2010 NCPPA
Annual Meeting and Pictures of the Year
Hilton Charlotte Center City - Charlotte North Carolina
February 5th-8th, 2010
The 60th annual (2009) Southern Short Course in News Photography will he held in Charlotte, NC in conjunction with the North Carolina Press Photographers Association and South Carolina News Photographers Association.
Visit the website for more info: www.southernshortcourse.com

Location: Hilton Charlotte Center City
222 East Third Street
Charlotte, NC

Faculty includes:
Emcee Michael Williamson of the Washinton Post
Preston Gannaway of the Rocky Mountain News
James Gregg of the Arizona Daily Star
Bill Bangham of the International Missions Board
Ross Taylor of the Hardford Courant
Barbara Marshall of Lamb & Braswell, LLC
Nicole Fruge of the San Antonio Express-News
Mark Gormus of the Richmond Times Dispatch

Special Guest: Gene Furr, SSC Lifetime Achievement winner

2010 NCPPA Annual Meeting and Pictures of the Year Hilton Charlotte Center City - Charlotte North Carolina February 5th-8th, 2010 The 60th annual (2009) Southern Short Course in News Photography will he held in Charlotte, NC in conjunction with the North Carolina Press Photographers Association and South Carolina News Photographers Association. Visit the website for more info: www.southernshortcourse.com Location: Hilton Charlotte Center City 222 East Third Street Charlotte, NC Faculty includes: Emcee Michael Williamson of the Washinton Post Preston Gannaway of the Rocky Mountain News James Gregg of the Arizona Daily Star Bill Bangham of the International Missions Board Ross Taylor of the Hardford Courant Barbara Marshall of Lamb & Braswell, LLC Nicole Fruge of the San Antonio Express-News Mark Gormus of the Richmond Times Dispatch Special Guest: Gene Furr, SSC Lifetime Achievement winner
NCPPA Schedule Wednesday, Feb 4st 8 p.m. -10 p.m.- Professional and Student Portfolio Judging. (Not open to public) John Simmons from the Charlotte Observer will be running the POY at the meeting. Thanks John! Thursday, Feb 5st 9a.m.-Complete. - Multimedia and Individual Categories Judging: 1st rounds open to public Friday, Feb 6th 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. NCPPA supports the Southern Short Course 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. NCPPA POY Awards Ceremony. 8 p.m. - Complete - Print Auction & Social in conjunction with the SSC If you have not sent in your print, you can bring it with you to the auction. We are looking for 11x14 unmounted images. This will be fun. Saturday, Feb 7 - 8th NCPPA Volunteers support SSC Schedule Print this Page
Meet the Judges
	Hank Wilson - is the Digital Media and Design Fellow within the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. Most recently, Hank was the Knight Digital Media Fellow in the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at The Ohio State University, where he produced a series of video stories and a Web site on the culture of "no snitching" in Newport News, Va. In a 32 year career Hank has been the assistant managing editor of the Roanoke Times in Virginia, deputy managing editor of Treasure Coast Newspapers in Florida, assistant managing editor of Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., design director of the Baltimore Evening Sun, photo editor of the Charlotte Observer, the Milwaukee Journal and the Arkansas Democrat as well as news art director of the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. He has won over 30 journalism awards from national and state news organizations including seven Society of News Design awards, Best in Show at the Atlanta Seminar on Photojournalism, three times was named Scripps Howard Designer of the Year and was the visual editor of the Charlotte Observer's Pulitzer winning series on televangelist Jim Bakker.
	Randy Piland - is in his fourth year teaching photojournalism and design classes at Elon University in North Carolina. With nearly 30 years as a photojournalist, Piland worked at The Tennessean, in Nashville, for 13 years, first as a picture editor and later as senior photographer. In 2003, he completed his undergraduate degree in Digital Media Communication at Middle Tennessee State University and earned a master’s in Visual Communications with a multimedia emphasis from Ohio University in 2005. Prior to Nashville, Piland worked as a picture editor, assistant chief photographer, and staff photographer at three newspapers in Georgia and Massachusetts. He paralleled eight of his newspaper years as an Army photojournalist while serving in an Army Reserves public affairs unit. During this time, he traveled with the Army on assignments both in the U. S. and abroad including his activation to Desert Storm during the first Gulf War. During his career, he has participated in numerous workshops including Visual Edge at the Poynter Institute, the first Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop, the first Multimedia Boot camp at the University of North Carolina, the Missouri Photo Workshop and several others. He has served on the multimedia staff at the past five Mountain Workshops and was a photo coach at the Eighth Electronic Photojournalism Workshop. Piland lives in Burlington, N.C., with his wife, Debbie, and their two children.
	Tami Chappell - Tami Chappell has been a contract photographer for Reuters News Pictures for seventeen years. Other clients include The Associated Press, L.A. Times, New York Times, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Her pictures have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and books around the world. Tami began her career as a photographer while attending The Art Institute of Atlanta. After graduation she worked at the Marietta Daily Journal where she won various state photo awards. She went freelance in 1989. She has been a guest lecturer at Gwinnett Technical Institute and The Art Institute of Atlanta. Tami has also participated in judging for the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Her newest endeavor is working on a series about Shelter Dogs. She lives in Atlanta with her dog, Traveler.