The Wedding Photojournalist Association's v01 photography competition for 2019.
2019 v01 Photography Competition
Contest Judges
WPJA Judge from 2007 - 2022 - (October 18, 1957 – April 16, 2022) - Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was a Dallas-based photojournalist and visual artist, freelancing in still and video photography. He worked as a newspaper photographer from 1977 to 2008. Leeson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times prior to winning the award in 2004 for photographs made for The Dallas... Read more
WPJA Judge since 2009 - Michael Ainsworth is a former staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News. A graduate of The University of Texas at Arlington, with a degree in journalism, he has won awards for his coverage of spot news and sports. He was one of the staffers at the DMN who were honored to receive the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina and... Read more
WPJA Judge since 2006 - Susan Walsh has worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press since 1991. Walsh started in the Boston bureau but transferred to Washington in 1997 and traded in covering traditional sports for the sport of politics. In 1999, Walsh was part of the Associated Press team to win the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a collection of photographs of the key... Read more
WPJA Judge since 2018 - Jen Tse is a photo editor and writer based in New York. In 2017, she was Newsweek's acting Director of Photography. Prior to Newsweek, she worked for TIME Magazine, NOOR Images, and 500px. She worked as a visual journalist and editor in Toronto, Berlin, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Bangkok before moving to New York in 2015. Her photo editing, photography,... Read more