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JUDGES - WINTER '06 WPJA CONTEST
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DAMON WINTER, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Damon Winter, 31, is a senior staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times. He has previously
worked for The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, Magnum Photos as well as The Ventura County Star (CA) and Indianapolis Star. Damon has worked on stories including
New York September 11, 2001, post-Taliban Afghanistan, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, overseas adoptions in Russia and India, ballet in Cuba and most recently,
the conflict in Israel and Lebanon.
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
The Associate Press – Freelance Photographer 1997
Newsweek Magazine – Photo Intern 1997
Magnum Photos Inc. - Photo Intern 1997
Columbia University – B.A. Environmental Science 1993-1997
Eddie Adams Workshop – Student 1996
AWARDS:
NPPA/Missouri POY: 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
NPPA Best of Photojournalism: 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
NPPA Newspaper Photographer of the Year (Region 8): 2002
Communication Arts Photo Annual: 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Communication Arts Magazine: Feature Article May/June 2005
Press Club of Dallas Katie Award: 2004 (Silver), 2003, 2002
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar: 2002, 2001
Society of News Design: 2002 (Portfolio)
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TIM BROEKEMA, PROFESSOR
Tim Broekema is an associate professor of Photojournalism
/ New Media at Western Kentucky University located in Bowling Green, Ky.
Broekema’s career started in 1984 when he left his hometown of Kalamazoo, Mich. and by chance took a photography class at Western Kentucky. He continued
to develop a passion for photojournalism and eventually landed a part-time picture editing job for the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper. He then moved on to
the Providence Journal where he worked as a sports and business page picture editor and designer. Then, just as Michael Jordan was becoming a household name,
Broekema was called up to the Chicago Tribune where he worked as sports picture editor for 8 years. Once Jordan retired (for a second time) Broekema decided it
was time to go home and convinced his childhood hometown newspaper to hire him as a Director of Photography. He worked there as a manager for nearly four years
before realizing that you never really can go home again so he went for the next best thing and became a professor of photojournalism at the same school that
introduced photography to him twenty years earlier.
Broekema has had his hand in multiple awards including a team Pulitzer Prize and seven Photographer of the Year International recognitions in picture editing,
shooting and new media categories. He was also a member of the Chicago Tribune design team when the Society of News Design called the newspaper the Best Designed
in the world. Western Kentucky has won the coveted Hearst Photojournalism competition 15 times, the contest started 17 years ago. Students of his have also won,
or placed, in multiple awards including College Photographer of the Year and individual Hearst awards. In addition, since 1999, former Western photo students have
been involved in the Breaking News or Feature Photography categories of the Pulitzer Prize six times.
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ALLISON V. SMITH, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Allison Smith has traveled to Bosnia, the Baltic States and Cuba on assignment for the
Dallas Morning News. Allison has won several awards for her photojournalism including 2 awards of excellence from the National Press Photographers Association
Pictures of the Year contest and in 1997 was named Master Photographer of the Year by the Texas Headliner Foundation. On the weekends, Allison pursues her
personal work- portraits of friends and portraits of small towns.
EXPERIENCE:
Dallas Morning News, staff photographer, 1998-2004
Maine Photographic Workshop, Photo I course instructor, August 2003
Fort Worth Star Telegram, staff photographer, 1996-1998
Santa Fe New Mexican, staff photographer, 1995-1996
Albuquerque Journal, photography intern, fall 1994
Denton Record Chronicle, photographer, 1993-1994
Los Angeles Times, photography intern, summer 1993
Dallas Times Herald, photography intern, 1990
HONORS:
2006 selected to appear in American Photography 22 annual
2006 website selected to appear in PDN's 2006 Photo Annual
2001 Press Club of Dallas Katie Award, feature photo
2000 National Press Photographers Association POY contest, award of excellence,
feature photo
1999 Associated Press Managing Editors , 1999, second place feature photo
1997 Texas Headliner Foundation, Master Photographer of the Year
1995 New Mexican Press Association, 1995, first place, general news
1993 Eddie Adams Workshop, award of excellence
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MARCUS BLEASDALE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Marcus Bleasdale 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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DAVID H. WELLS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
David H. Wells is a freelance photographer based in Providence, Rhode Island. An
editorial, commercial and location photographer working across New England, he focuses on photo-essays for publication and exhibition. He is an award-winning,
digitally capable photographer, producing images for local, national and international clientele. Past assignments have been for Life Magazine, National
Geographic Publications, the New York Times Magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, to name a few.
His photo-essays have focused on globalization in India and Bangladesh, the pesticide poisoning of farm workers in California, the lives of South Asian
immigrants in America, the challenges facing fishermen in New England as well as the complex relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. He has done work for
numerous corporations including Consolidated Natural Gas and DuPont. He has also worked for a number of non-profit organizations including Brown University, the
Ford Foundation and the New Israel Fund, among others. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Creative Eye and the National Press
Photographer’s Association.
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GORDON WELTERS, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Gordon Welters is a photojournalist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Gordon was born in 1974
in East Germany. In 1997 he did a photography traineeship at the German newspaper Junge Welt. Since 1998 he has been working as a freelance editorial and reportage
photographer for a variety of national and international clients, covering news and personal projects in Europe and abroad. In 2003/04 Gordon studied photojournalism at
the London College of Communication. Since 2006 he is represented by Laif.
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THEA BREITE, PHOTO EDITOR
Thea Breite has recently been named the online photo and multimedia editor at the Boston Globe, working to help the photo staff be a daily, full-time
participant in the web initiatives of the Globe.
Prior to the she was the photo editor for the business and metro sections at the paper. For 10 years she worked
as a picture editor, director of photography and Asst. Managing Editor/Visuals at the Providence Journal and after that she took some time off to be with her
daughter and study in a new media certificate program at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked at a variety of other newspapers as a picture editor
and photographer, including the Orange County Register and the Journal Tribune in Biddeford, ME. Four of the newspapers she worked at won either POY’s Best Use
of Pictures award and/or Team Picture Editing awards during her Tenure.
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WARREN CLARKE, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Warren Clarke is a founding member of Oculi, a collective of some of Australia’s
most renowned Photojournalists. Based in Sydney, Australia, Warren has been working as a photographer for the past 18 years starting his career in London.
Editorial and Corporate clients have included Douwe Egbert, CSR Limited, Ernst & Young, Sunbeam, Atlas Copco and BP, his work has been published in The
Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times, London Independent, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Newsweek and The South China Morning Post as well as
periods spent working with Reuters and Associated Press. He has covered issues from the South Pacific & Asia through The Middle East to Africa and South
America.
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BROOKS JOHNSON, CURATOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Brooks Johnson is the Curator of Photography at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk,
Virginia. Johnson was instrumental in instituting the museum's photography program in 1978 after the opening of the Alice and Sol B. Frank Photography Gallery. Since
that time the gallery has expanded several times and now consists of five galleries of 2,750 square feet. Johnson has directed the growth of the museum collection to
approximately 4,000 objects spanning the entire history of photography, organized more than 100 exhibitions, and has published more than two dozen books/catalogues
including:
Photography Speaks, 2005 (Aperture); Shooting Stalin, The Wonderful Years of Photographer James Abbe, 2004 (Steidl): Pictures Tell The Story: Ernest C. Withers,
2000; American Color Photographs by Constantine Manos, 1995 (W.W. Norton); Living With AIDS: A Photographic Journal by Sal Lopes, 1994 (Bulfinch Press); An Enduring
Interest: The Photographs of Alexander Gardner, 1991; Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen Through the Farm Security Administration Photographs,
1985. (Books published by the Chrysler Museum unless otherwise indicated.)
Johnson has been employed by the Chrysler Museum since 1977 and holds the M.A. degree, 1985, from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, the B.F.A. degree, 1976, from
The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, is a graduate of Museum Management Institute, 1988, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and attended the
Parsons/New School for Social Research Summer Photography Program, 1980, in Arles, France.
Johnson has served as a panelist/reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Houston FotoFest, PhotoAmericas, the
Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Friends of Photography, San Francisco. He has appeared in media such as the Arts and Entertainment Network,
BBC Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, and PBS TV WNET in New York and WHRO in Norfolk. He is also on the staff of the Truth With A Camera workshop, held annually at the Chrysler Museum since 2000.
In 2006, Brooks was one of three judges for the International Center of Photography's Infinity Awards.
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ED KASHI, PHOTOJOURNALIST
Ed
Kashi is a photojournalist dedicated to documenting the
social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive
eye
and an intimate relationship to his subjects have become the
signatures of his award-winning work. Kashi’s complex
imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of
the human condition.
Born in New York City in 1957, Kashi graduated from Syracuse
University in 1979 with a degree in photojournalism and has
since photographed in over 60 countries. His images have appeared
in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time,
Fortune, Geo, Newsweek, MSNBC.COM, and many other domestic
and international publications.
The February 2007 edition of National Geographic contains Kashi’s
11th major story for the magazine since 1991. “Curse
of the Black Gold, Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta” chronicles
the negative impact of oil development on the impoverished
Niger Delta. His first project for National Geographic was
a cover story on the Kurds. It was subsequently published as
his second monograph, When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle
of the Kurds (Pantheon). Most recently, Kashi’s innovative
approach to photography and filmmaking produced the Iraqi /
Kurdistan Flipbook, which premiered on MSNBC.com in December
2006. Using stills in a moving image format, this creative
and thought-provoking form of visual storytelling has garnered
an award from the 26th annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival
(2007) and will be utilized in an upcoming series of exhibitions
on the Iraq War being presented at The George Eastman House.
Kashi’s personal projects include documentary work on
the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, self-published
in a book titled, The Protestants: No Surrender. This study
would set the tone for future explorations of groups in conflict
who have been neglected by the mainstream media. In the mid-90's,
Kashi spent several years documenting the lives of Jewish settlers
in the West Bank. The settlers' story has been published worldwide,
and a photograph from this essay received an award in the World
Press Photo 1995 competition.
In 2003, Kashi completed an eight-year project called Aging
in America: The Years Ahead, which included a traveling exhibition,
an award-winning documentary film, a website, and a book. Published
in the fall of 2003 by powerHouse Books, this work examines
the social impact of the expanding elderly population in the
United States. Features from this project have won awards from
the Pictures of the Year and World Press Photo, and have been
chosen for the American Photography and Communication Arts
annuals. The book was named one of the best photo books of
2003 by American Photo Magazine.
Between editorial assignments and personal projects, Kashi
teaches and mentors students of photography, participates in
forums, and lectures on photojournalism, documentary photography,
and multi-media storytelling. In 1998, he taught a semester
in London for Syracuse University.
In December 2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie
Winokur founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit multimedia
company that explores significant social issues. The first
documentary project for Talking Eyes Media produced a book
and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied:
The Crisis of America's Uninsured. The book was published in
March 2003, and the exhibition continues to travel across America.
“
I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity
and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images
to change people’s minds. I’m driven by this fact;
that the work of photojournalists and documentary photographers
can have a positive impact on the world. The access people
give to their lives is precious as well as imperative for this
important work to get done. Their openness brings with it a
tremendous sense of responsibility to tell the truth but to
also honor their stories.”
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