Results from the 2012 Q1 Wedding Photography Competitions and Awards.
2012 Q1 Contest
Award Winning Photographers from this Contest
- Pedro Damian Arevalo
- Hooman Bahrani
- Stephen Bobb
- Marcin Bobowski
- Franck Boutonnet
- Brett Butterstein
- Dominique Cabrelli
- Brian Callaway
- Julien Clavier
- Rino Cordella
- Andrea Corsi
- David Crane
- Dean Dampney
- Francesco De Tito
- Braulio Delai
- Barbara Di Cretico
- Marco Ficili
- Robert Fojtik
- Christian Fossati
- Tatiana Garanina
- Eduard Gebel
- John Hudetz
- Ernst Jacobsen
- Artur Jakutsevich
- Bartosz Jastal
- Arek Kadzielawski
- Sunny Kalsi
- Elise Kapeller
- Nick Kirk
- Christian Koester
- Peter Kos
- Alexey Kudrik
- Radmila Ladyzhinskaya
- Brian Lam
- Victor Lax
- Jessie Li
- Emily Liang
- Steffen Löffler
- Stephen Loh
- Siang Loo
- ChuianFeng Lui
- Nikolaj Lund
- Shane Macomber
- Victor Marti
- Steve Matteo
- Carol Mattos
- Mary Kate McKenna
- Franco Milani
- Julien Monfajon
- John Nassari
- Gerhard Nel
- Konrad Obidzinski
- Fabio Oliveira
- Derrick Ong
- Cleber Oshiro
- Cristiano Ostinelli
- Cengiz Ozelsel
- Kenny Pang
- Elias Papadopoulos
- Max Pell
- Christobal Perez
- Alejo Pesce
- John Pesina
- Enzo Picardi
- Andreas Pollok
- Francesco Portelli
- Marino Prieto
- David Pullum
- Enrico Radloff
- Adam Riley
- Kathi Robertson
- Paul Rogers
- Juan Pablo Romero
- Benjamin Rusnak
- João Salamonde
- Marco Schwarz
- Yu Hsin Seah
- Stephanie Secrest
- Stefan Segers
- Gustavo Semeghini
- Stefano Serra
- Mahesh Shantaram
- Inbal Sivan
- Francesco Sonetti
- Gai Songphon
- Daniel Stark
- Adena Stevens
- Jessica Stout
- Patricia Takacs
- Bestian Tan
- Lun Tang
- Philip Thomas
- Preston Utley
- Tanarak Visessonchoke
- Shira Weinberger
- Juliana Wiklund
- Amber Wilkie
- Leon Wong
Contest Judges
WPJA Judge since 2005 - Barry Chin has been a staff photographer at the Boston Globe since 1987. Prior to working at the Globe he was a staff photographer for the Boston Herald. Barry has covered the 1992, 2002 and 2004 Olympic games.Read more
WPJA Judge from 2007 - 2022 - (October 18, 1957 – April 16, 2022) - Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was a Dallas-based photojournalist and visual artist, freelancing in still and video photography. He worked as a newspaper photographer from 1977 to 2008. Leeson was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times prior to winning the award in 2004 for photographs made for The Dallas... Read more
Discovered by the music industry while he was a student at Art Center College of Design, Glen Wexler created hundreds of album covers before turning 30, working with artists ranging from Michael Jackson to Van Halen. Legendary ad man, Ed McCabe, brought him into the world of advertising for the reboot of the iconic Maxell campaign in the early 90s. Since then, Glen has worked on countless... Read more
WPJA Judge since 2006 - Susan Walsh has worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press since 1991. Walsh started in the Boston bureau but transferred to Washington in 1997 and traded in covering traditional sports for the sport of politics. In 1999, Walsh was part of the Associated Press team to win the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a collection of photographs of the key... Read more
WPJA Judge since 2006 - Torsten Kjellstrand is a staff photojournalist at The Oregonian. He previously worked as a staff photojournalist at The Herald in Jasper, Indiana and at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. In 1995, he was named POY Newspaper Photographer of the Year. He was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 2003-4. Torsten graduated from Carleton College with an... Read more
WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.
