WPJA CONTEST JUDGES FOR SPRING 2005 WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
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JUDGES: SPRING 2005 CONTEST


 

ELI REED, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PROFESSOR


Eli is currently a photojournalism professor at the University of Texas, School of Journalism, bringing to them his 40 years of photography experience. Previously he worked as a photojournalist for such publications as National Geographic, Time and Life.

Member of the Magnum Photos group since 1983, a 64 member cooperative that is by invitation only.

 

LINDA EPSTEIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PHOTO EDITOR


Graduated from Syracuse University in '89. Worked as a photographer for several newspapers in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio. Worked as both a picture editor and an assignments editor during her three years at the Washington Times. Joined Knight Ridder/Tribune, the 2nd largest wire service in the US, as a picture editor in March of 1999 and is now the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Photo Editor. Currently NPPA Region 3 Director. Member WHNPA.

 

MARK EDELSON, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PRESENTATION EDITOR


Mark Edelson is Presentation Editor at The Palm Beach Post, where he works with photographers, designers, reporters and editors on the packaging of stories throughout the paper.

He joined The Post as a picture editor in 1993, and since then has been named Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year eight times. He's also been the lead picture editor or designer for the Post team that has earned numerous awards at Best of Photojournlism, Pictures of the Year, Society for News Design and the Picture Editing Quarterly Clip Contest. Earlier this year, for work done in 2004 he was named Picture Editor of the Year at BOP, the Post won Best Use of Photography at POY and in the PEQCC, and the Post photo staff was a Pulitzer finalist for photographic coverage of Florida's 2004 hurricanes.

 

JEANIE ADAMS-SMITH, ASST PROF. OF PHOTOJOURNALISM


Award winning photographer based in Bowling Green, KY, where she is an Assistant Professor of photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. She worked at the Chicago Tribune for 10 years as a picture editor.

She has lectured at the Southwestern Photojournalism Conference and chaired a national Women in Photojournalism conference, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association.