Photojournalism

PSA Journal, Jan, 2005 by Keith Vaughan

Recognition of Annual Exhibiting Achievements

A policy has been adopted by the Photojournalism Division (PJD) to send "Certificates of Photographic Achievement" to PSA members who are the top Photojournalism exhibitors in PSA-recognized exhibitions annually. "Top" is defined as those individuals whose names are included in the "Top North American" or "Top Overseas" boxes in the annual Who's Who listing in the May PSA Journal.

Exhibiting in PSA-recognized photojournalism exhibitions is a very important aspect of the PJD's overall operations, and the new certificates will recognize the individual exhibitor's photographic achievement during a calendar year.

Sixteenth Biennial PJ Traveling Exhibition

The 16th Biennial PJ Traveling Exhibition was held in Milwaukee, WI, under the directorship of Tony Oberbrunner. This year's exhibition had the special theme People At Work. There were 136 slide entries, 44 print entries, and 12 digital entries (Digital entries did not qualify for points towards Who's Who in PJ or PJ Star Ratings). The number of acceptances was 31 slides, 15 prints, and 12 digital images: the accepted images were shown at the PSA conference in Minneapolis. Photographers from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, and the USA participated. The judges were three Wisconsin-based professional photographers: Jerome Harders, West Allis; E. Gene Newlin, New Berlin; and Cindy Pekrul, Greenfield. The award winners are:

Slides: 1st place--Fensterputz by Karl Markloff, Germany; 2nd place--Handling the Nets by Jane Kriete, FPSA, EPSA. Judges' Choice Awards to Jean-Claude Bacle, EPSA, France; Russel Kriete, Hon. PSA, FPSA, EPSA; and Jocelyn Laporte, PPSA, France.

Prints: 1st place--Helped From Death Scene by Robert Ward Bullock; 2nd place--Helo Fire #1 by Keith Vaughan, FPSA, Canada. Judges' Choice Medals to Walter Kump, PPSA, Austria (2) and Manfred Wiesinger, Austria.

Digital: 1st place--Incense Sticks by Jocelyn Laporte, France; 2nd place Enrte by Thomas Frohlich, Austria; Honorable Mention (HM) for Woman Carrying a Load of Rice by Tony Oberbrunner.

Honorable mentions went to

Slide: Martin Bruce, FPSA, EPSA; Lyle Campbell: Lois E. Clarke, FPSA, EPSA; Dennis Corbin, USA; Ian Davis-Young, Canada; Dale Gilkinson, FPSA; Raymond Le Berre, France; Karl Markloff, Germany; Carol J. Meisenheimer, APSA, EPSA; David C. Meisenheimer, APSA, EPSA; Thomas Moorhead, APSA; Ray Parry, PPSA; Cad Soerens, APSA; Joanne Stolte, PPSA; Adrian Szasz, Canada; and Keith Vaughan.

Print: Martin Bruce; Del Desens, APSA; and Max Molan, Austria.

Congratulations to the winners! The next Traveling Biennial will be held in 2006, but at the time of writing this column, the theme had not been designated.

Keith Vaughan, FPSA, EPSA, Editor

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