National Press Photographers Association

NPPA Judges Picking Best Of Photojournalism Picture Editing Winners

 

By Rebecca F. Miller

ATHENS, OH (March 31, 2011) – Judging of NPPA's 2011 Best of Photojournalism Picture Editing contest got underway on Wednesday evening at Ohio University in Athens at OU's School of Visual Communication (VisCom).

Judges Bert Fox, Sue Morrow, and Chris Wilkins will pore over the hundreds of entries during the next four days selecting the best of newspaper and magazine picture editing.

Teams of VisCom students watched and assisted the judges as they reviewed both digital versions of the publications as well as printed material.

So far the judges have picked winners in these categories:

The Picture Editing and Best Use Of Photography category judging is hosted by OU's School of Visual Communication and coordinated by VisCom's director, Terry Eiler, and OU journalism professor Stan Alost.

More winners will be announced as they are selected in the coming days.

This year's Best Of Photojournalism picture editing judges represent a wealth of experience.

Fox is a five-time winner of the Pictures of the Year Picture Editor of the Year award, and a former picture editor at National Geographic and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazines. Currently he's photography director for the Charlotte Observer. Last year the Observer was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Public Service Journalism for its stories and photographs chronicling America’s home foreclose crisis. He is also the director of photography for “Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change,” a ten-year documentary photography project that explores the complex issues behind child labor.

Morrow has served as a judge for Pictures of the Year International, Best Of Photojournalism, and the Society of News Design, and today is the director of The Kalish picture editing workshop. Morrow also has editing experience at the San Jose Mercury News, the St. Petersburg Times, the Sacramento Bee, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. She was the editor and designer of for “A Mother’s Journey” by Renée C. Byer, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography and POYi’s World Understanding Award. Currently, Morrow is the Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communication completing a master’s degree in multimedia.

Wilkins worked for ten years as a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse, and as the foreign/national picture editor at the Chicago Tribune. Currently. Wilkins serves as deputy director of photography for The Dallas Morning News and he was the photography editor on three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects, including The Dallas Morning News coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, and the Iraq war, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

The 2011 Best Of Photojournalism competition is sponsored this year by Canon as well as by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, ibiblio, Camera Bits, Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, and the St. Petersburg Times.

 

 

 

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