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JUDGES: SUMMER 2005 CONTEST
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DAVID BURNETT, PHOTOJOURNALIST
David Burnett has been photographing the world for more than
35 years. He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 (B.A. Political
Science) and began working as a freelancer for Time, and later
Life Magazine, at first in Washington DC and Miami, and later
in South Viet Nam. After two years in Vietnam, and the demise
of Life weekly, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling
the world for their news department for two years.
In 1975 he co-founded Contact Press Images, in New York, and for
the the last three decades, he has traveled extensively, working
for most of the major photographic and general interest magazines
in the U.S. and Europe. His work encompasses News, Feature, and
People pictures, as well as landscapes and scenics. He is known
as someone who can, no matter how challenging the assignment,
return with The Picture.
His awards include Magazine Photographer of the Year from the
Pictures of the Year Competition, the World Press Photo of the
Year, and the Robert Capa Award from the Overseas Press Club,
to name but a few.
He continues working around the world, having traveled to more
than 75 countries, producing photographic essays for Time, Fortune,
ESPN Magazine, and many others as well as working on major Advertising
campaigns, including Union Bank of Switzerland, Kodak, Rolex,
Merck, and the U.S. Army.
DavidBurnett.com
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ERIC STRACHAN, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
Eric Strachan is the assistant managing editor/presentation at the
Naples Daily News in Southwest Florida, where he started as a staff
photographer in 1981. As a photographer his work has garnered numerous
awards in the National Press Photographers Association, Florida
Press Club and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. He was
named director of photography at the Daily News in 1991, and as
a photo director, graphics editor and now as AME, he has helped
to build and direct a staff at a newspaper that has gained a national
reputation for strong photojournalism and picture usage.
The Daily News has been recognized in the past eight years in
the Pictures of the Year Contest with an Award of Excellence,
one second-place and two first-place awards for Editing, Best
Use of Pictures in the 25,000 to 150,000 circulation category
and placed third in 2004 and 2002 for Best Use of Photography
in the Best of Photojournalism competition, where his individual
and team picture editing portfolios were awarded as well. The
60,000-circulation Daily News has also placed in the top ten in
the National Press Photographers Association Picture Editing Quarterly
Clip Contest. As AME, Strachan oversees the presentation and design
of the paper as well as the photography, graphic art and editorial
scanning departments.
He was named Designer of the Year for Scripps Howard newspapers
for his work in 1998, 2000 and again in 2002, the last win "retiring"
him from the contest and placing him in the Scripps "Hall
of Fame." He has served on the faculty of the Stan Kalish
Picture Editing Workshop for seven years and has also served on
the picture editing faculty of the Mountain Photography Workshops
sponsored by Western Kentucky University. He has also served as
a judge for the editing portion of the Best of Photojournalism
competition.
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ALICIA WAGNER CALZADA, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PRES. NPPA
Alicia is a staff photojournalist for Rumbo in San Antonio, Texas.
In June of 2005 she was elected President of the National Press
Photographers Association [NPPA]. Her work has been published in:
The Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Dallas Morning
News, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Detroit News,
Miami Herald, Washington Post, USA Today, St. Petersburg Times,
Philadelphia Daily News, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, New York Times,
Christian Science Monitor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times,
The Orlando Sentinel and The Advocate (Baton Rouge).
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JIM GEHRZ, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jim Gehrz grew up in St. Paul and attended Hamline University where
he graduated in 1979 with B.A. in English/Journalism. Gehrz worked
at the Worthington Daily Globe in southwestern Minnesota, before
becoming a staff photojournalist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
a position he held for nearly 14 years. In 1999 Jim came home to
work at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, then joined the photo staff
at the Minneapolis Star Tribune in late January 2004. He has been
named state Photographer of the Year ten times and one of his photographs
from Super Bowl XXXII was honored as the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Photograph of the Year. Recently Jim received the 2004 Scripps Howard
Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism and the
National Press Photographers Association named him the 2005 Newspaper
Photographer Of The Year. Also in 2005 Gehrz was one of three finalists
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in feature photography. Jim has three
children, Michael, Casie and Alyssa.
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MARK MIRKO, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Mark Mirko is a staff photographer at The Hartford Courant newspaper
(CT). He recently completed a Knight Fellowship at Ohio University
and was awarded 2002 NPPA Region 1 Still Photographer of the Year.
Mirko worked as a Staff Photographer at The Palm Beach Post from
1992-2000. In 1994 he was the Region 6 NPPA Photographer of the
Year and, in 1992, a team entry of the Post's Photographic coverage
of Hurricane Andrew's devastation was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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