2000 Pictures of the Year International judges:
Cole Campbell, Fellow, Kettering Foundation
Campbell is a Kettering Fellow at the Kettering Foundation, which supports research and forums devoted to studying what it takes for democracy to work well. He spent most of 2000 as a Poynter Fellow. He has served as editor in chief of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Virginian-Pilot, The Daily Tar Heel and Tar Heel: The Magazine of North Carolina. He was a reporter at the Chapel Hill Newspaper and a reporter and an editor at The News & Observer and the Greensboro News & Record. He has been a teacher, a writing coach, a Pulitzer juror, a free-lance writer, the editor of
several books and the author of one book and a number of chapters and articles. He graduated with an A.B. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford and is now studying for a Ph.D. through The Union Institute in Cincinnati.
MaryAnne Golon, Picture Editor, TIME Magazine
Golon recently joined TIME magazine, for the second time, as a picture editor. Previously, she was director of photography at US News & World Report where she helped the magazine win numerous awards for its use of photography. In addition, Golon has judged the past two Pictures of the Year competitions and has been a jury member for the 1998-1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards and the Visa Pour L’Image photojournalsim festival in Perpigan, France. During the Gulf War, Golon served as the on-site photography editor for TIME and LIFE magazines, and she coordinated the photographic coverage of the Olympic Games from 1984 to 1996. Golon, who is on the board of directors for the Eddie Adams Workshop, graduated with honors from the University of Florida in 1983 and completed a fellowship at Duke University in 1990.
Terrence Antonio James, Publisher/Editor, Souleyes Magazine
James launched SOULEYES, an online journal of documentary photography located at http://www.souleyes.com, with the mission of documenting communities of color. The magazine publishes photo essays, single images and works-in-progress, with a strong preference for photographers' personal projects and always with the goal of presenting new visions of diverse communities. SOULEYES won an Award of Excellence in the 57th POY competition and has been a "site of the day" on Yahoo, britannica.com and usatoday.com, among others. Currently a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune, James previously worked at the Bergen Record in New Jersey. Before working at the Record, he was a photo intern at Newsweek Magazine and a freelance photographer in New York.
Bryan Moss, Photo Coach, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Moss has been a manager, a picture editor, a photography coach, a photographer, a multi-media producer, a teacher and a computer programmer. He's worked at 12 different newspapers in 34 years, including The Courier-Journal in Louisville, The Rocky Mountain News, The Los Angeles Times, The San Jose Mercury News and The San Francisco Chronicle. At the Courier-Journal, he was on the photo staff that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and he was the director of photography at The Mercury News when the whole newspaper staff was awarded a Pulitzer. He graduated from Indiana University in 1966 with a journalism degree. In 1997 he was a visiting professor at the University of Montana. Just before he came to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Moss was Assistant Managing Editor for Visuals at the Evansville Courier & Press. In addition to serving as a faculty member of the Kalish Picture Editing Workshop, he and wife Mary Jo also run the White Cloud Workshop for photojournalists.
Vince Musi, Freelance Photographer
Musi is a freelance photographer who's work is regularly featured in the pages of National Geographic Magazine on subjects ranging from life under an active volcano to life along Route 66. His work is also published in a variety of magazines and newspapers around the world. He has contributed to a number of books and recently completed a book on Asturias and Cantabria, two regions in the north of Spain. He currently working on a book of photographs from Route 66. He is a former Pittsburgh Press staff photographer and a former intern at The Troy Daily News, The Missoulian, The Palm Beach Post and the San Jose Mercury News. He thanks them all for their patience. He has never won "photographer of the year" but has come close, placing in both the newspaper and magazine divisions of the Pictures of the Year competition.
Peggy Peattie, Photographer, Union-Tribune
Peattie joined the Union-Tribune in 1998. She spent two years at Ohio University on a Knight Journalism Scholarship, teaching and earning a Master’s degree in Visual Communication. In 1997, she won the first professional Alexia Foundation Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding. She spent three years at The State in Columbia, S.C.; one year at The Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif. and five years The Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram. She was named the Greater LA Press Photographer of the Year five years in a row, and has twice been the California POY runner-up. She has also won several awards in the NPPA’s POY contest. In addition, she has taught at two International Photojournalism Workshops and was a speaker for the NPPA flying short course in 1992.
Rita Reed, Photographer, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Reed has been with the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 14 years. She began her career at The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after earning a graduate degree from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1984. She was the 1993 recipient of the Nikon Sabbatical Grant, with which she continued her photography of gay and lesbian teenagers, a work initially undertaken as a project for the Star Tribune. The resulting essay was published in 1997 as the book "Growing Up Gay." Reed has been named Minnesota Photographer of the Year three times and Iowa Photographer of the Year once. In 1990, The World Press Photo Association exhibited her photographs of the drug war in South America. She frequently serves on the Missouri Photo Workshop faculty. Reed is currently on leave from the Star Tribune for a year while serving as a Visiting Associate Professor of Photojournalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.

 
Joel Sartore, Freelance Photographer, National Geographic
Sartore graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1985 with a degree in journalism. He then became a photographer for The Wichita Eagle before beginning his career with National Geographic in 1990. Since then, he has covered land use issues and wildlife extensively, completing 14 stories for the magazine. He recently authored a book, Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky, and has also collaborated with noted author Douglas Chadwick on The Company We Keep: America’s Endangered Species. His work has also appeared in Audubon, LIFE, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, TIME and numerous book projects including the Day in the Life series. Sartore and his work have been featured on National Geographic Explorer, NPR, the National Geographic Channel, and CBS This Morning. Recently, he helped found the Conservation Alliance of the Great Plains in Lincoln, Nebraska.

 
Callie Shell, Freelance Photographer, former White House Photographer
Shell was the official photographer for Vice President Al Gore during his entire term. Her work is like that of a "photographic historian," documenting three political campaigns, one impeachent, numerous state dinners and roughly 50,000 handshakes. Her work from the White House has been published extensively around the world. She was part of the book project, The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America; an exhibit of the work was shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. She has also exhibited her work at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh and at Visa pour l'image in Perpignan, France. Before coming to the White House, she was a staff photographer at The Pittsburgh Press. She has also worked for USA Today and the Nashville Tennessean. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a BA in political science.
Scott Sommerdorf, Director of Photography, San Francisco Chronicle
Sommerdorf started as a photographer at The Chronicle in 1987, then transitioned into picture editing in 1991. He was promoted to his current position in 1994. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., Scott later moved to Sacramento, Calif. and attended Sacramento City College, where he served as photo editor, and later as editor, of the weekly student newspaper. He later studied at the University of California at Davis. While still a student at Davis, he was hired as a photographer at the Sacramento Union. He spent nine years there prior to coming to The Chronicle. Sommerdorf has been the recipient of numerous awards from the NPPA, including being part of a team of editors receiving first place in newspaper editing for a series. He has also been honored by the California Press Photographers Association and the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association.
Donald Winslow, Producer/Co-founder, New Media for Non Profits
Winslow's new venture, New Media for Non Profits, located at http://www.nmnp.org, designs web strategies and websites and new media methods for non-profit organizations, humanitarian missions, and philanthropic groups and individuals whose goals and vision coincide with those of the NMNP founders. He is also the Media Archive Manager at CNET: The Computer Network in San Francisco, Calif. He has also served as the Director of Photography for CNET Online. Winslow has had a lengthy career as a photojournalist, writer, picture editor, graphics editor, producer, photo magazine editor, and news designer. He has worked for REUTERS and REUTERS NewMedia, as well as The Palm Beach Post; The Pittsburgh Press; The Milwaukee Journal Co.; The Republic in Columbus, Ind.; The Wabash (Ind.) Plain Dealer and The Indiana Daily Student.
Susan Zavoina, Associate Professor, University of North Texas
Zavoina is associate professor and coordinator of the photojournalism sequence at the University of North Texas. Currently, she is co-authoring a textbook, "Digital Photojournalism," and is co-editor and contributing author of "Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender and Identity." She has also served as a research fellow for the Poynter Institute. Zavoina's most recent study, "Photojournalism in the 21st century," done in conjunction with Newsday and the Poynter Institute, was presented during the national APME conference. She received a grant from the Freedom Forum Foundation to photograph the effect of litter on Texas beaches. Her most recent photographs are exhibited in the show "Image 2000." She has served as head of Visual Communication for the Assoc. for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has taught classes in Romania.