Celebrating 81 years of Press Photography in Southern California e Press Photographers Association Just of Greater Los Angeles One March/June 2017, Volume 81, Number 1+2 DOWNLOADABLE EDITION Check our web site at www.ppagla.org for complete More, Jr. monthly contest results and judges comments Bill Alkofer/Orange County Register MARCH, SPORTS FEATURE, FIRST PLACE: Servite High School players celebrate their win by spraying water on each other after a game-winning triple. IN THIS ISSUE President’s Point Awards Gary Friedman Photo 3Message 4Standings 6Banquet 8obituary 9Contests PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE & NEWS Banquet filled with memories SAVE THE DATE CPR SEMINAR By John McCoy Mark Terrell made an ad- categories, as well as taking The Los Angeles Fire PPAGLA President ditional presentation to Mackson home Video Photographer of the Department is presenting with an award fashioned out of Year honors. a hands-only CPR The 2016 Awards Banquet at a gold spray-painted mayon- On the still side, Gina Ferazzi seminar on Saturday, Almansor Court will go down as naise jar that was mounted on a from the LA Times and Thomas Aug. 26 from 10 a.m. one of the most memo- plaque. The “MAN-naise Cordova from the Daily Breeze to noon. The seminar rable events that I have of the Year” award was took home multiple awards in 3 location is at the Fire ever been associated given to Mackson for categories. Multiple plaques also House 87 Community with. A big reason for his propensity to put went home with Mark J. Terrell Room at 10124 Balboa that was our lifetime hearty amounts of mayo from the AP, Marcus Yam from Blvd, Granada Hills achievement winner. on almost everything he the LA Times, and Ed Crisos- 91344. Please RSVP In past years, we have eats. In fact, he is known tomo from the Orange County chosen two distinguished to bring a bottle of the Register. to Louis Gabriele at photographers to receive stuff with him whenever On the video side, frequent [email protected]. the award, however this year we he goes out to dine. trips to the dais to pick up EXPOSURES went with only one. The reason Under the category of awards awards were made by Alex according to our treasurer Jim well deserved, Keith Birming- Vasquez from KMEX-TV, Fran- IN JOURNALISM Ober, any other photographer ham won the Still Photographer cisco Vasquez, KMEX-TV, and Join us for the Fall we put on the program next to of the Year honors while Joel Sean Browning from KNBC-TV. 2017 Photojournalism Richard Mackson would look Fallon took home Videographer Marilyn Chung from the show opening night on like a schlub. of the Year. Desert Sun took home awards in Saturday, Sept. 16 from Richard had a distinguished Other highlights included a both video and still categories, 6 to 8 p.m. The show career shooting for Sports Il- dominant performance by Joel while the Los Angeles Times will include the student lustrated, owning a print lab, and Fallon from KCBS & KCAL- swept the Still Photo Essay winning entries and the then moving on to Kodak. But TV. Joel took home so many category. First Place professional his acceptance speech, where plaques that he could probably To see the video of Richard winners from the he channeled the goofy nature frame a new addition to his Mackson giving his speech, and PPAGLA 2016 annual of Donald Trump, brought the house with the wood. He re- other highlights from the awards competition. house down. ceived awards in seven separate banquet, check out ppagla.org. Show and Tell at Cathedral High By David Fernandez PPAGLA Chairman of the Board We recently had a chance to have a “show and tell day” at Cathedral High School. Cathedral High School has a student body of more than 700 young men, most coming from low-income families living in the old- est neighborhoods of Los Angeles. One of our PPAGLA board members, Lou Varela, is a Cathedral alum, and he came to us with the idea of spending some time with Cathedral’s video/audio students. PPAGLA board member Art Quezada, MARCH/JUNE 2017 • a well-known chief videographer from KMEX-TV Los Angeles, volunteered his time and brought a live TV truck to the school for show and tell. The students were eager to see the truck Brother Rock, a teacher at the school and own video departments and having it be- with all its equipment including a current ed- leader of its television department, was very come a good part of their curriculum. iting bay. We first started by showing a Pana- happy when he saw how much we cared We at PPAGLA have volunteered our sonic P-2 camera and how to use a broadcast about his students and their potential at time to many high schools and colleges. We live van. The viewing of the truck so excited becoming future photojournalists. want to do this to help students see their this group of students to step forward and It’s great to see more and more high potential in becoming better photographers JUST ONE MORE, JR. ask very good questions. schools getting involved in creating their and videographers. 3 POINT STANDINGS POINT STANDINGS 2016 CONTEST POINTS THROUGH DECEMBER 2016 2017 CONTEST POINTS THROUGH APRIL 2017 Keith Birmingham Pasadena Star-News 1250 Terry Pierson The Press Enterprise 385 Will Lester Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 240 Ringo Chiu Los Angeles Business Journal / Freelance 780 Keith Birmingham Pasadena Star-News 230 Terry Pierson The Press Enterprise 760 Thomas R. Cordova Daily Breeze / Press-Telegram 230 Will Lester Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 650 Ringo Chiu Los Angeles Business Journal / Freelance 180 Ed Crisostomo Orange County Register 180 Thomas R. Cordova Daily Breeze / Press-Telegram 440 Mark J. Terrill Associated Press 100 Mindy Schauer Orange County Register 360 John McCoy Los Angeles Daily News 90 Ed Crisostomo Orange County Register 230 Bill Alkofer Orange County Register 80 Mindy Schauer Orange County Register 80 Ronen Tivony Freelance 230 David Pardo Victorville Daily Press 50 Bill Alkofer Orange County Register 150 Karen Quincy Loberg Ventura County Star 30 Karen Quincy Loberg Ventura County Star 110 Ronen Tivony Freelance 20 Jennifer Cappuccio Maher Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 20 Robert Hanashiro USA Today 100 Frank Perez Freelance 20 Jennifer Cappuccio Maher 80 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin John M. Blodgett Southern California News Group 10 Rachel Luna San Bernardino Sun 70 Richard Koehler Freelance 10 Micah Escamilla Redlands Daily Facts 70 Michael Goulding Orange County Register 70 Libby Cline Freelance 60 Katharine Lotze Santa Clarita Valley Signal 60 John McCoy Los Angeles Daily News 30 Michael Owen Baker Los Angeles Daily News 30 NIKON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONGRATULATES Rachel Luna San Bernardino Sun 30 THE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION Jayne Kamin-Oncea USA TODAY Sports Images 30 OF GREATER LOS ANGELES AWARD WINNERS Paul Rodriguez Orange County Register 30 Photographer of the Year MARCH/JUNE 2017 MARCH/JUNE 2017 • • Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times 30 KeithTerry Birmingham Pierson Student Photojournalist of the Year Jose Huerta Victorville Daily Press 30 Jose Lopez Stan Lim The Press Enterprise 20 is a registered trademark of Nikon Corporation. ©2016 Inc. is a registered Frank Perez Freelance 10 ® Show Your Love Some Love. | www.nikonusa.com Nikon JUST ONE MORE, JR. JUST ONE MORE, JR. 4 Micah Escamilla Redlands Daily Facts 10 5 June2016 PPAGLA HALF PAGE.indd 1 6/29/16 3:16 PM AWARDS BANQUET AWARDS BANQUET STUDENT THANK YOU LETTERS Dear Past Presidents and Retired Members Scholar- ship Fund, and Sara Wood: I am thankful for the $1,000 scholarship and Nikon Key Mission 360 camera from the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles and Nikon as they will help me grow as a photojournalist. The financial support again is an amazing gift which will allow me to continue traveling and exploring new story opportuni- ties that are not easily reached without funding. Without such funding I would never have been able to commit myself firmly to traveling to capture the photo story of the current changes in Cuba. The scholarship will allow me to plan and fund another trip this summer to find an- other story which will likely be in Mexico. The support through the Nikon Key Mission 360 camera is a great opportunity to explore new forms of storytelling and to stay relevant in this ever changing game of multimedia and to better capture a more complex layer within a story. Overall I am very thankful for all the support that the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Mike Nelson Angeles has offered me which has pushed me to higher John McCoy, left, and Mark Terrell, right, present 2016 Lifetime Achievement honoree achievements in my career of photojournalism. Richard Mackson with “MAN-naise of the Year” award. The award was given to Mack- Sincerely, son for his propensity to put hearty amounts of mayo on almost everything he eats. Jose Lopez, Santa Monica College Dear Past Presidents and Retired Members Scholar- ship Fund, and Sara Wood: Words really can’t express how honored I am to have received The PPAGLA Student Press Photographer of the Year runner up award for 2016. It was also a surprise to have been awarded a schol- arship prize, which will go right back into paying for school, and my photography. Photography is an outlet, and passion that keeps me grounded in this crazy world. I have worked really hard this past year and a half in college to prove to myself, and to Santa Monica College that photography, and photojournalism is a very serious part of my life.