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MNPA Convention 2012 Schedule
Once again our lovely hosts, University of Minnesota, will let us use Murphy Hall to hold this year’s convention Saturday, April 28th. Just like last year we’re having speakers, a showing of the winners, and a crowing of the CPOY and POY. The daily fee for non-members is $20 for adults and $5 for students. Please join us for what should be a fun time.
11:00am Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber
http://ackermangruber.com/
Tim and Jenn are a husband and wife team based in Minneapolis, MN. The two take an authentic approach to their work and specialize in providing genuine images of real people to advertising, corporate and editorial clients. They pride themselves in creating a narrative in every photo they take whether it’s a single image or a series of photos.
Their work has been honored by the Communication Arts Photography Annual, PDN Photo Annual, Review Santa Fe Center Project Competition, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, and many others. Their most recent documentary won an Emmy.
12:30 pm Wing Young Huie
http://www.wingyounghuie.com/
Photographer Wing Young Huie earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Minnesota in 1979. Huie became a full time professional photographer in 1989 and is most well-known for his photographs documenting people in a culturally diverse and changing urban landscape. Several of his projects focus on Minneapolis and St. Paul neighborhoods.
Wing Young Huie is the recipient of several fellowships, grants, and awards including the Minnesota Historical Society Research Grant (1993); Rivers Merging, Asian American Renaissance, Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (1994); Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Collaborations Grant (1994, 1998); McKnight Photography Fellowship (1994, 1999); Bush Artist Fellowship (1996); Minnesota 2000 Photo Documentary Project (1997); Forecast Exhibition Grant (1994, 1999); Star Tribune “Artist of the Year” (2000); Committee on Urban Environment Award (2000); US Bank Sally Irvine Ordway Vision Award (2001); St. Paul Companies Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods (LIN) Award (2001); City Pages Best Book by a Local Author (2002); and the Emerging Leaders Spotlight Award from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (2006).
2:00 pm: Todd Heisler
http://toddheisler.com/
While chronicling the lives of families of Marines killed in Iraq, he slept in mortuaries and stood on airport tarmacs as bodies returned home. He spent time in barracks and backyards, in cemeteries and bedrooms. The images earned him the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography at the Rocky Mountain News, Photographs from ‘Final Salute’.
Mr. Heisler also won a Pulitzer prize in 2003 as a member of the Rocky Mountain News team’s coverage of wildfires in Colorado. His photos have also received top honors from the 2006 World Press Photo Contest, Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s best of Photojournalism, The American Society of New Editors and at Visa Pour l’image.
A Chicago native, Mr. Heisler spent the early part of his career working for small newpapers in the Chicago suburbs. He is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University.
3:30 pm: The winners show
MNPA News
Hello to the Photo Faithful,
Yes the MNPA is alive and well and preparing for this year’s contest. I hope all of you are well and have had a fabulous year.
This year’s deadline is Sunday, March 18th at midnight. The contest will work just like last year’s. CPOY will be judged by local photographers. The first place entries from the college contest will be entered in the pros. The professional contest will be sent to another newspaper where it will be judged.
The next important date Saturday, April 28th is the convention day. This year we will have enough money to fly a speaker in. If you have any suggestions please let me know. If there is anyone in Minnesota you’d like to hear speak let me know that too. The plan is to have one speaker fly in and maybe one local one and then a showing on the winners.
Once we have judges and speakers in place I will let everyone know.
Take care everyone!
Kyndell Harkness