SUNY Brockport photographer
named photographer of the year

Jim Dusen, manager of photographic services at SUNY College at Brockport, received multiple awards at the 41st Annual Technical Symposium of the University Photographers' Association of America (UPAA). Held at Kent State University (Ohio), June 24-28, Dusen was named UPAA University 2002 Photographer of the Year and received the First Place Award in the Publications Competition/General Publications Group for three SUNY Brockport publications, "Imagine the Possibilities," "Visit at SUNY Brockport" and "Focus on Brockport."

In the Print Competition's Personal Vision category, Dusen's photograph of Arches National Park, a hand-colored black-and-white print, received an Honorable Mention.

In the Publications Competition's People and Portraits category, he brought home First Place for a location photo for SUNY Brockport's Assistant Professor of Dance Wallie Wolfgruber's dance concert program. In the same category he also received the Second Place Award for a studio photo for SUNY Brockport's Sankofa African Dance and Drumming Ensemble's dance concert program.

During the symposium, Dusen also served as a judge for one of two Kodak/Nikon-sponsored slide shoot competitions held in Cleveland, Ohio. From all the attending UPAA photographers' self-portraits, shot during the symposium, Nick Romanenko of Rutgers University brought home the grand prize of a Nikon Coolpix 885 digital camera.

A member of the SUNY Brockport Design and Production Department for 23 years, Dusen believes the best part of his job is the variety of people he gets to work with at the college. His main responsibility is taking pictures for campus publications for use in recruitment and college advancement.