Meet our 2011 Judges  

Doral Chenoweth III, joined the Columbus Dispatch
in 1990 as a staff photographer. His photojournalism work has covered several social issues including the mortgage crisis, the stress of euthanizing cats on humane shelter workers, and the lack of affordable housing for low-income people. In 2009 he became a videographer for www.dispatch.com, the newspaper’s website. In January 2011 he produced a video about Ted Williams, a homeless man with a golden radio voice. The viral video has been viewed more than 40 million times.

His photography has appeared in the New York Times, The (London) Daily Mail, TIME magazine, USA Today, and National Geographic. Book credits include America 24/7, Ohio 24/7, The National Press Photographer’s Association Best of Photojournalism, and a book celebrating Habitat For Humanity’s 25th anniversary.

Doral is an adjunct instructor of photojournalism at Columbus State Community College.

He and his wife Robin live in an old part of Columbus called Clintonville with their children, Cassandra, 12, and Kurtis, 10.

 
Greg Grupenhof has owned and operated FreeStyle Design, Inc. - a Cincinnati-based Graphic Design/Photography Studio - for the past 19 years.

With a degree in Commercial Art from Central Academy of Commercial Art, and with his wide ranging background in photography, advertising and art direction, Greg's experience enables him to value photography as both a technical and creative undertaking, and he understands the attributes that make a photograph effective and marketable.

Greg’s published images and designs have appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, calendars, websites and books worldwide. For more information, visit his website: www.freestyle-design.com years.

Larry Hamel-Lambert is an associate professor
in the School of Visual Communication where he teaches courses in commercial photography including still life, architecture and portraiture. Prior to Ohio University he worked for 25 years as a photojournalist and picture editor at various news organizations including The Providence (RI) Journal, The Washington (DC) Times, The Cincinnati Post, USA Today, The Associated Press Washington DC bureau and the The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. He has been a frequent contributor to Ohio Magazine.

Architectural photography and documentation of health and wellness issues in Appalachia are Larry’s current areas of interest for creative activity. He is currently working on a book of large-format architectural photographs of country churches in Ohio, and is working on a grant project involving cancer survivorship. 

Marcy Nighswander has been teaching photojournalism at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication since 1995. Various types of photography are of interest to Marcy. She has travelled to photograph many national and state parks and is an avid outdoor photographer.

Prior to teaching at Ohio she was a staff photographer at the Associated Press Washington, D.C. bureau for seven years. While there she was one of a group of Associated Press photographers that won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for their coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign.

Marcy is a graduate of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her first job was as the only photographer at The Review Times in Fostoria, Ohio. In 1977 she was named the Ohio News Photographer of the Year, the first woman so honored. She has also worked for ten years on the photo staff of The Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, and for three years at The Cincinnati Post.

She has traveled to over thirty countries while covering the White House during the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.  Her work has been published in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and books, including four volumes of National Press Photographers Association’s annuals, The Best of Photojournalism.

Mike Tuziw's love affair with photography began at
a very early age when his parents provided him with his first camera, his mother’s old Brownie.  From then on, Mike was hooked.  At every opportunity – family trips, holidays, visits to relatives – he was taking pictures.

For high school graduation, Mike’s parents gave him a black and white darkroom which he still has today.  During his senior year in high school, he began a formal study of photography.  Unfortunately, as he got older, other obligations and priorities took precedence and he slowly drifted away from photography.  However, Mike never lost his love for the art and several years ago began seriously pursuing his craft again. 

Mike considers himself lucky enough to be able to combine his love for the outdoors, nature, and travel with his love of photography. He travels the world in pursuit of nature’s many wild places, capturing the hidden art of the landscapes, animals and people.  His goal is to create an image that is mood evoking, inspirational, and creates that sense of joy and wonderment he felt when he first discovered it.  Please visit Mike on the internet at:  www.aipics.com