2004
(#3) WPJA WEDDING PHOTO CONTEST JUDGES:
1.
Carol Guzy - Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
with The Washington Post. Guzy originally studied to be
a nurse, but changed course after taking a photojournalism
class. She received her most recent Pulitzer in 2000 for
photographs of Kosovo refugees, a second in 1995 for her
portrayal of the U.S. intervention in Haiti, and her first
in 1986 awarding her work during a mudslide in Colombia
for The Miami Herald. Guzy graduated from the Art Institute
of Fort Lauderdale in 1980, and acquired her first job
with the Miami Herald after a successful internship. She
spent eight years at the Herald, then joined The Washington
Post in 1988. In 1990, Guzy was the first woman to receive
the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Award, presented
by the National Press Photographers Association.
2.
Karen Ballard - Freelance Photographer / Washington
DC. Ballard was recently chosen pool photographer to document
Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Special Tribunal in Baghdad.
She states: "Finally the curtains opened and the
show began. The Tribunal authorities decided to allow
me outside for Saddam's arrival. It was the ultimate perp
walk. The once-feared Saddam Hussein being marched toward
me in shackles, held on both sides by large Iraqi police
guards. As Saddam got closer I moved quickly to my spot
inside the foyer. He entered, stopped, and, for a chilling
moment, stared right at me." COMPLETE
STORY HERE.
3.
David Leeson - Staff photographer for The Dallas Morning
News since 1984 and 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner for his
photographs depicting the violence and poignancy of the
war with Iraq. In 1985, Leeson was also a Pulitzer finalist
for his photo coverage of apartheid in South Africa. In
1986, he lived on the streets of Dallas with the homeless
for two months. The photos, published in a 24-page special
section by The Dallas Morning News, won a Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Problems
of the Disadvantaged. In 1991, Leeson arrived in Kuwait
City with the 1st Marine Division and was among the first
journalists to photograph in the city following Iraq’s
withdrawal during the Gulf War. The following year he
returned to the gulf and gave readers an exclusive look
inside war-torn Baghdad. In 1994, he covered civil war
in Angola, earning a second Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award. In the same year, a Leeson photograph of a family
evacuating floodwaters in southeast Texas was named a
finalist for the Pulitzer. For more than 14-months, 1996
thru 1997, he worked on an essay about death row in the
United States. Following that assignment, Leeson completed
stories in China, Bosnia, the 1999 earthquake in Turkey
and civil war in Sudan.
4.
Annie Wells - Staff photographer and photo editor
at the Los Angeles Times. Wells worked previously as photographer
for The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California for nine
years. She won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot news with
her photograph of a fireman rescuing a young girl from
a flooded creek. Wells photos are part of the permanent
collection in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
5. Melanie Burford - Dallas Morning News Staff Photographer.
Burford was most recently based in Washington, D.C. where
she spent 2 years as a freelance photojournalist. She
also worked at Copley Newspapers / Sun Publications in
Chicago. Before arriving in the U.S., Burford was staff
photographer for 10 years in her native country of New
Zealand, where she also taught photography and was a founding
member of the New Zealand international photo conference.
She is the 2002 NPPA Cliff Edom New America First Place
award winner.
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