National Press Photographers Association

John Durniak Mentor Award

John Durniak

Awarded to an individual who has served as an outstanding mentor, either to a specific individual or to photojournalism in general. Nomiantions for this award are to come from working photojournalists. The recipient of the award may have, but not need to have, any formal connection to photojournalsim.

Over the years, John Durniak was executive editor of Popular Photography magazine, picture editor at Time magazine and The New York Times, and managing editor of Look, himself an enthusiastic mentor who nurtured some of the most prominent photojournalists of the 20th Century. Durniak died in 1997.

2011
Cortney Kintzer
2010
Colin Mulvany
Brian Immel
2009
Mark Dolan
2008
Jim McKnight
2007
J. Bruce Baumann
2006
Eddie Adams
2005
John Freeman
2004
Shelly Katz
2003
Bob Lynn
2002
Charles J. McCarthy
2001
Rich Clarkson
2000
Carlo Mastricolo
1999
John White
1998
Arnold Drapkin

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