Photojournalism professor John Freeman and student Chen Wang, a senior, have won international awards in the 2009 Photo Imaging Educations Association contest. There were 6,080 entries from 1,334 entrants, 114 schools and 10 countries.

Freeman won third place faculty single in the educators division and Wang was awarded honorable mention in the university students category. The contest offers more than $160,689 in prizes donated by sponsors. PIEA is a special membership section of Photo Marketing Association, the world's largest photo industry organization.

Both photographs will be exhibited at the PMA Imaging 2009 Convention in Las Vegas this March, and will then tour major conventions, schools, colleges and museums for three years in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada.

Judges included Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Leeson, formerly of the Dallas Morning News, and writer and critic Vicki Goldberg, whose articles have appeared regularly in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian and American Photo magazines.

Freeman’s photo, “Urban Landscape,” was taken during his May 2008 study-abroad course in Berlin, Germany. It shows a modern apartment building overlooking the solemn “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.” Wang’s photograph, “The Nature of Florida,” features a palm tree framed by sections of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

Posted: February 10, 2009
Category: College News
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