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Annual Dith Pran Photography and Multimedia ShootOut Winners

August 15, 2009

List of winners in the Annual Dith Pran Photography and Multimedia ShootOut Competition. The theme of this year's live photography competition was "The Freedom Trail." All conventioneers were eligible to shoot between Wednesday through Friday during the convention. Over $2,000 in prizes were awarded.

The competition is in honor of New York Times photographer Dith Pran, who survived the Cambodian "Killing Fields." The perpetual trophy and cash award will given out during the Gala Banquet on Saturday night.

Photography Winners:

  • First place: Kelvin Ma, freelancer, "Free Hug" wins a ThinkTankPhoto bag and $200 in cash from AAJA National Office and perpetual trophy and SanDisk. (value: $650)
  • Second place: An Rong Xu, School of Visual Arts, "Sailor Portrait," wins a ThinkTankPhoto camera bag and SanDisk card. (value: $450)
  • Third place: Diana Diroy, San Jose State University, "Cemetery," wins Olympus audio recorder and Sandisk card. (value: $450)
  • Fourth place: Karen Zhou, freelance, "Military Dog Tags," wins ThinkTankPhoto camera bag and SanDisk card. (value $200)
  • Fifth place: Sihang Chang, students, "Bookstore," wins ThinkTankPhoto camera bag and Sandisk card. (value $200)
  • Sixth place: Hannah Lao, students, "Frog Pond," wins Sandisk card. (value $50)

Multimedia Winners:

  • First place: Derek Sijder, San Jose State University, "Boston Globe Pressman," wins Thinktankphoto camera carrying cases and SanDisk card. (value $400)
  • Second place: Derek Liu, UCLA, "Midnight Bakery," wins a ThinkTankPhoto camera bag, wins Sandisk card. (value: $300)
  • Third place: Greg Yamamoto, Honolulu Advertiser, "Bar Owner," ThinkTankphoto camera bag and SanDisk card (value $250)

Photo judges:

  • Matt Lee, Boston Globe
  • Dai Sugano, San Jose Mercury News
  • Chris Prevolos, Stamford Advocate
  • Bernardette Tuazon, Associated Press
  • Marilynn Yee, New York Times

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