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2010
PIEA Contest Judges
| Natasha Naveau |
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 Born
and raised in the Canadian Shield, Natasha now lives and works
in Vancouver both as a freelance Photographer and at Focal Point
– The Visual Arts Learning Centre as the Senior Program
Coordinator. She obtained her BFA from NSCAD in Halifax, N.S.,
and a Professional Photography Diploma from Focal Point. A lover
of many art forms she also shoots advertisement and promotional
material for the Artsclub Theatre Company and local Vancouver
magazine ‘Devine Style’.
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W. Byron Reaves |
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 Byron
has been in the advertising business almost 20 years and has
developed many campaigns across numerous categories for
blue-chip clients. He is currently working with Cows In Trees as
an Associate
Creative Director.
Prior to joining
Cows In Trees, Byron worked for DDB, Chicago, where he founded
and managed the graphic design group and took the lead as the
“visual planner” for all brands. In that role, he created and
managed the look and feel of brandscapes for clients. He has
created award winning advertising for State Farm, McDonald's,
Anheuser-Busch, JCPenney, The Home Depot, Qwest, Dell and the
list goes on and on. Byron's work has been featured CA, Print,
How, Rough, Logo Lounge and Creativity. Additionally, Byron has
implemented the research and development of creative
technologies, working with hardware and software partners to
provide best-in-class creative work flow processes.
Outside of the advertising world, Byron is an avid painter who’s
work hangs in galleries in Illinois, California and Texas.
Reaves lives in Oak Park with his wife, and assorted wiener
dogs.
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| Jay Kinghorn |
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 Prolific
author, provocative speaker and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert
trainer, Jay Kinghorn uses his unique skill to help companies
and organizations strengthen their workflow processes and
envision creative uses for photography. His company, Kinghorn
Visual, works with clients to develop automated workflows for
print, Web and interactive marketing.
As an Olympus Visionary
photographer, Jay uses his unique eye to capture the
ever-changing landscape of the West and sports like mountain
biking and rock climbing. He also presents internationally to
various universities, trade associations and will be the primary
speaker for ASMP’s Preserving Digital Images Standards and
Workflow Project. A thought-provoking and informative speaker,
his presentations focus on digital photography workflows, color
management, image optimization and the changing role of
photography in this increasingly visual world.
The second
edition of his book, Perfect Digital Photography, which he
co-authored with Pulitzer-prize winner Jay Dickman, was released
in June 2009.
His clients include Olympus, Sony, Adobe,
Cabela’s, Vail Resorts, the Rocky Mountain Institute and Pearl
Izumi.
He is often found climbing the rock walls, biking the
trails or skiing near his home in Salt Lake City, UT.
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2009 PIEA Contest Judges
Cheryl Younger
 Cheryl
Younger was the founding director of the National Graduate
Seminar, located first at New York University and later Columbia
University. The archive is now housed in the Getty Museum
Research Library. Previously she designed and directed the Post
Secondary Education program for Film in the Cites in St. Paul
and served as chair of the National Society for Photographic
Education. She has taught all ages of photography students,
preschool to graduate level, most recently at the International
Center for Photography in New York City. Presently she is on a
three year adventure tour of the world.
David Leeson
 Pulitzer
Prize-winning photojournalist David Leeson has been on staff at
the Dallas Morning News since 1984. He has also worked for the
Abilene Reporter News and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times prior to
winning the award in 2004, along with colleague Cheryl Diaz
Meyer, for photographs made in March and April 2003 while on the
front lines with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division during the
invasion of Iraq. He has also won two Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Awards and numerous regional, state and national
awards.
In the fall of 2000, he began shooting video for the Dallas
Morning News, making him the first staff photographer in the
nation shooting video full-time for a newspaper. Since then he
has completed more than seven documentary films.
Two of his documentaries from the war also won honors. War
Stories (2003) won a National Headliners Award, a national
Edward R. Murrow Award and a regional Emmy for best television
documentary. Dust to Dust (2004) was named a finalist for Best
Short Film at the USA Film Festival. He won a second Emmy in
2007 as producer/editor of combat footage from Afghanistan.
In 2006, Leeson was named Innovator of the Year in
Photojournalism by American Photo magazine for his work using
frame grabs for newspaper daily still assignments. The results
of his efforts have culminated in the growing trend by
newspapers to use existing photo staff, transitioned to
high-definition video cameras, to obtain both video and stills
(frame grabs) from a single assignment.
Leeson is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, is married
and has five children.
Vicki Goldberg
 Writer
and critic Vicki Goldberg has been an instrumental influence in
photography for decades. her articles on photography have
appeared regularly in the New York Times, Vanity Fair,
Smithsonian, American Photo, Aperture, Paris Photo and Foto and
Video (Russia).
She has authored or co-authored several important books on
photography including The Power of Photography: How
Photographs Changed our Lives, 1991, Margaret
Bourke-White: A Biography, 1986 and Light Matters (a
selection of essays), Aperture 2005.
She has curated several important photographic exhibitions
including: Points of Entry: American Immigration, Museum
of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 1995 and Bourke-White: A
Retrospective, International Center of Photography, 1988-90,
two year tour of U. S. and Japan.
Her awards include:
Long Chen Cup Award
(“for excellent achievement in promoting photography in the
world),
China, 2006
Dudley Johnston Award, The Royal Photographic Society, 1999
International Center of Photography, Infinity Award for Writing,
1997
Photographic Administrators, Inc., Award for Writing, 1997
Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism,
School of Journalism, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1995
(previously given only to photographers)
2008
PIEA Contest Judges
Barbara Bridgers-Johnson
Barbara Bridgers-Johnson, the General Manager for Imaging and
Photography at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been in
charge of the Museum’s in-house photography program since 1986.
She manages a staff of 12 full-time photographers, 6 assistant
photographers, and a ten-person administrative, printing and
production group. The department began shooting digitally in
1986, and completed the transition to a fully digital workflow
in the summer of 1996. Today, the Photograph Studio focuses on
direct digital capture, high resolution scanning and
post-production, and custom ink-jet prints and facsimiles.
Images created in the studio appear in the pages of the
beautiful and award-winning exhibition catalogues produced by
the Museum, on the Met’s website, and are represented in myriad
merchandising products found throughout the Museum’s stores and
satellite shops around the world.
Roy
Flukinger
Roy
Flukinger is the present Research Curator of Photography and former
Senior Curator of Photography and Film of the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
He has published and lectured extensively in the fields of
regional, cultural and contemporary photography and the history
of art and photography, and has produced or participated in
nearly eighty.
He has edited catalogues and organized exhibitions including
Go Out and Look: The Photography of Russell Lee, A Lewis
Carroll Centenary and Visiones de Tejanos/Visions of
Texans. Among his later publications are: “To Help the
World to See: The Photographic Career of Eliot Elisofon;
David Douglas Duncan: One Life, A Photographic Odyssey;
Windows of Light; and Photography: The First 150
Years.
His service on professional boards has included, among others,
the Texas Photographic Society, the Texas Humanities Resource
Center, the Houston Fotofest, photolucida, the Getty Art &
Architecture Thesaurus, the Houston Center of Photography, and
the Steering Committee for the Texas Historical Foundation's
Historical Photographs Project.
Rich
Clarkson
Named by American Photo magazine as one of the 50 most
influential individuals in American photography, Clarkson’s
career includes stints as director of photography and senior
assistant editor of the National Geographic Society, assistant
managing editor of The Denver Post, director of photography of
The Topeka (Ks.) Capital-Journal and as contract/contributing
photographer for 20 years to Sports Illustrated.
A
past-president of the National Press Photographers Association,
he is currently chair of the NPPA Council of Presidents, a
trustee of the William Allen White Foundation of the University
of Kansas School of Journalism, a trustee of the W. Eugene Smith
Memorial Foundation, a member of the adjunct faculty of the
University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass
Communication and a member of the advisory council of the
National Museum of Wildlife Art.
He has been
a Pulitzer Prize juror, a lecturer in a variety of venues from
the International Center of Photography in New York City to the
Sasakawa Foundation in Tokyo. He organized the 50th anniversary
celebration of the NPPA including a rededication of the Iwo Jima
Memorial in Washington and a week-long series of events.
He has
co-authored six books and his Denver company has packaged 15
books including Brian Lanker’s “I Dream A World,” portraits of
America’s great black women which became the best-selling trade
coffeetable book in American publishing history.
He organized
the photographic coverage of the Munich and Montreal Olympics
for Time magazine, the Moscow Olympics for Sports Illustrated
and was the overall coordination and director of photography in
the main Olympic stadium for the Atlanta games.
PIEA Contest Judges 2007
Jay Dickman is a National Geographic and
Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer from Colorado. He has
participated in 15 of the Day in the Life of book
projects and several NPPA “Flying Short Courses” and has
received the Golden Eye Award from the World Press organization.
He shot over 25 assignments for National Geographic
magazine. A photojournalist for over 30 years, Jay covered the
war in El Salvador, the Olympics, political conventions and six
Super Bowls and many other stories. Dickman hosts his own
photography workshops in Scotland, France and the Chesapeake Bay
area of Maryland. He is a regular faculty member at The Maine
Photographic Workshops, Photography at the Summit and
participates in the American Photo Mentor Series
Workshops.
Julie Simpson has been the managing editor of
Photographer’s Forum magazine in Santa Barbara, CA for
the past eight years. She organizes and oversees the magazine’s
student photo contests and works on the Best of Photography
Annual and the Best of College Photography Annual and
on Serbin Communications’ Directory of Illustration,
At-Edge (source book for commercial photographers),
Medical Illustration Source Book and Designer Jewelry
Showcase. Serbin Communications has been a prize sponsor of
the PIEA Contests for many years.
Howard Wallach retired from chair of
the photo department at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn,
NY several years ago and now works as a freelance writer and
technical consultant to several photographic manufacturing
firms. Howard divides his time between his home in Brooklyn and
a condo in Aspen, Colorado. While he was at Abraham Lincoln
High, Howard was an active PIEA member and a speaker at the PIEA
Photo Education Conference. His students frequently won many
awards in national and international photo contests including
many top awards in the PIEA Contests.
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