March 19, 2007
Bowling
Green, Ky. -Western Kentucky University’s award-winning photojournalism program added more honors in the 64th annual Pictures of the Year International Competition.
The Mountain Workshops, a weeklong documentary-style photojournalism and picture editing workshop that WKU has offered for more than 30 years, took third place for Best Use Interactive Publication/Small Media.
Assistant professor Jeanie Adams-Smith received an award of excellence in the Portrait category for “Kiss.”
WKU alumni Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times and Guy Wathen of the Tribune-Review in Greensburg, Pa., also were honored in the competition.
Loomis placed first in Science/Natural History Picture Story for “Altered Oceans”; first in Multiple Page Feature Story for “Altered Oceans”; second in Newspaper Series for “Altered Oceans”; second in Human Conflict Picture Story for “The Lifeline – A Journey Through Trauma in Iraq”; third for Multiple Page News Story for “The Lifeline”; and third in Newspaper Photographer of the Year.
Wathen received an award of excellence for General News Reporting for “Amish Tragedy.”
For more on the Pictures of the Year International competition, visit http://www.poyi.org/
For information, contact James Kenney at (270) 745-6307.
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