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Photo Contest Winners

2022 Qtr. 2 Photo Essay

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Doug Pizac, Quarter 2 Judge

First place

The somber mood of the photographs match the somberness of a young woman taking medication to abort her pregnancy, and her reaction afterwards. Very touching.

Second place

Again, somber reality sets in with the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade. The isolation of the situation is strongly shown in the photographs.

The other entries lacked the complex layers and issues that the category is defined as.


First Place: Gina Ferrazi, Los Angeles Times


Second Place: Gina Ferrazi, Los Angeles Times


Meet Our Judge, Doug Pizac

 
 

Doug Pizac began his career with four summer internships at National Geographic working his way up from the b/w and color labs through photography to becoming a picture editor and doing magazine layouts. He became the team photographer for the California Angels the day after graduating from Cal State Fullerton. This introduced him to AP and UPI where he worked for both of them as a freelancer, including a temp full-time job as an AP staffer.

After working a year at a paper in Owensboro, Kentucky shooting and doing layouts, he worked two years at the Tampa Tribune/Times doing the same before being recalled to Los Angeles for a 30+ year career at AP -- half in Los Angeles and half in Salt Lake City where his territory was from the Arizona border to Canada. While in Los Angeles he was given an outstanding dedication award by The Greater Los Angeles Press Club for his work during the 1992 riots.

Following AP he turned his attention to creating his own photography business and teaching college photo courses in SLC, and is now teaching communication classes part-time at the Vancouver campus of Washington State University. When not teaching or helping up and coming photographers, he has been judging AP-related state photo contests in the east for the past several years and spends his free time doing woodturning and woodworking projects in his Vancouver home workshop.

His wife is Betty Pizac who was a freelancer for AP and UPI in Seattle, and an AP-L.A. photo editor. They have two children.