The WPJA thanks the following AWARD WINNING PHOTOJOURNALISTS for their time and talent.

The Judges for the 2002 WPJA contest were:

1. Matt Mendelsohn - 2002 Wedding Photojournalist Association Contest Judge

Matt Mendelsohn was one of the judges for the Wedding Photojournalist Association's 2002 photography contest. We welcome Matt as one of our members and thank him for his contribution to the WPJA.

During his four years at United Press International (UPI), Matt covered hundreds of professional sporting events, spent two months in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, and was a part of the first-ever Department of Defense media pool during the invasion of Panama. He also worked for USA Today and learned the finer art of photographing celebrities and spent years covering the White House and Capitol Hill.

After a stint as photo editor of the News section of USA Today, Mendelsohn moved upstairs to USA Weekend magazine as Director of Photography. The nation's second-largest circulation magazine, USA WEEKEND reaches 22 million households each Sunday. He left USA Weekend in August, 2001 to pursue freelance assignments.

Mendelsohn is a 1984 graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton. He received a BA in English Literature, studying the works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner.

Matt was recently a guest speaker at the National Press Photographer Association's Northern Short Course held March 13-15 in Jersey City, NJ in 2003. Matt lectured on how wedding photography has become a lucrative business for photojournalists.

Matt Mendelsohn is actively shooting weddings (Virginia based) and is listed on the WPJA web site with a link to his wedding photography site:

Matt Mendelsohn

Please take a moment to view his work.

2. Amy Deputy was one of the judges for the Wedding Photojournalist Association's 2002 photography contest. We welcome Amy as one of our members and thank her for her contribution to the WPJA.

Amy received her BA in Photojournalism and Psychology from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She was a picture editor at the Baltimore Sun and worked as a photographer at the Baltimore Sun and the Bremerton Sun. She trained at National Geographic, the Sacramento Bee, the Chicago Tribune, and the Register-Guard.

Her newspaper photojournalism and picture editing work received national awards from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Scripps Howard Foundation, Society of Newspaper Design, University of Missouri's Photographer of the Year, Atlanta Seminar of Photojournalism, The Nikon Foundation, and the National Press Photographers Association. She was also named the National College Photographer of the Year.

Amy Deputy is actively shooting weddings (Maryland based) and is listed on the WPJA web site with a link to her wedding photography site:

Amy Deputy Photography

Please take a moment to view her work.