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JUDGES - SUMMER '06 WPJA CONTEST
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The Summer 2006 WPJA Contest Judges:
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STEPHANIE SINCLAIR, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Stephanie Sinclair graduated from the University of Florida, with a BA in
Journalism and a minor in Fine Art Photography. She was hired by the Chicago
Tribune after college where she worked for five years. After covering the
war in Iraq, Stephanie quit her job and moved to Iraq and then Beirut, Lebanon
to work out of the region. She has since been published in Time, Newsweek,
Fortune, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Stern, German Geo and
Marie Claire among others.
Stephanie has earned several awards in the Pictures of the Year International
annual competition including a first place for a story she did on courthouse
weddings in Chicago. The Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Meritorious
Achievement Award 2000 was awarded to her for her involvement in a series
that the Chicago Tribune produced on the failure of death penalty in Illinois
and resulted in the governor to put a moratorium on capital punishment in
the state. Stephanie was also part of the paper’s team that won the
Pulitzer Prize for their documentation of problems within the airline industry
in 2000.
Stephanie’s work from Iraq and Afghanistan is currently on display
at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California to accompany
the collection "Breaking the Frame: Pioneering Women Photojournalists. "
In February 2005, her work was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer a
segment called Picturing Iraq. The Peace Museum displayed her images from
Iraq in an exhibit titled "Occupation " in Chicago, Illinois in
the Fall of 2004.
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AMI VITALE, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PICTURE EDITOR
Ami Vitale was based for several years in India and her photographs and stories
from events in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and Asia have appeared
in publications including Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York
Times Magazine, The Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine and USA
Today, among others. She has won numerous awards for work including:
World Press Photos 2003, Third place General News Story
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2003:Magazine photographer of the year
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2003:Third place International News Story
Photographer of the Year International: Third place Magazine Division / General
Reporting.
Magnum grant given in honor in Inge Morath
Spain’s 6th International Award of Photojournalism ‘Ciudad de
Gijon’
First Place for the 2002 Society of American Travel Writers Foundation
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award
Photo District News 2002 Up and Coming 30 young Photographers
PDN’s 2002 Best Website
Alexia Foundation’s Grant recipient to promote World Peace and Cultural
Understanding, 2000
Canadian National Magazine Awards Photojournalism Nominee for ‘The
War Next Door’, 2001
...and many more...
Ami Vitale attended the University of North Carolina and got a degree in
International Studies, before working for Associated Press as a picture editor
in New York and Washington, DC.
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JOHN SCANLAN, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
John Scanlan is the Director of Photography for the Hartford Courant newspaper
(CT-USA).
"I began my photojournalism career as a U.S. Army photographer -
1968 through 1972. I served in both Vietnam (1969) and Germany (1970-72).
In Vietnam I did pretty much whatever needed to be done photographically.
I was stationed in the Mekong Delta (Bien Thuy, five "clicks" outside
of Can Tho) and covered an area from the southern tip of South Vietnam
to a point just north of Saigon. I traveled a lot. I was scared but I was
young
and
it was a great adventure.
After returning to the States in 1972 I attended graduate school (photojournalism
sequence) at the University of Missouri in September 1973. This is where
I received my real photojournalism education. In 1980 I started my first
job as a newspaper photojournalist at a small newspaper on the Kansas/Oklahoma
border (Coffeyville), where I met my wife, Cindy. From there I went to
The Greeley Tribune in Colorado where I worked as a photographer and photo
editor from 1983 until 1986. I came to The Hartford Courant in 1986 as
a picture editor. In 1995 I was promoted to Deputy Director of Photography.
In 2000 I was promoted to Director of Photography. I've been here 20 years
this past March.
As director of photography I help the AME Photo/Graphics (Thom McGuire,
also an MU grad) run the department. Mostly, I direct. That is, I help
guide the photo editors, photographers, reporters and editors in visual
matters. I know that sounds vague, but my job is mostly one of guidance
and influence. That being said, Thom and I take a hands on approach to
the daily paper and have a strong say in its content and appearance. I
attend a lot of meetings with origination editors where we discuss and
plan upcoming stories. I also attend meetings with upper newsroom management
folks where we discuss and plan these things and also plan for the longer
term. More than anything I am a proselytizer for the impact and beauty
of photojournalism and design and their ability to communicate in an emotionally
powerful way.
The Hartford Courant is a 200,000 plus circulation newspaper in a neither
conservative nor liberal New England capitol city located approximately
halfway between Boston and New York City.
Our newspaper is one of the best visual newspapers in the country (not
simply my opinion) and has had a strong reputation in this area for years.
In 2001 we were voted "one of the 10 best designed newspapers in the
world" by the Society of News Design (SND). We were the only newspaper
in that category from the U.S. We also won that award in 2004. We also
won the highest award for photojournalism from SND in 2001. That year we
also won the Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in (Picture) Editing Award
for Newspapers at the annual Pictures of the Year, International (POYi)
contest. We also won the Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in (Picture)
Editing Award for Newspapers in 2002 and 2003 - the only newspaper to win
this award three times. And in 2006 we won 1st place for Best Use of Photography
by Newspapers over 75,000 circulation in the National Professional Photographers
Association (NPPA) annual Best of Photojournalism contest."
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BARBARA DAVIDSON, PHOTOJOURNALIST
A native of Montreal, Canada, Barbara received a BFA in Photography and Film
studies from Concordia University. She worked as a staff photographer for
The Record in Southern Ontario before crossing the border to work for the
Washington Times in D.C.
The 2006 Pictures of the Year International Competition named Barbara Davidson
of The Dallas Morning News as newspaper photographer of the year.
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TORSTEN KJELLSTRAND, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Torsten Kjellstrand is a staff photojournalist at The Oregonian.
He previously worked as a staff photojournalist at The Herald
in Jasper, Indiana and at The
Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. In 1995, he was named POY Newspaper
Photographer of the Year. He was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University in
2003-4. Torsten graduated from Carleton College with an English
degree, after which he
spent a year at Uppsala University studying literature as a Fulbright Scholar.
He earned a masters in journalism and from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
As a boy, Torsten came to this country from Sweden. He has two children, Bjorn
and Maria; two dogs, Solo and Laces; three canoes; four bicycles; eight pairs
of Nordic skis; and one wife, Jean.
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MARK MIRKO, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Mark Mirko is currently a photojournalist with the The Hartford
Courant in Connecticut.
2002 NPPA Region 1 Still Photographer of the Year.
Worked as a Staff Photographer at The Palm Beach Post from 1992-2000.
In 1994 Mark was the Region 6 NPPA POY.
In 1992 a team entry of the Post's Photographic coverage of Hurricane
Andrew's devastation was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. |
You can view past WPJA contest judges by clicking on the link
in the left navigation of this page, conveniently called 'List
of Past Judges'. This list exemplifies the caliber of individuals
that we continually seek to judge the work submitted for WPJA
contests.
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