IPPA iBOP, iSBOP & iBOM Results
Illinois Best of Photojournalism
Spot News
1st - Michael Anzaldi, Freelance ”Citizens Arrest”
2nd - David Pierini, Chicago Tribune “Normal Street shooting”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Alley Suicide”
HM - Alex T. Paschal, Sauk Valley Newspapers “Waiting for Help”
HM - Michael Anzaldi, Freelance ”Fugitive Captured”
HM - Joseph P. Meier “It’s All Gone”
General News
1st - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Last Look”
2nd - Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune “Inauguration”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Deported in Pink”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun “Brianna’s Last Day”
HM -Marianne Mather, The Beacon-News “Nursing Home Veterans Honored”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune ”Honor Flight”
Feature
1st - Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune “Homeless Dad”
2nd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune “Chicago Air & Water Show”
3rd - Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune “Visiting Daddy”
HM - Chris Sweeda, Chicago Tribune “Time for Reflection”
HM - David Pierini, Chicago Tribune “Camera shy?”
HM - Ruthie Hauge Machacek, Pioneer Press - Sun-Times Media “Breathe”
Nature and Environment
1st - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Ice Storm”
2nd - Elie Gardner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Flying peacock”
3rd - John Starks, Daily Herald “Drop It”
HM - George LeClaire, Daily Herald “Nature of Hearts”
Illustration
1st - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications “School District Power”
2nd - Matthew Grotto, Southtown Star “Hospital Food”
3rd - Alex T. Paschal, Sauk Valley Newspapers ”Behind the Door”
Pictorial
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Kitschy Kitchen”
2nd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune ”Nothing To See”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune ”Lifeline”
HM - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune ”Leaves in His Wake”
HM - Beth Rooney, Freelance “Rudy and his canine performers”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “8th Avenue”
Portrait & Personality
1st - Danielle Gardner, Sun Publications “Ryan is at Peace”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Tjorn”
3rd - William DeShazer, Concord Monitor “Sheila Zakre”
HM - Chris Sweda Chicago Tribune “Blocked In”
HM - Beck Diefenbach, The Daily Chronicle “Swimmer of the Year”
Sports Action
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Head Game”
2nd - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register “100m Dash”
3rd - Paul Beaty, Associated Press “Cubs Collide”
HM - Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “High Jump”
HM - Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “Fumble”
Sports Feature
1st - Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “Football Dejection”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Breaking the Huddle”
3rd - William DeShazer, Concord Monitor “Teresa Micals”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Flying Bat”
HM - Michael R. Schmidt, Joliet Herald News “Champs!”
HM- Travis Haughton, Northwest Herald “Four in a Row”
Sports Picture Story
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “A Team Without a Home”
2nd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune “2009 Solheim Cup”
3rd - Brett Roseman, Southtown Starr “Harness Driver”
News Picture Story
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “The Inauguration”
2nd - Michael Anzaldi, Freelance ”Citizens Arrest”
3rd - Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune “Deportation Flights”
HM - Matt Marton, Southtown Star “Heroin Victim”
Feature Picture Story
1st - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune ”Pete and Patty Plus Eight”
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Being Michael”
3rd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune ”Marching to Glory”
HM - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune “Love is Blind”
Sports Portfolio of the Year
1st - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune
2nd - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press
3rd - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune
Illinois Photographer of the Year Portfolio
1st - William DeShazer, Chicago Tribune
2nd - Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune
3rd - Rob Hart, Pioneer Press
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Illinois Best of Multimedia
PRO INDIVIDUAL SLIDESHOWS
1st - Beck Diefenbach, The Daily Chronicle “Stephen Kick’s kicking butt”
2nd - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register “Blagojevich vs. Abraham Lincoln”
3rd - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun “Becoming Santa”
PRO INDIVIDUAL VIDEO PIECES
1st - Heather Charles, The Chicago Tribune “Teen Mom: Planning for a better future”
2nd - Jonathan Miano, Naperville Sun “Mayor For a Day”
3rd - Heather Charles, The Chicago Tribune “Coach by Day, Cop at Night”
HM - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register “A Tour of the Illinois State Fair”
HM - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun “Everything in Balance”
PRO INDIVIDUAL MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
1st - Jonathan Miano, Naperville Sun “The Little Dude”
2nd - Danielle Guerra, Northwest Herald “Camp I Am Me”
PRO TEAM SLIDESHOWS / VIDEO PIECES / MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
(The judges asked to combine these categories)
1st - St. Louis Post Dispatch Staff “Cardinal Culture”
2nd - Naperville Sun Staff “A Day of Remembrance”
STUDENT TEAM SLIDESHOWS / VIDEO PIECES / MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS
(The judges asked to combine these categories)
1st - Julia Rendleman, Daily Egyptian “Bottoms Up”
2nd - Julia Rendleman, Daily Egyptian “Blanche Dubois”
3rd - Dan Dwyer, The Daily Egyptian “Heather’s Story”
MULTIMEDIA PORTFOLIO OF THE YEAR
1st - Heather Charles, The Chicago Tribune
“Coach by day cop at night”
“Teen mom planning for a better future”
“The two hour work commute on public transportation”
2nd - Justin L. Fowler, The State Journal-Register
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm67P6c3nr0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmIGBVYCRI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzDlhBdQhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpnutuFJuaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVJnBieXog
3rd - Danielle Gardner, Naperville Sun
“Becoming Santa”
“Everything in Balance”
“Sing Out Strong”
“Finding a Home”
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Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism results:
News
1st - Joseph Pocs
2nd - Evan Davis
3rd - Ned Mulka
HM - Brian Powers
HM - Julia Rendleman
Features
1st - Brad Vest
2nd - Brad Vest
HM - Patrick Traylor
HM - Genna Ord
Pictorial
1st - Brad Vest
2nd - Brian Powers
3rd - Brian Powers
HM - Brad Vest
Portrait Personality
1st - Diana Soliwan
2nd - Genna Ord
3rd - Julia Rendleman
HM - Anthony Souffle
HM - Diana Soliwan
Sports Action
1st - Brian Powers
2nd - Evan Davis
3rd - Anthony Souffle
Sports Features
HM - Anthony Souffle
HM - Chris Salata
HM - Brian Powers
Picture Story
1st - Brad Vest
2nd - Brian Powers
3rd - Julia Rendleman
Illinois Student Best of Photojournalism Portfolio of the Year
1st - Brian Powers
2nd - Brad Vest
Watch iBOP judging and speakers online *** LIVE NOW ***
If you can’t make it to parts of this weekend’s convention, you can still watch it online on the Illinois Press Photographers Association Web channel.
For the first time, the Illinois Best of Photography contest judging and all speaker presentations will be broadcast online live!
Live chatting will also allow viewers to submit questions following each speaker’s presentation.
The live broadcast schedule:
- Friday (tomorrow) at 10:00 A.M. - iBOP judging
- Saturday at 12:00 P.M. (noon). - All speaker presentations
All broadcasts will also be recorded on the site and can be watched on the Web channel at anytime.
IPPA member Robert Cohen is Pulitzer finalist
This week, IPPA member Robert Cohen was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize . The Illinois Press Photographers Association would like to send a big congratulations to Robert for his hard work chronicling families living in motels during the recession.
Cohen, a photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was a speaker at the 2007 IPPA conference at Northwestern University.
Many more of his images from the story and an audio slide show about the struggling families produced by Robert can be found here.
IPPA convention speaker: Josh Meltzer, Western Kentucky University
Josh Meltzer
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Josh Meltzer joined the faculty at Western Kentucky University in August 2009 to work and teach as a Photojournalist-in-Residence where he teaches photojournalism and multimedia storytelling. A native of Athens, Georgia, Josh is a 1995 graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota, and remained in Minnesota where he began his career at the Duluth News-Tribune in Duluth.
In 2008, after 9 years as a staff photographer and multimedia journalist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia, Josh Meltzer accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to work and teach in Mexico where worked to create a multimedia project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico. In addition to his own work, he taught photography to a group of 11-16-year-olds through a program called Listen to My Pictures, which culminated with a show at a large regional museum in Guadalajara in June 2009.
While at The Roanoke Times, Josh created his first audio slideshow in 1999, and over the next decade created over a hundred audio slideshows, both on daily deadline, and for long-term projects. A few years later he began using video in his reporting, and now uses a mix to create stories through the voices of his subjects and natural sound.
A long-term multimedia project from 2008 on those who provide care for the elderly, called Age of Uncertainty, won the First Place Best Documentary Prize from the POYi, the community service award from the Virginia Press Association, the 1st place convergence award from the APME and the Casey Medals the multimedia prize. The project, shot over 9 months was made up of 8 multimedia stories.
His still and multimedia work has been recognized by NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition, where he was the 2006 Photojournalist of the Year for markets less than 115,000 circulation, POYi, KNPA, VNPA, Atlanta Photojournalism Competition, Northern and Southern Short Courses and the Society of Newspaper Design.
He lives in Bowling Green, KY with his wife Missy Warp. The two are expecting a kid at the end of May 2010.
Related Web sites
Josh Meltzer’s Lightstalker’s page
iBOP, iSBOP, iBOM deadlines extended to March 26
The postmark deadline for the IPPA Best of Photography (iBOP), Student Best of Photography (iSBOP) and Best of Multimedia (iBOM) has been extended a week to Friday March 26. We hope that this extra weekend will give more members the chance to submit their work and get the recognition their deserve. Annual dues are also extended to March 26.
In case you still need to download the forms:
2009 Illinois Best of Photography Contest (iBOP)
- The 2009 iBOP form download.
- The deadline to mail or drop off your iBOP form and entry disc is March 26, 2010.
- Entries should be mailed or dropped off to Allison Williams — Photo Pioneer Press Newspapers, 3701 West Lake Ave. Glenview, IL 60026
2009 Illinois Best of Multimedia Contest (iBOM)
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The online form for the 2009 IPPA Best of Multimedia competition is available here. The deadline for entry is March 26th, 2010.
- Make sure to check the “Multimedia” box in your iBOP (photo contest) form.
- iBOM Entrants must pay the IPPA iBOP contest entry fee.
2009 Illinois Student Best of Multimedia Contest (iSBOP)
- The 2009 IPPA Illinois Student Best of Photography form download.
- Attending an Illinois college or university
- Illinois residents attending out-of-state schools, all work is eligible.
- For out-of-state students interning at Illinois newspapers, only work created during the internship is eligible
- The deadline to mail your iSBOP form and entry disc is March 26, 2010.
- Entries should be mailed to Brian Morowczynski - 2734 N. 74th Ct. Elmwood Park, IL 60707
IPPA convention speaker: Erik Lunsford, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Erik Lunsford
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri
Erik Lunsford, (b. 1980), is currently a staff photojournalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Erik worked previously at The Stuart (FL) News and the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach before returning to St. Louis in 2007.
He interned first at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, then at the Springfield (IL) State Journal-Register and the Peoria (IL) Journal-Star before heading to Florida. A St. Louis University graduate, Erik documents stories ranging from news to sports and features in his own hometown community.
He lives with his wife Karla in south St. Louis.
Related Web sites
Erik Lunsford’s Blog: Uncommons
More information about the convention in St. Louis!
Updated iSBOP form available
There has been a small change in the Illinois Student Best of Photography contest form which should not effect student entires already finished. The new form can be downloaded here.
The change is in the membership/contest fees. Student IPPA membership is now $10 (originally $20). Contest entry is an additional $10 (originally free for student members). This change was made to reduce the cost for out of state students who want to attend the conference in St. Louis but are ineligible to enter the contest because they attend a school outside of Illinois and are not an Illinois native.
That is all.