SCNPA 2009 PICTURES OF THE YEAR WINNERS
Hi All,
Congratulations to all the winners and a big thanks to our judges, Stacy Pearsall, Christopher Record and Michael Holahan. Thanks to everyone that attended and helped out. You can scroll through all the images from left to right. Some stories are out of order but they all have a title that tells you where they placed. See you next year.
SPOT NEWS
1st - “CHURCH FIRE” – SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
2nd - “FLIPPED SUV”- NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
3rd – “COLD FOOD”- KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
HM – “PILEUP”- WADE SPEES/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.
HM – “DEALING WITH THE DAMAGE” – GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.
GENERAL NEWS
1ST – “UNTITLED” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
2ND – “ILLEGAL” - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
3RD - “RETURN HOME” – - NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
HM - “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.
HM – “UNTITLED” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
FEATURE
1ST – “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.
2ND - “FULL”- GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.
3RD – “RACE THE TRAIN” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
HM – “THREE’S COMPANY” – NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL
HM – “UH OH” – KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
SPORTS ACTION
1ST - “UNTITLED” – TRAVIS BELL/SIDELINE CAROLINA.
2ND - “UNTITLED” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
3RD – “ZONE CONE” – KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
HM – “END OVER END” – BRIAN SCHNEIDER/CLEMSON UNIVERSITY.
HM – “DIVING CATCH” – NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
SPORTS FEATURE
1ST – “HAPPY GOLFERS” - KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
2ND – “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.
3RD – PLAYER’S DANCE” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
HM – “LONE WOLF” ANGELA KERSHNER/THE ISLAND PACKET.
HM – “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.
PORTRAIT
1ST – “MY BEST FRIEND” – GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.
2ND – “WAR HERO” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
3RD – “SARGE” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
HM – “JOY” – KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
HM – “SHELTERED TEARS” – KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
PICTORIAL
1ST –“OCEAN CURVES” - GRACE BEAHM/CHARLESTON POST & COURIER.
2ND – “SPINNING” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
3RD – “UNTITLED” - TRACY GLANTZ/THE STATE.
HM – “BALL TOSS” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
HM – “GRAND MOTEL” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
ILLUSTRATION
1ST – “OUCH” – KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN/THE STATE.
2ND – “STUCK” – KIM KIM FOSTER- TOBIN/THE STATE.
3RD – “RAILWAY” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
HM – “TAXING HABIT” – KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
HM – “ORGANIC EATS” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
PICTURE PACKAGE
1ST – “COWBOY ACTION” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE
2ND – “UNTITLED” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
3RD – “CHITLINS” - ANNE MCQUARY/FREELANCE.
HM – “UNTITLED” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
HM – “POLAR EXPRESS” – REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
NEWS PICTURE STORY
1ST – “CHURCH FIRE” – SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
2ND – “ATLANTIC BEACH CARRIES ON” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
3RD – “RECOVERY FROM THE APRIL WILDFIRES” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
HM – “LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS” – NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
HM – “THE YEAR OF THE RAIN” – NATHAN GRAY/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
FEATURE PICTURE STORY
1ST – “HOUSE CALLS” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
2ND – “DANI’S STORY” – RICH GLICKSTEIN/THE STATE.
3RD – “OLYMPIA” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
HM – “DOGGIE WEDDING” – ANNE MCQUARY/FREELANCE.
HM – “A MONTH OF MOTORCYCLES” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
SPORTS PICTURE STORY
1ST – “MASTERS” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
2ND – A BOXING STORY” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
3RD – “UNTITLED” – C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE.
HM – “DAVID VS. GOLIATH” – RICH GLICKSTEIN/THE STATE.
HM – “FIGHT NIGHT” – SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL.
MULTIMEDIA
1ST – “HOUSE CALLS” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THESTATE.
2ND – “A BOXING STORY” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE.
3RD – “FAST BUSBOY” – RANDALL HILL/THE SUN NEWS.
HM – “STATE CHAMPS” – TOM PRIDDY/SPARTANBURG HERALD-JOURNAL
HM – “BARBER” - REBECCA DUCKER/FLORENCE MORNING NEWS.
BEST IN SHOW
“HOUSE CALLS” – GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE
2009 PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE
2009 RUNNER UP PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
C. ALUKA BERRY/THE STATE
2009 SECOND RUNNER UP PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
SEFTON IPOCK/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL
CLIP CONTEST PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
KEN RUINARD/ANDERSON INDEPENDENT-MAIL
C. Aluka Berry named 2008 SCNPA POY
State photographer Chris Aluka Berry was named the 2008 South Carolina News Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year during The 60th annual Southern Short Course in News Photography seminar held in Charlotte, NC. Gerry Melendez of the State was runner-up and Alan Hawes, Charleston Post and Courier, took third place.
Ken Ruinard of the Anderson Independent-Mail was the SCNPA clip contest Photographer of the Year. Sefton Ipock, Anderson Independent-Mail was runner-up. Gerry Melendez, The State was third.
Berry also received Best in Show for his feature story on Wateree Correctional Institution inmate, Joshua Reynolds, titled “Second Chances.”
The State took Staff of the Year.
I also forgot to post the illustration winners. There where only two honorable mention awards in the category. Tim Dominick, The State for his “Connected” illustration and Rebecca J. Ducker, Florence Morning News for her ”religion in sports.”
Congratulations to all the winners! The judges had great things to say about the work. I hope to post the judges comments soon.
Gerry
Orphan Works 2008
On Friday, September 26, 2008, the United States Senate passed their version of the Orphan Works legislation by hotline. A hotline is an informal term for a request to members of the Senate to agree to allow a bill or resolution to be approved by the Senate without debate or amendment (for more information on hotline process read this article by Sen. Tom Colburn).
Currently the House version of The Orphan Works Act of 2008 bill, H.R. 5889, is in the House Judiciary Committee, and while it is not as damaging as the Senate version S.2913, either version of the bill would cause catastrophic harm to creative communities which depend on protections of their intellectual property, provided under current Copyright law.
According to the Orphan Works Act of 2008, an “orphan work” is defined as any copyrighted work whose author is unable to be located by an infringer who claims they have performed a “reasonably diligent search” (however it in no way gives any parameters as to what a reasonably diligent search is. In a departure from existing copyright law and business practice, the U.S. Copyright Office has proposed that Congress grant such infringers freedom to ignore the rights of the author and use the work for any purpose, including commercial usage.
This proposal goes far beyond current concepts of fair use. It is written so broadly that it will expose new works to infringement, even where the author is alive, in business, and licensing the work. The bill would substantially limit the copyright holder’s ability to recover financially or protect the work, even if the work was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office prior to infringement. The bill also has a disproportionate impact on visual artists such as photographers, because it is common for an artist’s, work to be published without credit lines or because credit lines can be removed electronically removed by others in our current, electronic age, where many of these images wind up on the internet.
The Orphan Works Act would force artists to risk their lives’ work to subsidize the start-up ventures of private, profit making registries, using untested image recognition technology and untried business models. These models would inevitably favor the aggregation of images into corporate databases over the licensing of copyrights by the lone artists who create the art. The most common scenario of orphaning in visual art is the unmarked image. There is only one way to identify the artist belonging to an unmarked image. That would be to match the art against an image-recognition database where the art resides with intact authorship information. These databases would become one-stop shopping centers for infringers to search for royalty-free art. Any images not found in the registries could be considered orphans. There is no limit to the number of these registries nor the prices they would charge artists for the coerced registration of their work.
In the end, the artist would bear the financial burden of paying for digitizing and depositing the digitized copy with the commercial registries. Almost all visual artists such as painters, illustrators and photographers are self employed. The number of works created by the average visual artist far exceeds the volume of the most prolific creators of literary, musical and cinematographic works. The cost and time-consumption to individual artists of registering tens of thousands of visual works, at even a low fee, would be prohibitive; therefore countless working artists would find existing works orphaned from the moment they create them. The Copyright Office has stated explicitly that failure of the artist to meet this burden of registration would result in their work automatically becoming an orphan and subject to legal infringement.
I don’t feel that there are words strong enough to tell you how important it is to personally contact your Representative in the United States House, and ask them to stand against this piece of legislation. However if you don’t have enough time to call or write them personally please visithttp://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/alert/?alertid=11980321 or http://www.petitiononline.com/Stop2913/petition.html or http://www.house.gov/.
If you would like to find out more information please visit http://owoh.org/.
End of an Era
Former State Newspaper photographers Maxie Roberts, left, and Bud Shealy, right, watch a farewell video in the lobby of The State Newspaper offices, Saturday, July 12, 2008.
On Saturday, July 12, 2008, many of those who have at one time or currently do, roam the streets of Columbia, S.C., with cameras dangling from their shoulders, came together to celebrate the long and storied photojournalism career of, Maxie Roberts (also a long time SCNPA member) as he retired from The State after 44 years of service. State Newspaper, Executive Editor, Mark Lett, pointed out to the crowd gathered on Saturday afternoon, that to his knowledge Maxie Roberts is only the second known person to retire from the photography department of The State (to which Tim Dominick quickly replied “I’m working on it”.) Capping off the afternoon of good food, friends, and fun stories, current SCNPA President, Gerry Melendez, awarded Roberts a lifetime membership to the SCNPA. From all of us who have had the opportunity to know and work with Maxie over the past 44 years we wish you a very happy retirement
I’m SCNPA and so can you!
Over the years, SCNPA has become one of the most valuable organizations that I’m a part of.
You’ve probably already heard a coach, professor or parent tell you “You’ll only get out what you put into it” and SCNPA is the same way. Our organization depends on each and every member to contribute their unique skills to help keep the it alive and running.
With all of the talk about what I call “newsdoom” it’s hard not to put things like our group on the back burner, but I’m making a plea that everyone takes a more active roll in our group and in their newsroomIt doesn’t matter if you’re a staff of one, or a staff of 12, there’s no reason why every photojournalist in S.C. isn’t a member of our organization. It’s times like these that we need each other more than ever.
The walls surrounding the newspaper industry might be crumbling (literally) but it’s time that we continue building and strengthening the walls of our organization. We need to continue to foster great documentary images and welcome newcomers from other papers and help them reach their full potential.
Do you remember when you were first starting out as a photojournalist at a newspaper? How great would it have been to have someone from a professional organization reach out and offer to help you out and get your feet wet?
Welcome and Congrats!
Congratulations to everyone on a successful 2007!
There are many things to get excited about as an SCNPA member for 2008.
For one, the 2009 conference will be held in Charlotte in conjunction with the Southern Short Course in News Photography. Details will be ironed out throughout the year so stay tuned.
The Southern Short Course is America’s longest-running photojournalism seminar. To celebrate its 60th anniversary SCNPA and NCPPA (the other Carolina) havebeen invited to participate and as of now, will be sharing judges with the short course for their respective contests.