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Lynn Johnson: Judge
Freelance photographer Photojournalist Lynn Johnson is known for her intense and sensitive work. She divides her time between assignments for National Geographic and Sports Illustrated, where she is a Staff Photographer. Over the course of her career she has been honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Coverage of the Disadvantaged and numerous World Press Awards and Pictures of the Year Awards: the most recent of which was awarded in the 2002 Issues Reporting category for her story "Weapons of Mass Destruction." She earned a B.A. in Photographic Illustration and Photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975. After graduating, she was a Staff Photographer at The Pittsburgh Press for seven years before beginning her freelance career as a contract photographer for Black Star. She is currently a member of Aurora Picture Agency. Johnson was recently a Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communications at Ohio University, where she completed a rigorous year-long program concluding with her masters thesis - a forthcoming book about the impact of hate crimes on American society, Hate Kills.
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