2024 Annual Contest Winners
Video winners
Single Category Winners
Picture Story Winners
Photo Essay Winners
Photographer of the Year winner
Student Contest
Lifetime ACHIEVEMENT Honorees
Reed Saxon
Martin Orozco
HonoraRy Member
Dan Rothschild
On January 1, 1956, 5-year-old Dan Rothschild attended his first Rose Parade with the Press Photographers, following his father, Otto Rothschild, a former PPAGLA board member and treasurer. For the next 20 years, Dan handled mailing duties for the Press Photographers. In the early 1960s, he stopped following his father, who was then the photographer for the Hollywood Bowl, and joined the Bowl's staff, where he worked for 52 years. In 2002, while serving as Secretary on the PPAGLA board, Dan hosted meetings at a house on the Hollywood Bowl grounds. More recently, he curated the “Otto Rothschild Photography” exhibit at the Bowl Museum.
Photos: Dana Rene White
Judges
Kaitlyn Dolan is the Photo Operations Manager, working with the photo team to manage needs such as gear, freelance budgets, networking at live events, coverage for photo editing desks, and supporting photo management.
Annaliese Nurnberg is a photo editor for Features at The Washington Post. She focuses on Style, Weekend, Book World. Previously, she was also a photo editor with The Washington Post Magazine. Prior to joining Features, she worked on the National desk with Business, Technology and Health & Science. She joined The Post as an intern in 2017.
Monique Woo is a photo assignment editor based in San Francisco, covering business and technology. She has been at The Post since 2020 and previously worked on Travel, Gender & Identity and The Washington Post Magazine.
Jonathan Newton just completed his 37th season as a professional photographer. He joined the staff of The Washington Post in summer 2000 and took a buyout in 2023.
He started out at the Nashville Banner in 1986. After a little more than a year at the Banner, he moved to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he spent 10 years shooting assignments that included the Atlanta Braves. He joined the St. Petersburg Times in 1998 when the town landed an expansion baseball team.
A Louisville native and the youngest of eight children, Newton worked many jobs after high school, including apple picker in Canada, kitchen cleaner at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park, aluminum siding installer, liquor store clerk, pot washer at a Jewish deli, fish fryer, house painter and busboy. It was as a student at Jefferson Community College that he got his first taste of newspapers, shooting pictures for the weekly student publication. With $300 saved from his busboy job, he went to a downtown Louisville pawnshop and bought his first professional camera equipment.
Newton has covered almost every major sporting event in the world: the Olympics in 1996, 2008 and
2016; the Kirkwall Ba in Scotland, in 2007; five World Series; seven National League Championships; seven NCAA Final Fours; the Kentucky Derby; the Preakness; The Stanley Cup Championship; several heavyweight title bouts in Las Vegas; college football championships; the Super Bowl; and countless high school sporting events.
Newton's awards include the Morris Berman NPPA Citation; White House News Photographers Association awards; Baseball Hall of Fame photo contest; first place in the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors sports competition; and three-time Georgia Photographer of the Year.
He lives in Maryland.
Director of Photography for the Washington Post. Prior to being the DOP, Miller served as the as Deputy Director of Photography overseeing photography for National, International, Financial, Metro and the Investigative department. Miller began his career at The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C. where he worked as a staff photojournalist and rose to become the Director of Multimedia. He joined the Post in 2008.