We are honored to have a highly accomplished group of industry professionals who, along with the Circadian Pictures team, will be making up the CPCF2020 panel of judges. Get to know these industry professionals below.
BRITTANY BIANCHI
ART DIRECTOR // PUMA
DUDLEY M. BROOKS
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY // THE WASHINGTON POST
AREM DUPLESSIS
GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR // APPLE
KAY GAUTRAUD
SENIOR ART & CONTENT PRODUCER
SHIRI KORNOWSKI
DESIGN DIRECTOR // PEPSI
MICHELE ROMERO
CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR
ART STREIBER
PHOTOGRAPHER
TODD VANECKO
MANAGING DIRECTOR // LINDEMAN & ASSOCIATES
SUSAN WHITE
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR // FORMERLY OF VANITY FAIR
BRITTANY BIANCHI
Brittany works for PUMA as a graphic designer and art director collaborating with industry leading photographers, brand ambassadors and musical artists to develop content featured in stores and consumer distribution channels across the globe. She currently lives in Boston and spends her free time escaping to the outdoors to climb, bike or hike throughout New England.
DUDLEY M. BROOKS
Dudley M. Brooks is the Deputy Director of Photography for The Washington Post, where he manages the strategy and production of photo content for the Features and Sports sections. He is also the Photo Editor for The Washington Post Magazine. Immediately prior, Brooks was the Director of Photography and Senior Photo Editor for the monthly magazine Ebony and its weekly sister periodical Jet - both published by Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago. These iconic publications chronicled the African-American experience for over 70-years and he was a key member of the senior staff responsible for enhancing the editorial approach of each.
A Maryland resident and a graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Brooks began his journalism career in 1981 as a staff photographer for the Rockford Register Star newspaper in northern Illinois. He later joined the award-winning photo staff at The Washington Post from 1983-2005.
Before returning to the Post in 2014, Brooks also served as the Assistant Managing Editor of Photography at The Baltimore Sun newspaper (2005-2007). He was also the co-creator of the landmark 1990 project Songs of My People: African-Americans – A Self-Portrait. A best-selling book published by Little-Brown and combined with an internationally traveled exhibition (touring five continents), this undertaking showcased newly commissioned work by 53 African-American photographers from across the country. It was primarily sponsored by Time-Warner and the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
AREM DUPLESSIS
Arem is currently a Group CD within Apple's Marketing Department.
Previously he served as Design Director of The New York Times Magazine where he led a department named 'Design Team of The Year' by The ADC for 3 consecutive years. During his tenure the magazine received numerous awards including an Emmy for the film series — 'Touch of Evil’.
He was honored as a distinguished alumni of Pratt Institute, an AIGA Medalist and recognized by D&AD, ADC, SPD, TDC, AIGA, American Photography, Graphis among others.
For his redesign of GQ he partnered with Jonathan Hoefler and Tobaias Frere Jones to create the typeface GQ Gotham, later shortened to Gotham. Used in Obama’s campaigns, advertisements for Coca-Cola and SNL, Gotham soon became one of the most recognizable typefaces of a generation.
Duplessis has served as a visiting professor within Pratt’s Graduate Communication Design Department, SVA and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
He has lectured throughout the US and abroad including London, Copenhagen, Oslo, Madrid, Barcelona, Jakarta and Dubai.
KAY GAUTRAUD
Kay is a Senior Art and Content Producer living and working in Los Angeles for the past 15 years. In that time she’s produced for such brands as Disney, Gatorade, Apple, Facebook, and Coors. These productions have included the full gamut of art and media at a brand’s disposal and have taken her all over the world. Even though she’s been on the West Coast for over a decade, she still considers Michigan home since her love of art and photography initially started there. Kay received her BFA from Michigan State University, then an additional BA in photography from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. Photography has always been a true love of Kay's — it’s power to create, document and communicate everything from a single emotion to a complex news event inspires her and her work every day.
SHIRI KORNOWSKI
Shiri Kornowski is an award-winning, multidisciplinary design leader specializing in branding, marketing and advertising. Her work has been featured in design magazines, books and online publications, including IdN, BranD, Choi’s Gallery, The Dieline, The Drum and Lovely Package, amongst others.
She is the Founder and Creative Partner of Squat New York, a branding agency in NYC, and currently leads the design team for the Pepsi brand in PepsiCo North America across all channels from conception to execution. She covers all touchpoints including brand identity, packaging, photography, digital, social, and TVC—all while fostering the interconnectedness of the relationships within the company.
She earned her B.Design Degree in Visual Communication from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem with honors in 2006, and in 2009 she started her M.A in Communications Management and Technology at NYU in New York City.
MICHELE ROMERO
Michele Romero is a senior level Creative Director of Original Image Content with a focus on global pop culture for brands with worldwide social media reach. She spent 29 years at Entertainment Weekly Magazine as a Photo Editor--from start-up until it's recent move to a monthly brand. Michele has produced award winning work from concept to final product with renowned professional photographers such as, Brigitte Lacombe, Mary Ellen Mark, Anton Corbijn, Art Streiber, Martin Schoeller, Platon, Peggy Sirota, Marco Grob, Michael Muller, Danny Clinch, Dana Lixenberg, Dan Winters, Ruven Afanador, Frank W. Ockenfels 3, and Richard Phibbs among others.
Michele is known for her original ideas that have become memorable covers, movie posters, and advertising campaigns. She is passionate about the history of photography and art and is fluent in both contemporary and historic archives. She is a lecturer, and a curator of photography exhibitions. Her illustrations have appeared in national magazines and she has created brand identities for music publicity firms which includes logo and web design. Michele is also a published critic on music, fine art, photography, and books.
ART STREIBER
Art Streiber is a Los Angeles-based freelance photographer specializing in portrait, reportage, entertainment, and advertising photography. At the beginning of his career, Streiber served as co-bureau chief for Fairchild Publications in Milan, Italy, where he contributed to Women’s Wear Daily, W magazine, and M magazine. Streiber currently serves on the Board of the Los Angeles Center of Photography and the PhotoPlus Expo Advisory Board. For the last decade, Streiber’s imagery has been selected to appear in American Photography and Communication Arts Photography Annual. He is inspired by the great portrait, fashion and documentary photographers of the mid 20th Century. Streiber was introduced to photography in middle school by his grandfather, an avid amateur with his own darkroom. Streiber has a BA in Communications from Stanford University.
TODD VANECKO
Todd Vanecko is an award-winning creative manager and producer with over 15 years of experience overseeing the development, production and delivery of creative ideas for brands like Apple and Beats by Dre as well as advertising agencies across the country. He currently lives in Culver City with his wife, Karen, and their shared dream of leaving it all behind someday to live in the Santa Barbara wine country.
SUSAN WHITE
Susan White is a New York based photography director and creative project manager.
She most recently co-curated a current exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, entitled,
Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling, The Stars, The Parties, and The Powerbrokers, opening February 2020.
Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling, The Stars, The Parties, and The Powerbrokers, opening February 2020.
Susan also served as WeWork’ s Photography Director this past year, working with notable architectural photographers on a global interiors project documenting the company’s premiere locations.
As the Photography Director of VANITY FAIR magazine under the editorship of Graydon Carter, Susan worked with many of the world’s most renowned photographers. The magazine won numerous photography awards during her tenure, including Ellies from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), Gold and Silver awards from the Society of Publication Designers (SPD), an Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design, plus multiple awards in American Photography. In 2005, The Lucie Foundation named Susan Photo Editor of the Year. She has served as a judge at ASME, SPD, World Press Photo, Lens Culture and The International Photography Awards. Susan has been a speaker at Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival in Arles, France, and a reviewer at The Palm Springs Photo Festival in Palm Springs, CA, The New York Times Lens Portfolio Review in NYC and at the International Photo Festival in Olten, Switzerland.
Following her time at Vanity Fair, Susan became the Executive Photography Editor of the London based tech/travel/media start-up, The Culture Trip, mentoring a NY-London photography team dedicated to cultivating emerging photographic talent on a global scale. While there, she brokered and produced a series of portraits for a Waterkeeper Alliance / Culture Trip partnership, celebrating the Waterkeeper Alliance’s 20 years monitoring the environmental health of the world’s waterways. Waterkeeper Warriors was exhibited at New York’s Photoville in September 2019.
She is the owner of Susan White Projects and advises on photography for the on-line newsletter AirMail, and for the most recent issue of Netflix’s new print journal, Queue. Susan lives in downtown Manhattan where she raised a son and two Norwich Terriers with her photographer husband.
