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z OhioNews March/April 2004 Photographer PAGE 2 OHIO NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER MARCH/APRIL 2004 Speaker,televisionclipchairchanges Isadore Bleckman slated to speak at this the new year brings with it a new clip chair- years convention will be unable to partici- man for the Television Quarterly Clip pate so that he might attend a memorial Contest. Bill Reagan from WBNS-TV in service for a longtime friend from his days Columbus will take over for Tony Giordullo ONPAOhioNewsPhotographersAssociationInc. working with Charles Kuralt for the CBS of WLWT-TC in Cincinnati. Sunday Morning Show. Giordullo is stepping down citing time Bleckman will be replaced on the pro- demands of his family and job leaving him BOARD CHAIRMAN BOB DEMAY gram however as this issue goes to press we unable to continue taking on these duties so PHONE (330) 996-3880 are waiting on confirmation for his substi- that it may benefit the membership of E-MAIL [email protected] tute. ONPA. ONPA Photographer of the Year Dale Giordullo will be the first to admit the Omori of The Plain Dealer has been added contest may have not been administered in a PRESIDENT ED SUBA JR. to the program for still photographers. timely matter in the past year, it should be PHONE (330) 996-3880 Omori swept the major awards in this years noted however that when he took over the contest and also won the Clip POY title in contest from Dave Colabine when he left E-MAIL [email protected] 2002. Ohio no one else stepped forward to do the Complete information on the program job. STILL VICE PRESIDENT LISA DUTTON changes will be posted to the Website as Despite all the complaints from mem- soon as it is available and in all likelihood is bers in the past year, a direct mail and PHONE (419) 724-6143 there before this issue reaches your mailbox. newsletter notice seeking a replacement E-MAIL [email protected] Registration forms for the event were brought about one person willing to step in mailed in mid February. For those who have and that was Bill Reagan. been putting registration off there is a form Hats off to both Reagan and Giordullo TV VICE PRESIDENT VINCE SHIVERS on the adjacent page of this newsletter. for stepping forward and giving of their PHONE (330) 744-8821 As a reminder the board will be accept- time, a very valuable commodity in the news E-MAIL [email protected] ing proposals for hosting next years conven- business. tion at the business meeting during this Quarterly entries for the contest should years event. now be mailed to: SECRETARY LINDSAY SEMPLE Members are also reminded that dues PHONE (330) 996-3880 renewals are overdue. You are no longer eli- Bill Reagan gible for member benefits including entering WBNS-TV E-MAIL [email protected] the still or television clip contests. 770 Twin Rivers Drive Columbus, OH 43215 Television members should note that TREASURER KIMBERLY BARTH PHONE (330) 996-3880 TURBETT PHOTOS AT NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM E-MAIL [email protected] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History will be displaying an exhibit of STILL CLIP CONTEST MARTIN LERMAN photographs by Peggy Turbett, PHONE (216) 225-1107 "Beyond Timbuktu: Images of Mali," E-MAIL [email protected] from March 13 to August 29, 2004. The exhibit in the Corning Gallery BILL REAGAN will be part of the museum's major TV CLIP CONTEST exhibition of West African artifacts PHONE (614) 460-3950 and culture, "Senenkunya: Many E-MAIL [email protected] Voices, One Family." The 19 photographs were made during a 17-day journey to Mali in January 2002, and explore the daily rhythm of life in the West African ©Peggy Turbett OhioNewsPhotographer Country surrounding the legendary city Sifting flour into calabash bowls, a Bobo woman The official publication of the Ohio News of Timbuktu. prepares dinner in Kanga, Mali. Her work is multi- Photographers Association Inc. Turbett is a picture editor at The plied throughout Mali, where women cook the Plain Dealer. evening meal over open fires. EDITOR BOB DEMAY PHONE (330) 996-3880 E-MAIL [email protected] ON THE COVER ADDRESS LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE Dale Omori TO THE EDITOR AT: The Plain Dealer 8300 SAPPHIRE AVE NE CANTON, OH 44721 JENNIFER MAENAKA, A THERAPIST AT THE AUTISM CENTER, ATTEMPTS TO PROMPT THREE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHE AUGIER TO IMITATE HER. IMITATION COMES NATURALLY FOR TYPICAL CHILDREN, BUT NOT AUTISTIC CHILDREN. CHRISTOPHE HAS TWO BROTHERS WHO ALSO SUFFER FROM ONPAOnline AUTISM. THE STORY, BY DALE OMORI OF THE PLAIN DEALER, WAS CHO- www.onpa.org SEN BEST OF SHOW IN THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL STILL CONTEST. OMORI WAS WEBMASTER MARK DUNCAN ALSO SELECTED AS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AND WON THE JAMES HONE R. GORDON OHIO UNDERSTANDING AWARD. OMORI WILL BE A SPEAKER AT P (216) 771-2172 THE ONPA CONVENTION APRIL 3 IN CUYAHOGA FALLS. E-MAIL [email protected] JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2004 OHIO NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER PAGE 3 ONPA Convention2004 April2&3,2004-SheratonSuitesHotel-1989FrontSt-CuyahogaFalls,OH Dale Omori - The Plain Dealer photographer’s work Barry Gutierrez - Pulitzer Prize winning photojour- was selected as the Best in Ohio this year sweeping all nalist at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver Colorado the major awards. His work this past year has received where he has worked for the last four years. Gutierrez national recognition as well winning Best Portfolio in the attended Western Kentucky University in the mid-90’s, National Headliner Awards. Omori also placed first for interning at the Piqua Daily Call, the Philadelphia Inquirer Issue Reporting Picture Story in the 61st Annual Pictures and the San Jose Mercury News. After leaving school he of the Year competition. The story, “Robert” was part of his was hired as a full-time temporary employee at the San a series, “Children Left Behind” which also won the Jose Mercury News as a photographer/picture editor James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award this year. before being hired at the Rocky Mountain News. Matt Knisley - Since 2003 Matt has been the Kurt Mutchler - His roots go back to Ohio working for Director Of Photojournalism for KMSP/WFTC. He got his the Associated Press as a stringer while attending Ohio start as a photojournalist at WGAL and WHTM in State University. Mutchler interned at the AP in Chicago, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Since then he has worked inter- The Plain Dealer and The Cleveland Press. After graduat- nationally as a photojournalist and as a reporter in the ing in 1981, he worked in New Orleans at The Times- Midwest. Matt finally ventured back in to photojournalism Picayune, where I spent seven years as a photographer at KTUL in Tulsa, before moving to KNXV in Phoenix. and six years as the graphics editor in charge of the pho- tography and art departments. In 1994, I joined National April Saul - April is an award-winning staff photojour- Geographic magazine as an Illustrations Editor, where I nalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has received the continue to produce the visual content for stories—pho- Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism tography, art, graphics and maps. Award. She has been named Northern Photographer of the Year, New Jersey Photographer of the Year and Douglass Oster - Picture Editor at the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Photographer of the Year. She has received Post-Gazette will be the guest editor to coordinate portfo- the prestigious Budapest Award at the World Press Photo lio reviews for students and other interested parties. Competition and was the first recipient of the Nikon/NPPA Sabbatical Grant. REGISTRATION ONPA CONVENTION 2004-EDUCATION DAY & AWARDS DINNER NAME EMPLOYER MAILING ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP PHONE E-MAIL ONPA MEMBER $45 SEND PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION FORM TO: STUDENT $25 KIM BARTH/PHOTO DEPARTMENT AKRON BEACON JOURNAL 44EEXCHANGE ST AKRON,OH44309 NON-MEMBER $55 MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO ONPA,INC. OUT OF STATE $45 LIFE MEMBER Free $ LATE REGISTRATION FEE SHERATON SUITES AFTER MARCH 8,2004 $30 $ AKRON/CUYAHOGA FALLS STATE ROUTE 8AT B ROAD BLVD. AWARDS DINNER SAT NIGHT $32 $ ROOMS $89PER NIGHT PLUS TAX NUMBER ATTENDING FOR RESERVATIONS CALL (330)929-3000 Totalenclosed $ WWW.SHERATONAKRON.COM PAGE 4 OHIO NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER MARCH/APRIL 2004 Somedoorsarebetterleftunopenedwhenyouhaveamistress In an interview with Vince Shivers, always blink on and off is the problem. The are the presidents. Keep going. Armando Cantu, a CBS News Photographer lights seem to go off right after a monsters The door with all the burn marks and takes you on a candid photo-essay of his face appears in front of you. There are many bullet holes, that's the LA Riots. It doesn't career. doors lining the corridors. Enter that one and say, KEEP OUT, for nothing. The first of January, my anniversary and you will find a clown I once shot. It was a That black door; that's where the rapists, Thirty-three years have passed. Three wives tiny circus. I don't recall the town. As a cam- molesters and murderers breathe. I won't go have come and gone. I cheated on every one eraman I know when I'm about to shoot a in there. of them. story that will be better than most. This was The door with the confetti and party Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, my one of them. He made kids sing with laugh- tape...that's the door that leads into ten years baby's parties, nothing could keep me away ter. He was able to laugh adults into kids. of Texas politics. I covered the Texas from her. Sick or well, it didn't Legislature. I had a great time matter; I had to be with her.