New Contest
Announcement
Jackson, Michigan -- The Photo Imaging Education Association
section of Photo Marketing Association International announces:
The
2009 PIEA
International Student-Teacher Photo Competition and Exhibition
2009
PIEA International Student-Teacher Photo Competition and
Exhibition
Rules
& Procedures
The 2008 PIEA
International Student-Teacher Photo Competition and Exhibition
is proud to have 82 sponsors, and over
$161,200.00 in prizes !
2009 Judges now being
selected
About the 2008 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.
The 2008
contest offered over US$161,000 in prizes donated by over 82
generous
sponsors.
The competition is open to students everywhere-at all ages-and
to their teachers.
Students
compete by age group: 9th Grade & Below, 10-11-12th Grades (High
School) and College & University levels. Students in 9th Grade &
Below compete in single images only and the other student levels
and teachers compete in both single images and portfolios.
Prizes will be awarded in each category at the Grand, First,
Second and Third Prize levels and to the schools of the Grand
Prize winners.
The top 100-120
photographs were
exhibited at the PMA Imaging 2008 Convention in Las Vegas,
NV USA February, 2008. Two 2008 PIEA International Traveling
Photo Exhibitions will tour major conventions, schools, colleges
and museums for two years in the USA, Australia and Canada. The
top prize-winning images will be published in Photo Marketing
Magazine. Winners are also posted on the World Wide Web on the
PIEA Home Page Gallery.
Rules and entry forms are available from the contest rules page
or from PMA at (Phone) 517.788.8100 and (Fax) 517.788.8371.
PIEA is a special membership section of PMA, the world's largest
photo industry organization. PIEA members are working dedicated
professionals teaching photography and digital imaging at all
levels. PIEA is an international organization to create
resources for, to inform, to support, and to connect photo
educators from elementary schools up through the university and
workshop levels. Membership is just US$35 per year for members
in the USA including personal membership in PMA. Membership
information and an application form is available directly from
PIEA membership page on the World
Wide Web.
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