Southern Short Course. While at The Pilot,
Denis was named NPPA Region 3 Photographer of the Year among numerous other
awards, including the Pictures of the Year competition. The Pilot has won
Best-in-Show for news design from The Virginia Press Association for nine
consecutive years, the public service award two years in a row and dozens
of SND and national Pictures of the Year awards.
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JAY DICKMAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jay Dickman is a National Geographic photographer; he has photographed
more than 25 assignments for the Society. Jay was a participating
photographer
on 15 of the Day in the Life Of series; also a photographer on “Passage
to Vietnam” and was featured on the interactive CD ROM. Jay has photographed
for publications such as National Geographic Adventure, Conde Nast Traveler,
FORTUNE, Forbes, American Way Magazine, and TIME. Jay, an “Olympus
Visionary” and
a “Lexar Elite Photographer”, also has to
his credit the Pulitzer Prize, many national and regional awards, and was
most recently an instructor for a series of classes in ‘Advanced Digital
Photography’ at
the 2006 “MacWorld” in San Francisco. McGraw-Hill recently
published Perfect Digital Photography, co-authored by Jay Dickman: a start-to-finish
guide to digital photography, discussing the aesthetics of photography,
workflow
and working in Photoshop.
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GROVER SANSCHAGRIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Grover is a former newspaper photojournalist who is a founder
of various photography-related Internet projects. He is Vice President
of Marketing for PhotoShelter, and Executive Producer for SportsShooter.com.
His experience with online productions
also include being Manager of Interactive
Product Development for ChicagoTribune.com, and the Director of
Product Development for Quokka Sports.
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BRADLEY E. CLIFT, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Brad
has traveled to 44 countries and 45 states on assignment. He has been a part
of over 5,000 newspaper articles and his work has been published in most
major magazines including Stern, Time, Newsweek and Paris Match.
Clift was named national photographer of the year twice, and he was a six-time
winner or runner-up of the Northern photographer of the Year competition.
He has been honored with four Silver awards in SND and countless individual
awards including portfolio year after year in that competition. He has garnered
over 25 Pictures of the Year awards, and was recently named the first ever
Master Photographer of New England by the Associated Press.
Clift began to develop his documentary style and interest in international
affairs while at the Hartford Courant. He was invited to work on the Day
in the Life books along with 50 of the world‚s leading photojournalists.
Clift also participated in 10 Harper Collins book projects including Jews
in America, Christmas in America, Baseball in
America, and The Power to Heal. Moreover, Clift participated
in A Day in the Life of Italy, A Day in the Life of
Ireland and A Day in the Life of China. He was shooting
for the latter book when the student movement broke out around Tiananmen
Square in 1989.
He has covered two World Series, two Superbowls, two NCAA national championship
basketball games, and two national political conventions. He has photographed
four presidents. In 1995, Clift traveled around in the world visiting 10
countries for a story on how the mentally ill are treated.
Clift spent most of his earlier years with the Courant honing a documentary
style of work that he employed on a personal project titled, Addiction
in America. For 12 years he documented addictions in various stages.
In l999 he won the Kodak Crystal Eagle award for impact in photojournalism,
presented by Pictures of the Year and NPPA, and Kodak. In keeping with that
work and the affects of addiction, Clift undertook a six month project through
which he captured images of what Heroin was doing to a small town in Connecticut.
Heroin Town, the story of rampant drug addiction and its affects on Willimantic,
Connecticut was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2003 for feature photography
for Clift.
Continuing to work on American Life and addiction as well as international
stories, Clift has become one of the most important documentary photographers
working today. Last year he was arrested, detained and tortured for attempting
to obtain photographs and interviews with victims of genocide in Darfur,
Sudan. Clift has recently left the Hartford Courant to work freelance.
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