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JUDGES: WINTER 2004 CONTEST
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STANDARD SECTION JUDGES
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DARCY PADILLA, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Darcy Padilla is a San Francisco based documentary photographer.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post,
Life Magazine, Harpers Bazaar and Graphis.
Since 1990, Padilla has chronicled the lives of American poor. In
1997, the United Nations selected her project on Steven for the
UNAIDS exhibition in Geneva. She’s recipient of numerous grants
and awards including that from the Alexia Foundation Award, the
Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship and prestigious John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
 DarcyPadilla.com
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JOHN KAPLAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST / AUTHOR
John Kaplan’s ‘Diverse Lifestyles of American 21-Year-Olds’
project won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. His
work shows at museums and galleries worldwide including solo exhibitions
in the United States, Bolivia and Korea as well as group shows in
the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Japan, Korea, Canada, South Africa,
Australia and New Zealand.
Kaplan is 1989 Photographer of the Year for the annual Pictures
of the Year (POY) contest and received the Robert F. Kennedy Award
for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged in the United States.
Kaplan is photography, design and international journalism professor
at the University of Florida. He is twice photography juror for
the Pulitzer Prize and is a frequent lecturer at photo workshops
and seminars worldwide.
Kaplan's ‘Survivors of Torture in West Africa’ project
won the 2003 Overseas Press Club Award for Feature Photography and
the Harry Chapin Media Award for Photojournalism, and received recognition
from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, National Headliner Awards,
Best of Photojournalism Competition, Pictures of the Year International,
Society of News Design and Photo District News Best of Photography
Contest. Kaplan is author of Photo Portfolio Success (Writers Digest
Books) and has beta-tested digital wedding album production techniques
for two companies, including ArtZ.
JohnKaplan.com
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WILL YURMAN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Will Yurman has worked as both staff and freelance photojournalist
for more than two decades. Yurman won 2003 NPPA Region 2 Photographer
of the Year and several POYi and Best of Photography awards for
his multimedia compositions.
Yurman is published in U.S. News & World Report, The Times of
London, The Miami Herald, The New York Times and The Sydney Morning
Herald. His experience spans multiple continents from Juneau, Alaska,
to Jerusalem. He’s currently staff photographer for the Rochester,
New York Democrat and Chronicle.
WillYurman.com
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CHRIS CURRY, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Chris Curry began his career at Houston’s Lufkin Daily News.
His elevation in photojournalism quickly migrated to Burlington,
Iowa’s The Hawk Eye followed by the Peoria Journal Star in
central Illinois.
Curry is recipient of the Cliff Edom New America Award, the Missouri
School of Journalism Photographer of the Year and the Japanese Sasakawa
Sports Foundation’s Canon Award. Most recently, Curry facilitated
for the 2004 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, participated in a
five-city tour and presented at the National Press Photographers
Association’s Flying Short Course.
SportsShooter.com
Portfolio
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ANN JOHANSSON, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Ann Johansson is a freelance photojournalist based in Los Angeles
where she regularly shoots for the New York Times, Associated Press,
the Los Angeles Times as well as many other publications. Johansson
also covers political and cultural events internationally and is
currently working on a long-term project for the Klimahaus, a museum
that will open 2007 in Germany.
AnnJohansson.com
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TOM REESE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Tom Reese’s work is professionally recognized and honored by
the Associated Press, the World Press Photo Foundation, the Society
of Professional Journalists, Pictures of the Year, Best of Photojournalism
and World in Focus. His career spans the The Herald in Everett,
Washington; The Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri; The
Kansas City Times and the St. Louis Suburban Journals. He has been
a Reporter, Picture Editor, Page Designer, Graphics Editor and Assistant
Director of Photography and Graphics. Reese, a photojournalist at
the Seattle Times for 17 years, earned his Journalism degree from
the University of Missouri.
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ANNIE WELLS, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PHOTO EDITOR
Annie Wells is staff photographer and picture editor at the Los
Angeles Times. Prior to this, she was a photographer at the Santa
Rosa Press Democrat, Calif., for eight years. She has also been
a technical photographer for Letterman Army Institute of Research
on the Presidio in San Francisco.
Wells won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot news. Her photos are
part of the permanent collection in the National Museum of Women
in the Arts. She is a graduate of the University of California at
Santa Cruz, where she majored in science writing. She fell in love
with the camera while taking a photojournalism class at the university.
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FRANCIS GARDLER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Fran Gardler won 2004 NPPA Region 3 Photographer of the Year. A
1994 graduate of Western Kentucky University's photojournalism program,
Gardler joined Patuxent Publishing Company in 1996 after working
at the The News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. While
at Western Kentucky University he did internships at The Los Angeles
Times; Patuxent Publishing Company; The Syracuse Newspapers; The
Flint (Mich.) Journal and the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen-Patriot. A
native of Philadelphia, Gardler also received first place in the
General Division / Sports Portfolio at the Sixty-First Annual Pictures
of the Year International Competition sponsored by the University
of Missouri.
SportsShooter.com
Portfolio
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ENHANCED IMAGE JUDGES
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MICHAEL A. SCHWARZ, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Michael A. Schwarz is an independent editorial, and corporate photojournalist
based in Atlanta, Georgia. His work has been published internationally
in publications like USA Today, Fortune, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, LIFE, National Geographic,
The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, U.S. News &
World Report, Business Week and Forbes. His corporate clients have
included The Home Depot and The Coca-Cola Company.
Over a 25-year career, Michael has completed more than 6,000 assignments.
Michael has received a number of awards from the Pictures of the
Year competition and was a winner of the Dag Hammarskjöld Award
for Human Rights Advocacy Journalism. His photographs appear in
the book "The Newtown Story:One Community's Fight for Environmental
Justice.", published in 1998.
Schwarz is a Baltimore native and a graduate of the Rochester Institute
of Technology (RIT). He serves on the Board of Directors of the
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and was a co-founder of Weddingbureau.com.
Michael maintains memberships in Editorial Photographers (EP), National
Press Photographers Association (NPPA), American Society of Media
Photographers (ASMP), National Association of Photoshop Professionals
(NAPP) and the Atlanta Press Club (APC).
He is currently doing digital photography consulting for professionals
and consumers through his affiliation with Blue Pixel and is a featured
instructor of the Nikon Digital School.
MichaelSchwarz.com
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GLEN WEXLER, ARTIST / PHOTO ILLUSTRATOR
Glen Wexler photographed his first album cover for Quincy Jones
Productions while still a student at Art Center College of Design.
He quickly gained a reputation for his imaginative and elaborate
photo illustrations for Michael Jackson, KISS, Van Halen, Rush,
Black Sabbath, Yes, ZZ Top and many others.
During the mid 1980's Glen's images began to attract advertising
clients. His signature style has earned an international client
base that reaches from Milan, Italy to Tokyo Japan. Clients include
Acura, Sony, Maxwell, Adobe, Microsoft, Frito-Lay, Pfizer, Warner
Bros. Pictures and hundreds of others. Glen also creates feature
photo illustrations for TIME Magazine.
Glen was among the original artists to adopt digital imaging
technology as a tool in the creative process. He is recognized
worldwide as a leader in the field and he has been invited to
speak at the Seybold Conferences in New York and San Francisco,
the PhotoPlus Expos in New York and Los Angeles, and at colleges
across the country. Glen was also the founding chair of the Advertising
Photographers of America National Digital Committee.
Awards and recognition of Glen's images have been received from
Communication Arts, International Photography Awards, Graphis,
Photo District News, New York and Los Angeles Art Director's Clubs,
The Beldings, Icon Awards and Key Art Awards.
GlenWexler.com
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JOANNE HOYOUNG LEE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Joanne HoYoung Lee has worked as staff photographer at The San Jose
Mercury News, California, since 2000. Before this, she worked full-time
at The Hartford Courant, Connecticut. HoYoung Lee was born in Seoul,
Korea, emigrating to New York City in the late 70's.
Photo internships include: the New York State Assembly Photo Department
and Mary Ellen Mark Studio, which led to a part time position in
her studio conducting library archival. Joanne was a custom printer
at the Sarah Jenkin's fine photographic black and white printing
in New York City and the black and white printer at the Maine Photographic
Workshop during the summer of 1994. She attended the Maine Photographic
Workshop's six-month residency program. Joanne also worked as in-house
black and white printer in Annie Leibovitz's studio in New York
City.
Joanne's photos are published by the San Jose Mercury News, Hartford
Courant, Los Angeles Times, Contra Costa Times, Philadelphia Inquirer,
Associated Press and National Geographic Kids Magazine. She's recipient
of awards from NPPA and SFBAPPA (San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers
Association).
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BERT MONROY, ARTIST / AUTHOR / LECTURER
In 2004, Bert Monroy was inducted into the Photoshop
Hall of Fame
Bert was born and raised in New York City where he spent 20
years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative
director for various agencies as well as his own.
He embraces the computer as an artistic medium and is considered
one of the pioneers of digital art. Bert's work has been seen
in every major trade publication of the computer industry. His
work has also been featured in scores of books which include Making
Art on a Macintosh, The Photoshop WOW Book, The Illustrator WOW
Book, The Art of Digital Painting, The Grey Book and The Photoshop
A to Z in Japan.
Bert co-authored The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook, which
was the first book on Photoshop and the only one for almost two
years. It won various awards. He also co-authored Adobe Photoshop:
A Visual Guide to the Mac which was published in 14 languages,
Photoshop 4, published in Japan by Agosto and BNN, and Photoshop
Channel CHOPS.
In 2000 he released is first solo book from New Riders called
Bert Monroy: Photorealistic Techniques with Photoshop and Illustrator.
His second solo book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy is another
compilation of his techniques specifically for Photoshop 7.0.
January 2004 saw the introduction of Commercial Photoshop with
Bert Monroy.
Bert is an accomplished teacher and lecturer who has served on
the faculty of The School of Visual Arts (NYC), Center for Creative
Imaging (ME), Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation (IL), California
College of Arts & Crafts (CA) and lectures at many other institutions
and conferences around the world. He currently teaches at San
Francisco State University. He teaches a long roster of corporate
clients which includes Pixar Animations Studios. Bert is also
a featured speaker at many world-wide conferences and is part
of the Photoshop Dream Team of Photoshop World. Bert now lives
in Berkeley, California. He continues to serve his installed base
of clients which include Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Pioneer
Electronics, Fujitsu, SONY, AT&T, Chevron and American Express.
Bert has also done a considerable amount of film work for Industrial
Light & Magic, Pacific Data Images and R/Greenberg Assoc.
BertMonroy.com
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