Honorable Mention, Photographer of the Year 2009 – Beth Schlanker
Dressed as Michael Jackson, English teacher Sharman Tueller, practices her moves backstage, before performing to the song “Beat It” during the “Stop Violence with Helping Hands” special assembly at Mt. Ogden Middle School in Ogden, Utah on Friday, April 18, 2008.
Judge: Ruth Fremson, New York Times, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
1. Patriarchal Blessing, Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune
2. Guilty Verdict, Chuck Wing, Deseret News
3. Busted, Brent Stevens, Logan Herald-Journal
4. Enlisted, Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune
First Place – Tom Smart/Deseret Morning News
Raul Corado kisses his grand daughter Lauren Herrera goodbye as Magda Corado
waves goodbye to her son Juan (who has just been diagnosed with cancer) and
daughter, [...]
First: Steve Griffin 07, – Olympic torch at Arches National Park. “It seems that the photographer took a chance on dramatic framing and lighting to make a different picture and it paid off.”
Second: Chuck Wing 13, – election eve celebration. “A well-composed, solid news picture,
with all the multi-layered elements working together.”
First Place, Photographer of the Year 2009 – Ramin Rahimian
Outside the Democratic National Convention, members of Iraq War Veterans Against the War line up and raise their arms in an emotional farewell and thanks directed to a crowd who had been marching and protesting alongside them all day in Denver, Colorado, on [...]