Our judge for the April
competition is Frank Van Riper. As many of you may
recall, he is a Washington-based photographer, journalist
and author. He served for 20 years in the New
York Daily News Washington Bureau as White House
correspondent, national political correspondent and
Washington bureau news editor, and was a 1979 Nieman
Fellow at Harvard. Among others, he is the author
of the biography Glenn: The Astronaut Who
Would Be President, as well as the photography
books: Faces of the Eastern Shore and Down East
Maine/ A World Apart. His book Talking Photography
is a collection of his Washington Post and other photography
writing over the past decade.
Frank teaches several Photo Classes and Field Trips
at Glen Echo Park Photo Works, including, Master
Class with Dr. Flash (Thursday evening April 3-May 1,
7-10:30pm), Basic Flash Workshop (Thursday evening,
May 15-June 5, 7-10:30pm), as well as Field
Trips to National Gallery East Wing, (Sunday, April
27th, 10:30am-4pm) and a Field Trip, National Building
Museum, (Sunday, May 18th , 10:30am-4pm)
His photography is in the permanent collections of the
National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of
American Art in Washington, and the Portland Museum,
Portland, Maine. He can be reached through
his website www.GVRphoto.com