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Matt Black
$15,000 professional grant winner.
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Matt Black is a freelance photographer from Lemoncove, Calif. In 1994 he won an Award of Excellence in the Alexia Student Competition when he was a senior history major at San Francisco State University. He has won awards from the World Press Photo Foundation and the National Press Photographers Association. His work has also been honored by the Sunday Magazine Editors Association and Communication Arts, and has been published in Der Spiegel, the New York Times, Newsweek, the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Stern and others. (biography)
He was selected from 119 applicants from around the world.
The final five included Mona Reeder, Staff Photographer at The Dallas Morning News; Francesco Zizola, Magnum Photos Nominee; Sara Terry, freelance photographer from Los Angeles; and Michael Greenlar, freelance photographer from Syracuse, N.Y.
The judging was done at Syracuse University on Feb. 15, 2003. Judges were: Bob Gilka, former National Geographic director of photography and adjunct professor of photojournalism and picture editing at Syracuse University; Kevin Gilbert, president and managing partner of Blue Pixel Digital Experts; and Clem Murray, director of photography at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"We have the desire to give voice to injustice, to give voice to history, to give voice to cultural differences so as to promote understanding. The road is arduous, the road is never ending but we must maintain the commitment to travel that road undaunted."
Aphrodite Tsairis, mother of Alexia Tsairis, talked to the students at the last competition judging. She and her husband Peter Tsairis are creators and sponsors of The Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Read her complete text.
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Christopher Capozziello
First place student scholarship winner.
Christopher Capozziello, a senior Professional Photographic Illustration major at Rochester Institute of Technology, won a $9,000 scholarship to study photojournalism at the Syracuse University London Centre and a $1,000 grant to produce his picture story. Capozziello has interned at the Sun Herald in Gulfport, Miss.
Second place student winner is Jamie Cohen, Syracuse University photojournalism graduate student (see proposal). The second place award is a $6,000 scholarship and a grant of $500. Cohen has done freelance work for The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass., assisted a portrait photographer in New York City, and interned for Mary Ellen Mark.
Award of Excellence winners are Lori Duff, a photojournalism graduate student at the University of Missouri (see proposal); Danny Gawlowski, a Ball State University junior majoring in journalism and anthropology (see proposal); and Leila Navidi, a senior Applied Photography major at RIT (see proposal). Each Award of Excellence winner receives a $500 cash grant and a $1600 scholarship.
Duff has interned at the Birmingham Post-Herald, The Peoria Journal Star, and the Sidney Daily News in Sidney, Ohio. Gawlowski has interned at The Lima News in Lima, Ohio, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Navidi is a photographer for RIT Sports Information and was a photographer for the National Animal Rights Conference in Washington, D.C. in 2002.
39 students from 15 universities 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.
The judging was done at Syracuse University on Feb. 15, 2003. Judges were: Bob Gilka, former National Geographic director of photography and adjunct professor of photojournalism and picture editing at Syracuse University; Kevin Gilbert, president and managing partner of Blue Pixel Digital Experts; and Clem Murray, director of photography at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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