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4-March-1998 
98079 
 
    Winners Announced in "Year With Latin Americans" 
    Photo Contest 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Tina Manley, a Presbyterian elder and professional 
photographer from Rock Hill, S.C., and Paul Dix, a freelance photographer 
from Livingston, Mont., have won top honors in a photography contest 
sponsored by the "Year with Latin Americans" program of the Presbyterian 
Church (U.S.A.). 
 
    Manley, an elder in the Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church in Rock 
Hill, won the top award in black-and-white photography for her photo of a 
Honduran family in the still moment of saying grace before a meal. 
 
    Dix, who worked for Witness for Peace in Nicaragua for many years, won 
first place in the color photography competition for his photo of the main 
thoroughfare of the village of Jicaro, Nicaragua, at sunset. 
 
    More than 200 persons submitted a total of 1,200 photographs for prizes 
in the two categories.  "We were amazed at the number of wonderful 
photographs that came in," said Linda Crittenden, art director for 
"Presbyterians Today" magazine and one of three contest judges.  "It was a 
great response from many photographers who have captured the humanity of 
Latin Americans." 
 
    "Presbyterians Today" will publish the winning photographs in its 
June/July 1998 issue. 
 
    The photography contest is a culminating event in the denomination's 
"Year with Latin Americans" mission emphasis, which began with the 1996 
General Assembly and concludes at the upcoming 1998 Assembly in Charlotte, 
N.C. 
 
    Missionary-in-residence and "Year with Latin Americans" organizer Peter 
Kemmerle said the response to the photo contest "means that these 
Presbyterian photographers care, that their ties with Latin Americans are 
deep and deeply held, that the time they spent with Latin Americans and the 
photographs they took while they were in Latin America are very important 
to them." 
 
    Second place in the black-and-white category went to Elbert M. 
DeForest, a member of First Presbyterian Church in Wichita, Kan., for his 
photographic portrait of a farm woman in the highlands of Ecuador.  Dix 
took third place in the black-and-white competition for his photo of a 
Nicaraguan woman and child in soft focus behind an AK-47 assault rifle in 
sharp focus. 
 
    Second place in color went to Mary E. Johnson, a college student in 
Greensboro, N.C., for a photograph of a man in a rocking chair framed by a 
doorway.  Third place was taken by Earl Brandon, an elder of First 
Presbyterian Church in Tuscaloosa, Ala., for a slide of a woman in a window 
in Olinda, Brazil. 
 
    Honorable mentions were given to Manley, Dix, DeForest, Jerome Crowder 
of Houston and Robert Owen of San Antonio, Texas. 

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