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(announced October 15, 2001)
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First Place - Park Second Place - Terry Cervi Third Place - Caldwell
Honorable Mention - McCallum |
 "Title Unknown" Park |
 "Morning Tulip" Terry Cervi |
 "Title Unknown" Caldwell |
 Honorable Mention "Title Unknown" McCallum
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 Honorable Mention "Title Unknown" Depka
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 Honorable Mention "Sunflower Seeds" Janet Pederson
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After two years of studying pre-medicine at
Pepperdine University in Malibu, Judy Walgren, 38,
transferred to the University of Texas in Austin,
where she graduated with a degree in Journalism.
After completing two internships, she took her
first job in Odessa, Texas, with the Odessa
American in 1987. Three months later, the Dallas
Morning News hired her, where she worked until
March 1999.
Judy was part of a team of journalists for the
Morning News that received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize
for International Reporting for their series on
violent human rights abuses against women all over
the world, including the United States. She
photographed women living in Islamic countries and
was the first person to photograph a female genital
mutilation ceremony in Somalia. She also covered
wars and famines in the Horn of Africa and her book
about children and war in Southern Sudan was
published in September 1998 by Houghton-Mifflin.
Among her other achievements are an Award of
Excellence from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation,
The Harry Chapin World Hunger Award, The Barbara
Jordan Award for reporting on people with
disabilities, several Dallas Press Club awards, the
APME Photojournalism Award and the AMPE Sweepstakes
Award for her series dealing with immigrants and
refugees in Dallas, the Headliners Award for her
work in Southern Sudan and the Texas Council
Against Violence Award for her work with abused
women.
As a freelance photographer, Judy works for
magazines such as Texas Monthly, People Magazine,
and Outside and has traveled the world shooting
promotional photos for the Peace Corps' new
recruiting campaign. She is shooting chapters for a
book about America by Peter Jennings, a chapter for
a book on child labor that will take her to Nepal
and India to shoot child prostitution trafficking
and is shooting a cookbook for renowned chef Chris
Ward.
Judy lives in Taos, New Mexico
e-mail: Judy Walgren
Note: The full text of the judge's comments is located at the bottom of the page.
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First Place - Park
Comments: Unknown
Second Place - Terry Cervi
Comments: Macro photography is so enjoyable to me. It opens a whole new world to us, enabling us to see things we might never experience with just the naked eye.
Third Place - Caldwell
Comments: Unknown
Honorable Mention - McCallum
Comments: Unknown
Honorable Mention - Depka
Comments: Unknown
Honorable Mention - Janet Pederson
Comments: This was a huge sunflower with so many seeds I found it amazing.
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What a great collection of nature photographs to
look through. I was highly impressed with the
quality and quantity of the images presented. I
chose the plant coming up from the snow as first
place because of composition, lens choice and mood.
It evokes a such strong feeling of renewal, of the
coming of Spring, something we need so desperately
here in the United States given the disasters in
New York and Washington D.C. The second place
photograph is absolutely beautiful and has a
luminescent quality to the print. Third place is
such a great moment. It reminds me of moments I
used to wait for hours to capture when working as a
photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News.
Having been on many safaris, I know how difficult
it is to get such great images like this one. The
honorable mentions are also worthy of places, but
there were not enough!!! I love the rainbow shot
over the mountains and the one that ends in the
bay. The tight shot of the flower is also so
amazing and takes the viewer somewhere he/she would
normally not go. Well done, everyone.
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