Special Event - WHNPA SEMINAR - FriDAY JAN 18, 6:30 PM
WHERE: National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M St. NW, Washington DC
PRESENTERS: Travis Dove, College Photographer of the Year; Dudley Brooks, Director of Photography, Ebony magazine; Gail Fisher, Senior Picture Editor, National Geographic magazine; Chris Hondros, Staff Photographer, Getty Images
Judging for the Eyes of History 2008 STILL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - Saturday and Sunday, January 19th and 20th, at National Geographic auditorium.
STILL CONTEST JUDGES 2008
DUDLEY M. BROOKS
Dudley M. Brooks is the Photo Director for Ebony/Jet magazines (published by Johnson Publishing Company with a circulation of 1.2 million and 900,000 respectively) where he oversees all photo operations. After graduating from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland with a degree in Fine Arts, Brooks taught photography at Bowie State University while working as a Production Assistant for the WBAL-TV news department. In 1981 he relocated to Rockford, Illinois as a general assignment photographer for the Rockford Register Star newspaper.
In 1983, Brooks joined the staff of The Washington Post. Ten years later, he co-directed and photographed for the book and exhibition Songs of My People - African Americans: A Self-Portrait. This was an aggressive and national photo documentation of the Black community using newly commissioned work from 53 African American photographers. The exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. was attended by 91,000 viewers with five additional versions of the show traveling around the world simultaneously.
Brooks is the recipient of awards from several organizations including the White House News Photographers Association, the National Press Photographers Association and World Press Photo in The Netherlands. He is also the winner of the 2000 Visa d’or for Daily Press, awarded in Perpignan, France, and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Photojournalism. He has covered major stories worldwide including the student uprising in Beijing, the first Papal visit to Cuba, catastrophic mudslides in Nicaragua and the mass murder/suicide of a religious cult in Uganda. His most memorable assignments were documenting the nation of Trinidad and Tobago for National Geographic magazine and the first free and fair elections in the Republic of South Africa for The Washington Post.
July 2003 marked the first year for the Imagenes Havana International Photography Festival in Havana, Cuba. Brooks was the co-organizer and director of the five-day event, which exhibited the work of twenty-five storytelling photographers - supplemented by three days of roundtable discussions on photojournalism. Before coming to Ebony/Jet, he was the Assistant Managing Editor for Photography at the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
 GAIL FISHER
Gail Fisher, senior editor, photography, for National Geographic, recently made the move from the world of newspapers to magazines. Formerly senior photo editor of projects for the Los Angeles Times, she covered social issues during the course of her career throughout the world. She has traveled extensively throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South and Central America.
Her editing skills and photography have been recognized internationally with numerous awards, judging, teaching and speaking engagements. In 2006, she was awarded Best of Photojournalism Picture Editor of the Year, in 2005, runner-up. In 2006 Altered Oceans series was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism, which Gail was the photo editor. And, in 2005, the investigative King Drew project was honored the Pulitzer Public Service award in which she was also part of the team. The Los Angeles Times was awarded the Angus McDougall Excellence in Picture Editing from Pictures of the Year International three times in the last five years along with several other international and national awards. Fisher played a role in editing many of these projects.
At the Los Angeles Times, she was a strong advocate of editing photography for multimedia projects, integrating audio, video and working closely with web editors to co-produce extensive online pieces.
In 2000, as a photojournalist, Fisher began documenting the causes and effects of foster kids after they turn 18 and emancipate out of the system. With the advances of digital technology, Fisher shot both still photography and video on “Unadoptable” which was broadcast on ABC Nightline Up Close as a two-part series. By integrating these two media, the story was published on a much broader scale; stand alone pieces for print publication, web streaming and television broadcast.
Some of her accomplishments as a photojournalist include the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the disadvantaged, the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Harry Chapin World Hunger Award and twice won the Community Awareness Award in 1996 and 2002 from the National Press Photographers Pictures of the Year. She has also received recognition for several online projects with her involvement as an editor and photojournalist.
A native of Akron, Ohio, Gail earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Miami University of Ohio, and an M.F.A. in Photojournalism from Ohio University. She has two children, Whitney, and Zack.
CHRIS HONDROS
 Chris Hondros, 37, is a staff photographer for Getty Images News. After studying English Literature at North Carolina State in 1993 and conducting his graduate work in photojournalism at Ohio University, Hondros moved to New York to concentrate on international reporting. Since then he has covered assignments in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia. He was awarded a USAID Photojournalism Grant in 1999 and was a fellow at the Pew Fellowship for International Reporting at Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Hondros's images have received dozens of awards, including honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the National Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L'Image in France, and both the John Faber award and Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club in New York. In 2004 Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia. He lives in New York City.
Special judges
Frank Johnston
2008 CONTEST WINNERS
Judging Venue: National Geographic Grosvenor Auditorium,
1600 M Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
Judging Schedule
All times and categories are subject to change
Sat., Jan. 19
9:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Pictorial
Sports Action
Sports Feature/Reaction
International News
Feature
2:00 PM - 7:30 PM:
Presidential
On Capitol Hill
Portrait
Domestic News
Insiders Washington
News Picture Story
Sun., Jan. 20
9:00 AM-1:00 PM
Political Picture Story
Feature Picture Story
Political Portfolio
Sports Picture Story
2:00-4:00 PM
Portfolio
Political Photo of the Year
Projection of Winning Pictures
Photographer of the Year
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