2003 (#2) WPJA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST JUDGES:
1.
Anne Ryan was a staff photographers for USA Today
for ten years covering all types of assignments including
four trips to the Olympic Games. She has been nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize by both the Sun-Sentinel and USA
Today. She has also received numerous photojournalism
awards in the Atlanta Seminar, Southern Short Course and
a First Place in the Sports Feature category in POY.
2. Ami Vitale We regret to
announce that Ami Vitale will not be helping to judge
this contest. We wish her well in India while on assignment.
She has offered to help judge another contest later in
the year. Ami is based in India and her photographs
and stories from events in Europe, the Middle East, Africa,
India and Asia have appeared in publications including
Time, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times
Magazine, The Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Le Figaro Magazine
and USA Today among others. She has won numerous awards
for work including:
World Press Photos 2003, Third place General News Story
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2003:Magazine photographer
of the year
NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2003:Third place International
News Story
Photographer of the Year International: Third place Magazine
Division / General Reporting.
www.amivitale.com
3. Stephanie Grace Lim (San Jose Mercury News),
has won acclaim from the Society of News Design, National
Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, National
Headliners, & Nikon, as well as Michigan College Photographer
of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Her work
has been featured in the illustrious publications of Life,
People, Billboard, Photographer’s Forum, and Print
Magazine.
4. Matt McClain (Ventura County Star)
Graduate of Indiana University 1998
2003 NPPA Region 10 Still Photographer of the Year.
2002 NPPA Region 10 Still Photographer of the Year.
2001 NPPA Region 10 Still Photographer of the Year.
Taught
at Brooks Institute of Photography (at the new campus
for the photojournalism department in Ventura).
www.nppa10.org
5.
Mark Mirko (The Hartford Courant)
Presently completing a Knight Fellowship at Ohio University.
will be returning to the Hartford Courant in June, 2004.
2002 NPPA Region 1 Still Photographer of the Year.
Worked as a Staff Photographer at The Palm Beach Post
from 1992-2000.
In 1994 Mark was the Region 6 NPPA POY.
In 1992 a team entry of the Post's Photographic coverage
of Hurricane Andrew's devastation was a Pulitzer Prize
finalist.
www.nppa1.org
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