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EXTENDED DEADLINE ENDS 9/23/12 @ 11:59pm PST
JUDGES
Fine Art Sarah Kennel is associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of California, Berkeley, completing her dissertation on the relationship between dance and modernism in early 20th-century France. Kennel was at the National Gallery of Art from 1999 to 2001 as a Mary Davis Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She has taught classes in the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University and George Washington University. Kennel was a contributor for The Art of Romare Bearden(2003) and then joined the department of photographs in 2004, where she has curated or contributed to numerous exhibitions including André Kertész (2005), Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art (2006); The Art of the American Snapshot(2007); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008); In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age (2009); and The Serial Portrait Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years (2012). She is currently organizing the exhibitionCharles Marville: Photographer of Paris, slated to open in 2013. Larissa Leclair is the founder of the Indie Photobook Library (www.indiephotobooklibrary.org), a physical archive that collects and showcases self-published and indie published photobooks. Pop-up exhibitions of photobooks from the iPL collection have been part of the Flash Forward Festival, FotoWeek DC, Photolucida, the New York Photo Festival, Review Santa Fe, Lishui Photography Festival, the Peabody Essex Museum, among others. She is a contributor to photo-eye's Best Books annual survey, nominated "Kitintale" by Yann Gross for the 4th International Photobook Festival Photobook Award in Kassel, Germany, 2011, and was a judge for the Photography Book Now competition 2011. Leclair regularly writes a feature in VOP Magazine (Taiwan) on books from the Indie Photobook Library collection. Larissa Leclair is also an independent curator. She co-curated the exhibition "100 Portraits - 100 Photographers" with Andy Adams. In addition, she is a regular reviewer for Critical Mass. Documentary/Photojournalism Marianne Koszorus has worked at National Geographic for 35 years. She has applied her diverse talents to designing hundreds of children’s and adult books, ranging from pop-up books to authoritative reference volumes. For the last 12 years Marianne has been the Design Director of the Book Division, which currently publishes a wide range of titles from travel guides and illustrated references to narrative non-fiction and exquisite photography books and atlases. The yearly list often reaches beyond 100 titles, many of which find their way onto the New York Times Bestseller List or achieve prestigious awards in various categories for design and content. In an ever-changing world with ever-changing challenges, especially in the publishing arena, it is the passion for Geographic’s mission -the “increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge” paralleled with the stewardship of our planet -- that keep her talents, enthusiasm and energy fresh and focused. Gina Martin, a native of California, has lived in Washington, DC since 1996. She has worked for National Geographic since 2000, and is a photographer representative licensing NG photography to international editorial clients for the National Geographic Image Collection. Gina has a broad range of artistic interests. She is very active in the photo community mentoring young and emerging photographers. In addition, she has worked for the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, VA since its beginning in 2007.Gina is a passionate supporter of photographers and their work and has an extensive photography book collection ranging from traditional, fine art, and documentary photography. Lucian Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1995 & 2000), worked as a staff photographer for the Washington Post for 27 years. He has covered many major events including the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, the Gulf War, Russia and the former Soviet Union since 1988, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and daily and political events in Washington, DC. In 1995 his photo of a young boy in war-torn Chechnya was awarded World Press Photo of the Year, and in 1994 he was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the NPPA for a portfolio of stories on Russia and a behind-the-scenes look at the New York fashion shows, later published in a book entitled Runway Madness. Perkins also co-founded InterFoto, a non-profit that mounted an annual international photography conference in Moscow, Russia (1995-2005), and produced exchange programs, exhibitions and workshops. His work has been reproduced in newspapers, magazines, and websites around the world, and has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions. Currently, he is an independent photographer and filmmaker concentrating on multimedia projects and documentaries.
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