PIEA - Photo Imaging Education Association

2008 PIEA Contest Jury:

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 International Student-Teacher Photo Exhibition and Competition