White House News Photographers Association, Washington, DC 
Still Contest Judges Announced
Still Photography JUDGING
Chip Somodevilla, chair, Getty Images
Paul Moakley, Deputy Photo Editor of Time Magazine
Paul Moakley has been the deputy photo editor of TIME since 2010. He covers national news and special projects such as Person of the Year. Previously he was senior photo editor at Newsweek and photo editor of PDN (Photo District News). Moakley is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as a photographer and filmmaker. He lives at the Alice Austen House Museum, home of one of America’s earliest photographers, as caretaker and curator of the museum. Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/author/moakley76/#ixzz2JJlBNuDk
Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, Denver Post staff photojournalist Craig F. Walker has covered some of the most important threads of the terror attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., fixing a compassionate lens on the men, women and children tangled then, and now, in the continuing story of geopolitical conflict. He chronicled the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York, the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002, the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in 2001, and the deployment of American troops in Kuwait in 2003, and in Iraq in 2005 and 2009. In 2009, his photo essay “Ian Fisher: American Soldier” won the grand prize in Editor & Publisher’s Photos of the Year competition. His honors also include a first-place National Headliners Award in 2002 for a portfolio of work. Walker was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photographer in 2010 as well as the American Society of News Editor Community Photojournalism award, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation prize for Photojournalism and third place Photographer of the Year from the Pictures of the Year International competition. Walker came to the Post in 1998 from the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass., where, he chronicled the final six months in the life of a woman with AIDS. He began his career in Massachusetts, at the Marlborough Enterprise. READ MORE: http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2012-Feature-Photography
Lois Raimondo, University of Missouri-Columbia) Assistant Professor, Shott Chair of Journalism
Lois Raimondo, the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism’s Shott Chair of Journalism, is an international award-winning journalist. Before joining the School of Journalism faculty, Raimondo most recently worked as a staff photographer at The Washington Post. Prior to her 10 years at the Post, she worked as a freelance photographer and writer and spent four years as chief photographer for The Associated Press bureau in Hanoi, Vietnam. Raimondo’s work has appeared in such publications as National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek and Time. Raimondo’s journalism, both pictures and words, has received national and international recognition. In 2005, Raimondo was awarded the Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to report on the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan. She spent the year working in Baluchistan and Waziristan. Raimondo was also awarded the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 2002 for her front-line reporting from the war in Afghanistan. The award committee cited both her photographic and written reports from the field. In 1998, Raimondo was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a New York Newsday series on corruption in the Mitchell Lama Housing Projects. Her photographic work has also received White House News Photographers Association awards, National Press Photographers Association awards and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Raimondo, a native of Rocky Point, N.Y., began her journalism career in 1982 as a sound technician, producer and interpreter for CBS News in Beijing, China. She holds two master’s degrees, one in news-editorial from the University of Missouri-Columbia and one in comparative literature (Chinese and Japanese) from Indiana University. READ MORE: http://journalism.wvu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/lois_raimondo
