2025 WNAF Collegiate Better Newspaper Contest

Feature Photography ( Division A) Back

  • Place Name: First Place
    Contestant Name: The Daily Cardinal
    Entry Title: Eric Benedict, Instruction Technology User Manager for the Madison Metropolitan School District, at MMSD's district office on Dayton Street
    Entry Credit: Maggie Spinney
    Judge Comment: Nice use of framing on this portrait. We get a sense of who this guy is – he doesn't take himself too seriously – if he has all these stickers on the window of his classroom. Creative use of depth of field to highlight the in-focus subject with the stickers in the foreground. Much better than a posed photo at his desk.
  • Place Name: Second Place
    Contestant Name: The Daily Cardinal
    Entry Title: Kane Funmaker, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, leads the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus
    Entry Credit: Jake Piper
    Judge Comment: Nice job getting a clear portrait on this subject.
  • Place Name: Third Place
    Contestant Name: Media Milwaukee
    Entry Title: Pacific Palisades
    Entry Credit: Caleb Rose
    Judge Comment: Nice composition in particular on the photo with the burned landscape and foliage in the foreground, with the hazmat suited figures in the background.