2022 Eyes of History: Digital Storytelling Results

Committee note: Due to a last minute assignment, the previously announced Jika González was replaced by Juanita Ceballos.

Juanita Ceballos is a documentary producer and cinematographer based in New York. She currently works for VICE News. She has reported throughout Latin America, with bylines in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. She has covered stories including the epidemic of forced disappearances in Mexico, Venezuela’s migration crisis, Brazil’s 2018 presidential election, and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Before moving to the United States, she worked as a videographer in the Mexico City bureau at Telemundo, where she reported extensively on the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College. Her work has appeared on VICE News, HBO, Showtime, Telemundo, Al Jazeera, Univision, NBC News, TIME, Narratively and, The New York Times. She’s a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she sometimes works as an adjunct professor.

Brian Kaufman is the Executive Video Producer at the Detroit Free Press, where he bridges the gap between video journalism and documentary film. Kaufman’s work spans a broad range, from news-driven shorts to feature films on social and environmental issues. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded Kaufman three Emmy awards and nominated him in the craft category of Nature and Wildlife Cinematography. Most recently, Kaufman directed and edited The Wall, a feature film about President Trump’s proposed border wall that was part of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Detroit rebellion, Kaufman directed and edited 12th and Clairmount, an entirely archival feature film that Variety described as, “a revelatory portrait of the city … illuminating and innovatively crafted.”

Kaufman’s career began with a Visual Journalism degree at Brooks Institute of Photography in California and a job at the Naples Daily News in Florida, where he helped launch the first newspaper-based television newscast in the country. Since joining the Detroit Free Press, Kaufman has been instrumental in facilitating the education of video journalism to other newspaper photographers and reporters, including a USA Today Network initiative that dramatically increased video traffic in newsrooms nationwide. He teaches video storytelling annually at Maine Media Workshops.

In his spare time, Kaufman pursues adventure, solitude and fine art photography in wilderness.

Sue Morrow is the Editor and Creative Director for NPPA’s News Photographer magazine and the Director of The Kalish Workshop. She has worked as a photo editor and manager at some of the best newspapers in the country: San Jose Mercury News, Tampa Bay Times, The Sacramento Bee, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Boston Globe. During her tenure as Assistant Managing Editor for photography at the Times, the photo staff was recognized with numerous awards for photography and editing in Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, and Society of News Design, winning Picture Editing Team Portfolio in POYi.

She was the visiting professional for E.W. Scripps School of Communications at Ohio University in 2017-18 and has lectured at The Poynter Institute, Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and many NPPA-related seminars and contests. Since 1994, she has been faculty and board member with The Kalish pictures editing workshop and served as its director 2011-13 and 2022. She has been a judge for POYi, BOP, SND, the White House News Photographers Association, and the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.