IPPA Convention speaker: Lori Grinker, Freelance
LORI GRINKER
Freelance
New York, NY
Lori Grinker began her photographic career in 1981 while a student at Parsons School of Design when her photo-essay about a young boxer was published as a cover story by Inside Sports. During that time she met another young boxer, 13 year-old Mike Tyson, whose life she documented for the following decade. Since then in addition to her reportage of events such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, she has delved into long-term book projects including The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (Jewish Publication Society, 1989, 7 editions), and Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (de.MO, March 2005), her fifteen-year project on veterans of the last century.
Published in major magazines, her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, the Ernst Hass Grant, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others. Her photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world and are in many private and museum collections including: ICP (The International Center of Photography), The Jewish Museum in New York City, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Of her most recent exhibition, The New Yorker wrote: Although Grinker’s photographs and a brief video about Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan, are clearly shards of a much larger project, the impact of their installation here is hardly diminished. Several of her subjects worked with American forces in Iraq and were targeted as collaborators; others fled violence that intruded into their homes. All of them live in limbo (“No schools, no work, no money,” one woman says) in shabby apartments that Grinker documents as carefully as she records their faces and their terrible wounds. The material is painful but never sensationalized or sentimentalized; Grinker gives a face, a name, and a nagging immediacy to the disfigured and dispossessed.
Between editorial assignments and personal projects, Grinker lectures, teaches workshops, and is on the faculty of the ICP in New York City, She is represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York and has been a member of Contact Press Images since 1988.
Related websites:
http://www.lorigrinker.com
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IPPA Monthly Clip Contest Winners December 2007
IPPA Monthly Clip Contest Winners December:
Date Clips Received: Jan 26, 2008
Date Judged: Jan. 30, 2008
Judges: New Haven Register, New Haven Conn.Mara Lavitt, Arnold Gold, Brad Horrigan, Peter Hvizdak, all staff photographers
News
1st
Photographer: David Zalaznik
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/27/08
Description: Praying at Fire
Judges Comments: Very nicely composed, stood out as number one, tells the story well after the fact.
2nd
Photographer: Matt Dayhoff
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/20/07
Description: Hogs Corralled
Judges Comments: Well composed, we like the lone figure on the upper right, news with a wry twist.
3rd
Photographer: Carlos T. Miranda
Publication: The Pantagraph
Date Published: 12/7/07
Description: Dog leaves fire
Judges Comments: Sometimes it’s a matter of getting to the news in time. Nice moment and clean.
News Catagory Comments:
A lot of photographs that just weren’t strong enough. The winners stood right out.
Feature
1st
Photographer: Ron Johnson
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/16/07
Description: Snowflake
Judges Comments: We all went for it – nice moment, graphically strong – we’ve all been there and would love to come back with this photo.
2nd
Photographer: Fred Zwick
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/16/07
Description: Blood Santa
Judges Comments: Excellent emotion captured. Reader wants to take time with this photo.
3rd
Photographer: Kate Szrom
Publication: Naperville Sun
Date Published: 12/21/07
Description: 4th Anniversary
Judges Comments: Well worked, well seen, excellent emotion.
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David Zentz
Peoria Journal Star
12/6/07
Afternoon Light
Great use of light which conveys the moment perfectly. And of course, clean composition.
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David Zentz
Peoria Journal Star
12/19/07
Patrolling the Aisles
Fun moment, nice composition, great interaction between the subjects.
Feature Catagory Comments:
Nice range of photos, provided the most discussion of which would be the winners.
Feature Multiple
1st
Photographer: Ron Johnson
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/23/07
Description: Santa Paws
Judges Comments: The best photographs in the category. Less is more – far stronger with fewer images. The pictures we would have edited out were used the largest (the problem with not editing down). There were some wonderful moments, well seen.
2nd
Photographer: Fred Zwicky
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/23/07
Description: Hope for Tim
Judges Comments: Very nice collection of well-seen moments. Overall gives an optimistic feel. Tells this guy’s story in photos well.
3rd
Photographer: Todd Mizener
Publication: The Dispatch
Date Published: 12/23/07
Description: Books
Judges Comments: Good execution of creative idea. Unfortunately, we couldn’t see the books themselves in several photos reflecting more about having too many pictures used (too small). Obviously, expressions were wonderful but we would have edited out 1/3 of the photos.
Feature Multiple Catagory Comments:
Strong category. Lots of different styles and subjects from serious to funny.
Sports
1st
Photographer: Ron Johnson
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/2/07
Description: Hot Dog/Football Team
Judges Comments: Fun moment, clean composition, very well seen. Nice juxtaposition between boyhood and high school.
2nd
Photographer: Steve Warmowski
Publication: Jacksonville Journal-Courier
Date Published: 12/1/07
Description: Missed Free Throw/Bench
Judges Comments: Different take on an emotional bench reaction photograph. Ball in image separates it from similar pictures.
3rd
Photographer: Katy Mull
Publication: Ottawa Times
Date Published: 12/31/07
Description: Championship Loss
Judges Comments: Quality juxtaposition of winning/losing. Angle is different. Gives equal weight to winners and losers. Why was it run wallet sized?
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Photographer: Ron Johnson
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 12/24/07
Description: Bears Celebrate
Judges Comments: classic jubilation, clean, sharp, right to the point, peak moment.
Sports Catagory Comments:
There were some good action photos, but our winners took the storytelling to the next level. We think there should be two categories in the future: Sports Action and Sports Feature.
Illustration
1st
Photographer: Danielle Gardner
Publication: Naperville Sun
Date Published: 12/13/07
Description: Ben Franklin
judges comments-
Creative and graphically simple and strong. Clearly stood out as well as illustrating the story.
2nd
Photographer: Beck Diefenbach
Publication: Naperville Sun
Date Published: 10/31/07
Description: Flying Candy
judges comments-
We found it comical and ever-so-slightly disgusting. A caption would have helped.
3rd NONE
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Illustration Comments:
A tough category to judge. Few standouts.
Portrait/Personality
1st
Photographer: Eric Sumberg
Publication: Daily Chronicle
Date Published: 11/16/07
Description: Swimmers
Judges comments-
Stand-out photo. Nothing wrong with this photo at all.
2nd
Photographer: Rebekah Raleigh
Publication: Northwest Herald
Date Published: 11/29/07
Description: Mom and Baby
Judges comments-
Super clean, powerful moment beautifully realized by the photographer. Another stellar photo as the first.
3rd
Photographer: Ron Johnson
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 11/7/07
Description: Veteran
Judges comments-
The colors, the angles, the lighting, the subject’s expression. It’s all there.
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Photographer: David Zentz
Publication: Peoria Journal Star
Date Published: 11/7/07
Description: Tennis Player
Judges comments-
Lovely light, clean, great composition, simple, strong.
Portrait/personalit y Comments:
This and Feature single were the most fun to judge. Lots to choose from and discuss. In all the winning photos the photographer used light beautifully, the subject of the photo easily understood.
iBOP rules
Rules for the 2007 iBOP contest, sponsored by Nikon.PLUS! Multimedia contest entry form included. Deadline is shipped by 27 February. 2007 iBOP rules
IPPA convention speakers announced
The speakers and iBOP judges for the IPPA conference in Champaign, IL March 28-29, 2008 will be:
- Rod Mar, Seattle Times
- Jessica Dimmock, Freelance
- Lori Grinker, Freelance
- David Stephenson, Lexington Herald-Leader
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Attn. Illinois photographers - it’s lobby time
Rob Dicker on SportShooter.com:
By now it shouldn’t be news to you that the publishers of Illinois are at odds with the Illinois State High School Association. Beginning this past November the IHSA has been doing everything they can to make it impossible for newspapers to cover high school state finals. At the football state finals the IHSA pulled the credentials of photographers from five newspapers. Last week the IHSA instituted a new credentialing policy that requires that any photographer (and rumor has it any reporter) showing up at state finals, sign a form stating that the publication that they represent, would abide by all the IHSA’s rules, regardless of what their employer’s policies state.
This all seems to stem from the IHSA’s “secondary use” policy and the Illinois Press Association’s opposition to it. The IPA sued. The IHSA countersued. The IPA then lobbied for legislation in the Illinois House and Senate and the House Bill 4582 was introduced. The Bill was sponsored in the House by Rep. Joseph M. Lyons, and in the Senate by Sen. James A. DeLeo both of Chicago. This legislation reaffirms that high school sporting events are public events and that the media has the right to cover them as news events. The IHSA is pressuring their members to lobby their local legislators to block the bill. And that’s kind of what I am doing too.
Below, you will find a letter that you can personalize and send to you State Senator and State Representative asking them to support the bill.
If you need to get the name and address of them, click on this link and fill in your address.
http://www.elections.il.gov/DistrictLocator/AddressSearch.aspx