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The 2002 Alexia Competition Winners

Kai Wiedenhoefer
$15,000 professional grant winner.
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Kai Wiedenhoefer, 36, is a freelance photographer from Hamburg, Germany. He began photography in high school after his uncle gave him a Minox camera. Since then he has photographed in Europe, the Middle East and China. He is a graduate of Essen University and participated in World Press Photo Masterclass in 1995. View Full Biography

He was selected from 84 applicants from around the world.

The final three included freelance photographers Stefan Zaklin from Arlington, Virginia and Zalmai from Lausanne, Switzerland.

The judging was done at Syracuse University by Jim Preston, AME for Photography at the Baltimore Sun, Michele McNally, picture editor at Fortune Magazine and Bob Gilka, former director of photography at the National Geographic, on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2002.

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Justin Yurkanin
First place student scholarship winner.
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Justin Yurkanin, a senior photojournalism major at Syracuse University won a $9,000 scholarship to study photojournalism at the Syracuse University London Centre and a $1,000 grant to produce his picture story.

Daniel Pepper, a senior philosophy major at the University of Chicago won second. The second place award is a $6,000 scholarship and grant of $500.

Awards of excellence were won by Roberto Westbrook, a graduate student at the University of Florida; Zach Ornitz, a senior photojournalism major at Syracuse University; and Jamie Rose, a graduate student at Syracuse University.

26 students from 14 universities in the U.S. and Europe applied to the competition this year.

Each student winner receives a scholarship that pays part of tuition, fees and living expenses to study photojournalism in London in the fall semester at the Syracuse University London Centre and a cash grant to help produce their proposed story.