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JUDGES: WINTER 2005 CONTEST
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JON LOWENSTEIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Jon Lowenstein is a native of Brookline, MA and a graduate of the University
of Iowa (1993). For the last decade, Jon has been a freelance photojournalist.
He has been published in Time, US News & World Report, Fortune, The New
York Times, and Mother Jones, to name a few.
In 1998 Jon was Region 5 POY for the NPPA. In 2001 he was
Magazine Photographer of the Year in the 58th annual Pictures
of the Year Competition. His latest acclaim comes through
Cliff Edom's 2005 "New America Award" for a 25-picture
photo essay called, "Pocket Town Kids: Passion, Hope,
and Connection on Chicago's Southside."
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MARCUS BLEASDALE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Marcus has now spent six years covering the brutal conflict within the borders
of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the work was published in his book “One
Hundred Years of Darkness”. The book is recognized in the best photojournalism
books of the year 2002 by Photo District News in the USA. He is widely published
in the UK, Europe and the USA in publications such as The Sunday Times Magazine,
The Telegraph Magazine, Geo Magazine, The New Yorker, TIME and Newsweek and
National Geographic Magazine.
Marcus has received acclaim on several occasions. Over
the years, he has received several First prizes in Picture
of the Year and NPPA awards. In 2004 he was awarded UNICEF
Photographer of the Year Award, the 3p Photographer Award
and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He has exhibited in New
York Moving Walls 2005 and was awarded the Open Society
Institute Distribution Grant 2005 for his work with Human
Rights Watch.
In 2005 Marcus was named Magazine Photographer of the
Year by POYi.
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KATHLEEN FLYNN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Kathleen Flynn came to the St. Petersburg Times as an intern in 2002 then
stayed as staff. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Kathleen interned
at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and later freelanced in the city. She
then studied Spanish while in Costa Rica documenting a ministry that works
with street children in San Jose. Since joining the Times
staff, in addition to community journalism, she's covered Haiti, the tsunami
in Thailand and has taken part in the Times extensive hurricane coverage
throughout the southern states. Her recent work includes a photograph she
made in New Orleans which was featured on the cover of Time Magazine following
Hurricane Katrina. She was named the National Press Photographers Association
Region 6 photographer of the year, 2004. The region includes the Carribbean,
Central and South America, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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BARRY CHIN, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Barry Chin, a 1982 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, has been
a staff photographer at the Boston Globe since 1987. Prior to working at
the Globe he was a staff photographer for the Boston Herald. He also worked
at the Hartford Courant as a full time freelancer. During Chin’s career
at the Boston Globe he received the National Headliners Award for Spot News
in 1989 for coverage of Hurricane Hugo. Barry was first place winner of the
International Olympic Committee’s Best of Sport Photographic Contests’ and “Golden
Lens Award” for his photo of US Olympic boxer David Reid’s gold
medal upset victory. That year he also won second place for Sports Picture
Story in The World Press Photo Contest and The National Headliners Award
for Sports Action, all for his coverage from the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games
in 1996.
Barry has also covered the 1992, 2002 and 2004 Olympic games. Barry
won Best of Show and 1st place Feature in the 2003 National Baseball
Hall of Fame Photo Contest and 1st place Action in 2004. He has received
numerous awards from the NPPA Press Photographers Association, the
Boston Press Photographers Association, and the Associated Press.
Most recently he received a 2nd place Sports portfolio award in 2004’s
POY and 1st place Sports portfolio award in NPPA’s Best of
Photojournalism. While he enjoys covering sports, Barry’s assignments
have recently taken him to Ireland, Spain, and India for feature
stories for the Globe. Barry is a long time resident of Marshfield,
Massachusetts where he resides with his wife Renee and his four children.
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DENNY SIMMONS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Denny Simmons, BJ '93 is a University of Missouri graduate, currently a photographer
with the Evansville Courier & Press. Past positions include picture editor
at the News Sun (Waukegan, Ill.), picture editor at the St. Joseph (Mo.)
News-Press, and photographer at the Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal-Courier.
Simmons was recently named NPPA Region 4 Photographer of the Year in 2004
(as well as 2002). He also serves as Region 4 Director. Simmons has been
Indiana News Photographers Association Photographer of the Year, and he has
won the INPA Clip POY five times. He was awarded the title of College Photographer
of the Year for work done in 1992. Simmons is married to Penny (yeah, Penny
and Denny) and they have two kids, Ben, 9, and Hannah, 7. They've also got
a 12-year-old Pembroke Welsh corgi named Jax.
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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.
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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.
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BRUCE STRONG, PHOTOJOURNALIST / PROFESSOR
As both a staff and freelance photojournalist over the past two decades,
Bruce has shot in about 60 countries, and his work has received many honors,
including California Photographer of the Year. His photographs have appeared
in Time Magazine, Newsweek, US News and World Report and various international
magazines, as well as The Orange County (Calif.) Register, where he was on
staff for 11 years.
Bruce is currently serving as the visiting professional at Ohio University
School of Visual Communication, where he previously was awarded the Knight
Fellowship in Newsroom Graphics Management and Publication Design. As a visiting
professional, Bruce continues to freelance, producing both still and video
projects, as well as teach graduate and undergraduate classes in photojournalism
and audio/video storytelling. Before going arriving at OU, he also served
as the Kellogg Public Policy Fellow at the University of Michigan Journalism
Fellowships Program, during which time he and his wife, Claudia, published
their first book, “Armenia: The Story of a Place in Essays & Images.” They
are now working on a second book, a guide for caregivers of Alzheimer’s
patients.
Bruce, along with Claudia and photographer Paul Rodriguez, also founded Photo
Night®, a monthly gathering of photographers created to quench a growing
thirst in the industry for camaraderie, community and discussion.
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CLAUDIA STRONG, CONVERGENCE JOURNALIST
As an aspiring reporter woefully unaware of alternate ways of telling good
stories, Claudia couldn't have guessed that her journey from Northwestern
University's Medill School of Journalism would lead her on a serendipitous
path toward a destiny in visual communication. But it did. And for nearly
two decades, she has explored that dimension of storytelling and added to
her writing and editing skills a solid visual vocabulary and understanding,
and with that the ability to combine words and images to tell good stories
well.
After 10 years at The Orange County (Calif.) Register, where she designed
for all the paper's news and features sections, Claudia added web and multimedia
design as well as book production to her repertoire, editing and designing "Armenia:
The Story of a Place in Essays & Images," a book she produced with
her husband, award-winning photojournalist Bruce Strong. Together they also
founded Photo Night® to encourage discussion, growth and camaraderie
among photographers interested in telling stories of significance.
Claudia currently freelances in various capacities, including photo editing,
web design and print design. And not unlike at the beginning of her career,
she continues to be drawn to new ways of telling good stories, which now
also include audio and moving images. Claudia, who has lectured at the Women
in Photojournalism Conference and at Ohio University School of Visual Communication,
is based in Athens, Ohio, where she lives with Bruce and their two boys.
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