2009 PIEA Contest Jury:
Cheryl Younger
Cheryl
Younger was the founding director of the National Graduate
Seminar, located first at New York University and later Columbia
University. The archive is now housed in the Getty Museum
Research Library. Previously she designed and directed the Post
Secondary Education program for Film in the Cites in St. Paul
and served as chair of the National Society for Photographic
Education. She has taught all ages of photography students,
preschool to graduate level, most recently at the International
Center for Photography in New York City. Presently she is on a
three year adventure tour of the world.
David Leeson
Pulitzer
Prize-winning photojournalist David Leeson has been on staff at
the Dallas Morning News since 1984. He has also worked for the
Abilene Reporter News and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times prior to
winning the award in 2004, along with colleague Cheryl Diaz
Meyer, for photographs made in March and April 2003 while on the
front lines with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division during the
invasion of Iraq. He has also won two Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Awards and numerous regional, state and national
awards.
In the fall of 2000, he began shooting video for the Dallas
Morning News, making him the first staff photographer in the
nation shooting video full-time for a newspaper. Since then he
has completed more than seven documentary films.
Two of his documentaries from the war also won honors. War
Stories (2003) won a National Headliners Award, a national
Edward R. Murrow Award and a regional Emmy for best television
documentary. Dust to Dust (2004) was named a finalist for Best
Short Film at the USA Film Festival. He won a second Emmy in
2007 as producer/editor of combat footage from Afghanistan.
In 2006, Leeson was named Innovator of the Year in
Photojournalism by American Photo magazine for his work using
frame grabs for newspaper daily still assignments. The results
of his efforts have culminated in the growing trend by
newspapers to use existing photo staff, transitioned to
high-definition video cameras, to obtain both video and stills
(frame grabs) from a single assignment.
Leeson is a graduate of Abilene Christian University, is married
and has five children.
Vicki Goldberg
Writer
and critic Vicki Goldberg has been an instrumental influence in
photography for decades. her articles on photography have
appeared regularly in the New York Times, Vanity Fair,
Smithsonian, American Photo, Aperture, Paris Photo and Foto and
Video (Russia).
She has authored or co-authored several important books on
photography including The Power of Photography: How
Photographs Changed our Lives, 1991, Margaret
Bourke-White: A Biography, 1986 and Light Matters (a
selection of essays), Aperture 2005.
She has curated several important photographic exhibitions
including: Points of Entry: American Immigration, Museum
of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 1995 and Bourke-White: A
Retrospective, International Center of Photography, 1988-90,
two year tour of U. S. and Japan.
Her awards include:
Long Chen Cup Award
(“for excellent achievement in promoting photography in the
world),
China, 2006
Dudley Johnston Award, The Royal Photographic Society, 1999
International Center of Photography, Infinity Award for Writing,
1997
Photographic Administrators, Inc., Award for Writing, 1997
Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism,
School of Journalism, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1995
(previously given only to photographers)
