Illinois Best of Photojournalism 2008 winners
That’s all folks!
-> Illinois Best of Multimedia results are available here <-
-> Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism results are available here <-
Photographer of the Year
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune
2nd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune
3rd - Heather Eidson, The Beacon News
Sports Photographer of the Year
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune
2nd - Chris Sweda, Chicago Sun-Times
3rd - John Starks, Daily Herald
News
1st - Todd Mizener, Moline Dispatch, “Bloody Kiss”
2nd - Paul Colletti, Moline Dispatch, “Crime Scene Conversation”
3rd - John Badman, The Telegraph, “House Fire Kills Pet”
HM - Stephen Haas, Decatur Herald & Review, “Winter Weather”
HM - Mary Beth Nolan, Daily Herald, “Dust Devil”
General News
1st - John Badman, The Telegraph, “House Flooding Chores”
2nd - Paul Colletti, Moline Dispatch, “He’s My Last Parent”
3rd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Kind Words”
HM - Tamra Bell, Pioneer Press, “Doggy Style”
HM - Brian Hill, Daily Herald, Dust “Footsie”
HM - Robert Leistra, Jacksonville Journal-Courier, “Crosses His Fingers”
HM - Valerie Tobias, Northwest Herald, “Little Warrior”
Road To Office
1st - Charles Rex Arbogast, Associated Press, “Obama On The Record”
2nd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Obama’s Victory”
3rd - Paul Colletti, Moline Dispatch, “Outlining Her Position”
Enterprise
1st - Jonathan Miano, Sun Publications, “Family Act at the Circus”
2nd - Adam Gerik, The Journal Star, “Fall Kiss”
3rd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Molly Gets Hosed”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications, “Holistic Happiness”
HM - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press, “Dance”
HM - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press, “Guitar Hero”
HM - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberian Wedding”
Sports Action
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Legs”
2nd - Heather Eidson, The Beacon News, “Power Fights Five”
3rd - Chris Sweda, Chicago Sun-Times, “Ball Catcher”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Diebler’s Dive”
Sports Feature
1st - Jonathan Miano, Sun Publications, “Muddy Celebration”
2nd - John Starks, Daily Herald, “Squirrely Move”
3rd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Flower Power”
HM - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press, “Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive and Dodge”
HM - Suzanne Tennant, Pioneer Press, “Roller Stretch”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Golden Boys”
Portrait/Personality
1st - Josh Hawkins, Freelance, “Chemotherapy Elevator”
2nd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Twin Combatants”
3rd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Amputee Soccer Players”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications, “Angelic Vision”
HM - Josh Hawkins, Freelance, “Double Mastectomy”
HM - Suzanne Tennant, Pioneer Press, “Cat Nap”
HM - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Young Survivor”
HM - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “War Orphans”
Pictorial
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Water Cubed”
2nd - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press, “Pool Water”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune, “A Winter’s Morn”
HM - Tamra Bell, Pioneer Press, “Reflections from the 95th Floor”
Illustration
1st - Kate Szrom, Naperville Sun, “Veghead”
2nd - Valerie Tobias, Northwest Herald, “Earth Hour”
3rd - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications, “Holiday Pounds”
Nature/Environment
1st - Ruthie Hauge, Pioneer Press, “A Friend in Need”
2nd - Jody Warner, Columbia College Chicago, “Seeing Eye To Eye”
3rd - Stephen Haas, Decatur Herald & Review, “Nuthatch”
HM - Steve Lundy, Daily Herald, “Steam”
News Picture Story
1st - Jon Lowenstein, Freelance, “In Cold Blood: Ultra-Violence in Guatemala City”
2nd - Jon Lowenstein, Freelance, “A Cruel Exodus”
Enterprise Picture Story
1st - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberia’s Post War Struggle”
2nd - Josh Hawkins, Freelance, “Battle With Breast Cancer”
3rd - Chris Sweda, Chicago Sun-Times, “Chicago At Night”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications, “Skin Deep”
HM - Jonathan Miano, Sun Publications, “Ten Minutes and Ten Dollars”
Sports Picture Story
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “Beijing Games”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “The Season-Fenger Academy”
3rd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberia’s forgotten champions”
Road To Office Picture Story
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune, “The South Side Brings it Home for Obama”
2nd - Charles Rex Arbogast, Associated Press, “Faces in the Crowd: The Obama Campaign”
Illinois Best of Multimedia 2008 professional & student contest winners
Multimedia Portfolio of the Year
1st - Christopher Booker, Chicago Tribune (Portfolio pieces: one, two, three, four)
2nd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Portfolio pieces: one, two, three, four)
Pro Individual Multimedia Project
1st - Mark R. Welsh, Daily Herald, “Last Letters Home”
2nd - Christopher Booker, Chicago Tribune, “Lollapalooza in the Round”
Pro Individual Video Piece
1st - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald, “Jeff’s Last Delivery”
2nd - Wes Pope, Chicago Tribune, “An enduring war remembered”
3rd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Goodbye Gundlach”
HM - Valerie Tobias, Northwest Herald, “Kids get out the vote’
HM - Christopher Booker, Chicago Tribune, “Malachi the Mighty“
Pro Individual Slide Show
1st - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Straight Time”
2nd - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberia’s Forgotten Champions”
3rd - Emily Rasinski, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “A camp with heart”
HM - Kuni Takahashi, Chicago Tribune, “Liberia: Child Soldiers”
Pro Team Slide Show
1st - Todd Mizener & The Dispatch, “Rock River flooding”
2nd - Chris Walker & The Chicago Tribune, “Photo essay: Joy and sorrow in 2008″
HM - Matt Grotto, Southtown Star, “Laborers of the Night”
Pro Team Video piece
1st - Scott Strazzante & MediaStorm, “Common Ground”
2nd - Christopher Booker & The Chicago Tribune, “Trump Tower: 92 stories in just over two minutes”
3rd - Heather Eidson, The Beacon News, “A Flight to Remember”
Pro Team Multimedia Project
1st - Brian Hill & The Daily Herald, “NIU, Return, Remember, Recover”
2nd - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald, “Tragedy on Campus”
HM - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald, “Do Your Job”
Student Slide Show
1st - Emily Sunblade, Southern Illinois University, “Cache River”
2nd - Jody Warner, Columbia College Chicago, “Will Whedbee - making beautiful music”
3rd - Patrick Traylor, University of Illinois, “Therepy Riding”
Student Video & Multimedia
HM - Patrick Traylor, University of Illinois, “Fighting for Life”
HM- Patrick Traylor, University of Illinois, “Jordbruksdagarna”
Special thanks to:
- Think Tank Photo for sponsoring the Multimedia Portfolio of the Year winner prize!
- Our multimedia contest judges:
Think Tank Photo sponsors iBOM
Think Tank Photo has signed on to support the IPPA and the Illinois Best of Multimedia contest. Select winners in the iBOM will receive camera bags donated by the company.
Plus, we have been added to their affiliate program. When you shop for a bag, go to thinktankphoto.com/affiliate and enter code AP-279 — you will get a free bag with every order over $50, and part of your purchase will come back to the IPPA.
Thanks to Think Tank Photo for their generous sponsorship!
NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year winner, Ami Vitale, speaking at the IPPA - WNPA conference
Ami Vitale is an independent journalist based in New Delhi, India. Her photography and stories from events in Europe, The Middle East and Africa have appeared in publications including Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The Guardian, The Telegraph Sunday Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, and MSNBC, among others. Ms. Vitale has won numerous awards for her work, including Magazine Photographer of the year, National Press Photographers Association.
> Read more about the IPPA - WNPA conference here
Emmy Award-winner, Dai Sugano, speaking at the IPPA - WNPA convention
Dai Sugano is an Emmy Award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com whose interactive story telling has been judged among the world’s best two years in a row in the Pictures of the ear International contest. Sugano covers wide range of assignments which have included: Poverty in India, Hmong refugees’ immigration to the United States; the California Recall; former Japanese Internment camp survivors and number of stories in politics. In 2008, “Uprooted,” which looks at displacement of a group of mobile home residents in Sunnyvale, won an Emmy Award in New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries. His other work have been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize in photography; and have received international and national recognitions.
> Read more about the other speakers at the IPPA - WNPA convention
George W. Bush’s White House Photographer Eric Draper joins the conference lineup
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney check their watches in the Oval Office before departing for the swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of State Colin Powell, Jan. 26, 2001. White House Photo by Eric Draper
Eric Draper served as Special Assistant to the President and White House Photographer for President George W. Bush. Draper documented the entire eight years of the Bush administration and directed the conversion of the White House Photo Office from film to digital.
Prior to joining the White House, Draper was West Regional Enterprise Photographer for the Associated Press. His many assignments included the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, the Kosovo conflict in 1999, and the 1998 World Cup in France.
Draper has also worked as a staff photographer for The Seattle Times, the Pasadena Star-News and the Albuquerque Tribune.
He won the Associated Press Managing Editors’ Award for three consecutive years, the 1999 National Headliner Award and was named 1992 Photographer of the Year by Scripps Howard Newspapers. He is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach.
> Read more about the IPPA - WNPA conference here
IPPA - WNPA Conference hotels announced
Book your rooms! We have a couple options for housing during the IPPA/WNPA conference March 20-21 in Madison.
First option is the The Lowell Center at the University of Wisconsin. It’s pretty much next door to The Pyle Center, where the conference will be held. It’s not a hotel, it’s more like a dorm, yet more hotel-y. For Reservations ring 866.301.1753 and ask for WNPA/IPPA rooms.
$89 single/ $99 for a double
Second is The Madison Concourse Hotel, about 0.75 of a mile from The Pyle Center. Our Wisconsin cohorts say this is a very nice hotel, just off State Street, and we’re getting the rooms at a great price. WNPA is working on getting a shuttle bus to ferry people to and from the convention, so you won’t have to hassle with parking.
For Reservations ring 800.356.8293 and ask for WNPA/IPPA rooms. We have a 40-room block held until Feb. 28.
$139 single/$149 double
If you want swanky accommodations a 5-minute walk from the conference at $159/night contact The Edgewater at 800.922.5512 and ask for WNPA/IPPA rooms. (2 rooms open in block) $159
Beyond that, you’re on your own to find whatever deals you want. The above hotels were chosen for proximity to campus, and we were able to negotiate great rates.
The conference will be organized in familiar fashion.
- Friday will be iBOP judging all day (pop in on the WNPA’s contest, too). iSBOP judging in the afternoon. In the evening we have an official site for dinner (on your own) and hospitality.
- Saturday will be the education day, check ippaonline.com for updates on speakers.
Remember, if you entered the iBOP contest your conference fee is paid, so you might as well learn something and have some fun.
Thanks to John Maniaci of the Wisconsin State Journal for all his work organizing the conference!
Looking forward to being there!
Steve Warmowski