International Student Photography Competition

A new contest to enter for Third Floor students and readers of the blog



"An International Student Photography Competition continued . . .

Open to All Students of all ages working in all mediums of photography.

Juror Statement
"As a photojournalist/documentary photographer what interests me most about photography is its unique ability to freeze a moment in time and reveal something within that instance, be it a 500th or even two seconds. When you document humanity, that moment can unveil emotions that exist within all of us whether it be one of joy, sorrow, anxiety, anger, boredom, ecstasy, frustration, hope, loneliness, resentment, vulnerability and a whole hosts of others. That revelation has the potential to bind us forever to the people we’ve gotten to know within that one moment frozen in time."

About the Juror
Lucian Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in biology, later studying photography with Garry Winogrand and working on the student newspaper, The Daily Texan. In 1979 he received an internship at The Washington Post, where he worked as a staff photographer for 27 years. He received the "Newspaper Photographer of the Year" by the National Press Photographers Association in 1994 for a portfolio that included projects in Russia and a “behind-the-scenes” look at the New York fashion shows. In 1995 with Post reporter, Leon Dash, he won a Pulitzer Prize for their four-year study on the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C. family through the eyes of the family's matriarch, Rosa Lee Cunningham. In 1996 he was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year for his photograph of a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. In 2000 Perkins won another Pulitzer Prize along with two colleagues at the Post for their coverage of the Kosovo conflict.

While at the Post, Perkins covered major international events, including Russia since 1988, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also chronicled local and national events throughout the United States, and worked closely with the online version of the newspaper to produce many of their first multimedia, interactive projects such as the Siberia and Finland Diaries. In October 1998, Chronicle Books published his first book, Runway Madness, which accompanied a national touring exhibition.

Perkins also co-founded InterFoto, a non-profit that mounted an annual international photography conference in Moscow, Russia (1995-2005), and organized exchange programs, exhibitions, workshops and a “Russian Photography of the Year” contest. In 1996 and 1997 Perkins curated an exhibition of Russian photography “Russia: Chronicles of Change” that traveled to museums in the United States.

Perkins’ own work has been in a number of solo and group exhibitions at World Press, Amsterdam; the ART in Embassies Program in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Havana, Cuba, Tokyo, Japan, and Ankara, Turkey; the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; the Newseum, Washington, D.C, San Francisco, and New York; American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts; the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; and the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, among others.

Currently, Perkins is an independent photographer and videographer concentrating on multimedia projects and video documentaries while still pursuing his love for the still image. Over the years, Perkins has developed a preference for human interest stories, and is known for an approach that counterpoints a deep sympathy for his subjects with an ability to expose their hopes and foibles, and a style that combines formal clarity with an off-beat humor."



International Student Photography Competition