Ohio News Photographer April 2005 ONPA Still Photographer of the Year John Kuntz The Plain Dealer Member News Dispatch seminars kick off ONPA convention An early bird program at The Columbus graphic storytelling innovative management readers. Major awards include the Canon Dispatch kicks off this years ONPA conven- ideas and steadfast ethical thinking. He is the Photo Essayist Award, the Robert F. Kennedy tion and seminar Friday, April 15. founder of Poynter's photojournalism pro- Photojournalism Award, the Oscar Barnak The educational seminar will begin gram. Award, the World Press Photo Award, and Friday night at The Dispatch with hands on Andre Jones, CNN national bureau chief has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice. training for still and television photogra- photographer for the past 9 years. He has Amy Sancetta, Associated Press photogra- phers. Karl Kuntz, managing editor/graphics worked in broadcasting for 30 years. Jones pher based in Cleveland is no stranger to this will share his renowned Photoshop skills. got his start in Public Television in audience. Sancetta was is New York City Kuntz’s presentation will be followed Washington D.C. and later moved to Atlanta when the Twin Towers fell to a terrorist with tips for digital video editing on your working at ABC affiliate WSB-TV for 20 attack. She chased Mark McGuire chasing computer. At the same time some of The years. Roger Maris, walks the fairways each spring Dispatch staffers will offer a location lighting Isadore Bleckman, CBS News photographer at The Masters after March Madness winds session. for 36 years, working with Charles Kuralt down and spent last summer in Greece cover- You can check-in and registration at the and traveling the world for “Sunday ing the Olympics. She can usually be found paper Friday evening at 6 pm. The program Morning”. 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Uninversity died November 6, at the After the May 4 tragedy at the school, Photographer of the Year Cleveland Clinic following a brief illness. he was recruited by the Rochester Institute Beck taught photogrpahy for thirty of Photography to coordinate its Master of Cleveland Indians catcher years at Kent State beginning in 1947, Fine Arts program, a doctoral level degree, Victor Martinez is hit by a with breaks to work in other settings. from 1970-73. He devolped his own process for Once again Beck returned to Kent pitch off of Chicago White making color photo prints several yers Sox pitcher Shingo State and retired from the university in before Eastman Kodak markeed its pro- 1984. Takatsu. The puff of white fessional materials for creating color He is survived by his wife of 54 is dust off of Martinez’s prints. years, Carol, and his sons, Doug and leg. From 1954 to 1958 Beck was color Jonathan Beck. 2 www.onpa.org April 2005 Annual still contest John Kuntz ONPA Photographer of the Year The Plain Dealer staff dominates the competition winning 28 individual awards Ed Suba Jr. Bureau Chief/Photos for the Associated Press in ONPA President Washington, DC., and Francis Gardler, a staff photog- A check on the definition of the word domination, rapher for Patuxent Publishing Company. at least in Ohio dictionaries, will no doubt now contain 34 photographers entered the POY competition the words "The Plain Dealer" somewhere in the text. and Kuntz's porfolio was chosen for being the one body The photo staff at the Cleveland newspaper not of work "that contained a great story, solid singles and only swept the top three spots in the Photographer of had the visual style of being shot by the same person," the Year category in the 53rd Ohio News Photographers said Gardler. "The work in the winning portfolio was Association's Pictures of the Year competition, it was consistent, balanced and of high quality," John Hall named the best photography staff in the over 100,000 added. "The other finalists all seemed to have either a circulation category for the fifth consecutive year. good story and poor singles or several good singles but lacked at least one qual- John Kuntz ity story." The Plain Dealer The judges were impressed with the quality of the work Photographer entered in the competi- of the Year tion. "So many of the pictures put readers where they can't go," Quinn said. All three agreed it was difficult trying to decide between the very high caliber of the entries in several categories, especially portrait and personality and sports action. Both categories garnered seven awards. All the judges men- tioned the need for John Kuntz, The Plain Dealer - Award of Excellence, Spot News: Cleveland firefighter Bill Lestock tighter editing in the vents the roof of a duplex from inside the home where an upstairs fire destroyed the top of the portfolios and the story duplex. The photo also was an Assoicated Press Member’s Showcase Photo fo the Month. categories. Alysia Ogelsby It is the first POY The Columbus John Kuntz was named Photographer of the Year, award for Kuntz, who, after graduating from Ohio Dispatch followed by Mike Levy, four-time POY winner, and University in 1992, worked for Agence France-Presse third place finisher, Joshua Gunter. Individually, the and Reuters News Service before joining the staff at James R. Gordon paper's Andrea Levy continued her individual domina- The Plain Dealer in 1998. Kuntz was runner-up for tion of the Issue Illustration category by producing the POY in 2003 and placed third in last year's competition. Understanding first place winner for the sixth consecutive year. Kuntz, who has followed the footsteps of his pho- Award "To place one, two and three in the photographer tojournalist father, Ron, has covered a variety of assign- of the year competition is a tremendous accomplish- ments in his career, from the World Series, Super Bowl, ment,” said Plain Dealer director of photography Bill the Oklahoma City bombing and the Gugliotta, "especially since there are so many excellent Olympics. photographers in Ohio. Winning staff of the year for the "I was pleasently suprised when fifth straight year is very gratifying as well. We're all our DOP Bill Gugliotta gave me a call very proud of John, Mike and Josh and the entire pho- at home to inform me of the results," tography staff." Kuntz said. "For me, contests are Fred Squillante of The Columbus Dispatch cap- rough. I edit through a whole year's tured the lone Award of Excellence in the POY catego- work never really happy with the ry. Squillante was POY in 1997 and placed third in results. I'm my worst critic, unfortu- 1992. nately," Kuntz continued. "I'm honored Alysia Oglesby, also from The Columbus to be the pick for the POY and want to Dispatch, took home the James R. Gordon Ohio thank my fellow photographers and Understanding Award for her entry "Escaping Death's editors at the PD for their help on keep- Shadow". ing things in perspective. Also, I wanted to give special Samanth Reinders Akron Beacon Journal photographer Lindsay thanks to my father Ron Kuntz for all the photo instruc- Ohio University Semple's first place Sports Action winner was named tion I sponged off of him and learning to make photo- Best of Show. journalism fun." 113 photographers submitted more than 1700 Individually, Kuntz collected a first place award in Student entries in this year's competition.