58th CPOY

All are invited
to the Judging of 58^th Annual College Photographer of the Year Competition

The Judging is free and open to all:

Judging of the College Photographer of the Year contest will take place in Tucker Forum inside Gannett Hall on the University of Missouri campus. Everyone is invited to attend the judging. It is a great educational experience for anyone interested in photography and especially helpful for those wishing to see some of the best photography produced by college students. Be sure to listen during the final rounds of judging the categories because that is commonly when the judges will speak about the photographs and discuss why certain images are the best of the year.

+ Judging will take place starting after lunch on November 2, 2003 and will continue through November 5, 2003. Judging times for each category are listed below. Because of the nature of the judging, times are approximate.

	Robert Cohen, 38, is a staff photographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Previously he has worked for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, TN and The Hollywood (FL) Sun-Tattler. A journalism graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, Cohen has been honored six times as Regional Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographer's Association. He is a member of the Scripps-Howard Editorial Hall of Fame, a best-of-show winner of the National Headliner Awards and his work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International. He lives in St. Louis with his wife Kim, six-year-old daughter Natalie Anne and two-year-old son Sam Austin.
	John Davidson is a partner in Creative Eye Consulting, specializing in visual therapy for the newsroom. Before leaving in January of 2003, Davidson was Assistant Managing Editor/Photography and Senior Editor/Visuals at The Dallas Morning News. During his 18 years at The Dallas Morning News the photography department won four Pulitzer Prizes, made significant contributions to two others and were finalists four times. The department also won four Robert F. Kennedy Photojournalism Awards and had 13 photographers win National Press Photographer's Association Regional Photographer of the Year. In addition, Davidson has been honored with one Gold, three Silver and five Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design for photo editing and design. He has been a visiting faculty member at The Poynter Institute and American Press Institute and was an adjunct professor in visual journalism at Southern Methodist University and the University at North Texas for over six years. Davidson worked as a photographer at the Rolla (MO) Daily News, News Sentinel, Ft Wayne (IN) and The Palm Beach Post-Times, as an editor at The Herald (Everett, WA) and the Director of Photography at The Anchorage Daily News.
	Penny De Los Santos, in her short career, has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards. In 1998, while attending graduate school at Ohio University's School of Visual Communications she was named College Photographer of the Year . She has been a National Geographic Magazine Photographic Intern. In 1999 she was one of 12 photographers from around the world selected by the World Press Foundation to participate in the World Press Joop Stewart Masterclass in Amsterdam. She has received documentary photography grants from Kodak, Canon USA, National Geographic Magazine, Parson's School of Design and The School of Visual Communications at Ohio University. In 2002 De Los Santos returned to her native Texas and is based in Austin where she is currently on assignment for National Geographic Magazine.
	Bonnie Jo Mount is Deputy Managing Editor for Presentation and Interactive at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Mount has worked as a director of photography and as a photojournalist on newspaper staffs in Colorado, Florida, Tennessee, Vermont and Wyoming. She has served as a judge for POYi and a moderator at the Southern Short Course and taught at the Missouri Photo Workshop and the Poynter Institute. She earned her BA in fine arts from the University of South Florida and has studied in the MFA program at the Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, New York). She recently returned from a 10-month John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. (Yes. It was fabulous.)