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Our Judging staff for the 2007 Competition:
Wayne Levin
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 Wayne has spent a career photographing the eerie and
mysterious underwater world. Working in black and white, he
removes the surface illusions about the ocean and the
assumptions about underwater photography. Levin earned his
B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and his M.F.A.
from Pratt Institute in New York. His monograph, Through a
Liquid Mirror (Editions Limited, 1998), received the Hawaii
Book Publishers Association's award for Book of the Year.
Levin received the Photographer's Fellowships from the Ohio
Arts Council (1989); the National Endowment for the Arts
(1984); and a Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the
Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship (2006). His photographs
are widely exhibited and are in major public collections
including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bishop
Museum, Honolulu; and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture
and the Arts.
http://www.waynelevinimages.com/
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Doug Perrine
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| Photo by Brandon Cole |
- Doug Perrine is widely regarded as one of the world's
foremost marine wildlife photographers. His photographs have
been reproduced in virtually every major nature magazine in
the world, as well as in thousands of books, calendars,
greeting cards, posters, etc., including more than 100
covers. His photography has won a number of awards,
including overall winner in the prestigious BBC Wildlife
Photographer of the Year competition and the Nature's Best/
Cemex competition in the Professional Marine Wildlife
category. He is also the author of seven books on marine
life, and numerous magazine articles. He founded the stock
photo agency, SeaPics.com, which he sold in 2003 to
concentrate on his own photography. Originally hailing from
Dallas, Texas, Doug was educated at the University of Hawaii
and the University of Miami, earning bachelor's and master's
degrees in marine biology. He has lived in Morocco and
Micronesia (as a Peace Corps volunteer) and the Cayman
Islands (as a dive guide/ instructor). Since finishing
graduate school in 1986, he has been self-employed as a
naturalist/ photojournalist. He also works occasionally as a
consultant for filming projects, including jobs for National
Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel, and other
broadcasters.
Jim Watt
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D. Watt has established himself as one of the worlds leading
marine wildlife photographers. With diving experience
spanning 32 years as a commercial diver, charter captain and
photographer. His credit list is long, having been published
in over 700 books and magazines. He has traveled the world
over seeking out photographic subjects. From Right Whales in
Patagonia to Great White Sharks in the Australia's Southern
ocean. His marine art prints are displayed in many marine
museums and some 1,500,000 homes worldwide James is
dedicated to the celebration and preservation of life on
earth and within it's seas. He lives on the Kona Coast of
the big island of Hawaii.
List of Past years Competition
Judges.
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