Having professionnal photographers for the jury would be awesome. In France, we have a backclash between the chapter and the main photographers union/lobby that accuses us to "kill the job" with free (as in free beers) pictures. So really a good idea in the paper

However, having professionals in the jury might be hard for two reasons : we have to find someone who is willing to do his job for free (or to justify that we are paying for this) and professionnals might not work as quickly as volunteers (we were late on the schedule last year because we had a notorious, professional photographer who had other priorities thant WLM).

 I think it is important to also have voluntaries photographers from the Wikimedia movement (we have lot of good photographers on Wikimedia Commons), like the authors of featured pictures. It would be nice to ask them if they would be interested in joining the jury.

Caroline Becker
Wikimédia France


2012/6/12 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek@gmail.com>
2012/6/11 Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian@gmail.com>:
> 2012/6/11 Barbara Fischer <barbara.fischer@wikimedia.de>:
>> Last year when the contest was an European contest these were the members of
>> the jury, just to give You an idea where to look:
>>
>> Michael Bieodowicz, manging director images ZEIT Magazine
>> Sebastian ter Burg, C- BY-SA Photographer,
>> Tomasz GAnicz, president of Wikimedia Polska
>> José Gustavo Góngora, Wikipedian
>> Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, General Secretary of Europa Nostra
>

IMHO the problem with last year jury was bad propotions of
non-photographers vs photographers - so it was really hard to persuade
the jury to take into account basic technical requirements such as
minimum resolution or realism of colors and geometry of photographed
objects. My suggestion is to compose the jury from as many as possible
professional photographers. I think WLM is so global this year that we
could not have problems to ask really top world photographers. I think
we can learn from World Press Photo jury composition:

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/2012-photo-contest-jury




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Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
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http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz

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