WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan. 1981- Oct. 2008         Staff Photographer / Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, AK

On-call Photo Editor  (May 1999 - Present)

Assistant photo editor (June 2006-Sept. 2007)

Chief Photographer  (June 1984-October 1991)

Acting-Photo Editor  (May-Oct 1985)

 

Spring 2008         Adjunct Instructor / Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage Undergraduate Beginning Digital Photography  course

Fall – 1998 /  1999 / 2001       Adjunct Instructor / University of Alaska, Anchorage / Undergraduate Photojournalism A300 course

 

1979 - Present         Jim Lavrakas • Far North • Photography / Freelance Photographer / Anchorage, AK. Specializing in Wedding, Photo-

journalism, and Performing Arts photography.

 

EDUCATION

1970-1974         University of Massachusetts (Amherst), English, B.A. Three years with the campus newspaper, The Daily Collegian, as a writer,

photographer, copy editor, layout designer and co-editor of weekly fine arts supplement

1985        39th Missouri Workshop, Poplar Bluff, MO. A photographic workshop to hone skills in producing photo stories.

1996 -      10th Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, San Antonio, TX. A digital photography workshop.

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

MEMBER:

1981-2008         Alaska Press Club (APC), Board Member 1991-1993 / National Press Photographer's Association (NPPA). The NPPA is the national

organization for photojournalists, consisting of over 10,000  members.

1982 - Present         Member & Associate Director (board member) NPPA Region 11 (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia) 1998-2000

1990          President of the Board, Ageless Music Works, a non-profit organization that produced children’s music, benefiting local  agencies

involved in child abuse prevention.

 

AWARDS

1981 - 2008          Winner of numerous awards in the annual Alaska Press Club and regional Society of Professional Journalists competitions.

1988        Winner of the Joseph Costa Award presented by Ball State University for the best courtroom photograph taken in the nation.

1989        Member of the Anchorage Daily News' team effort that won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service with "A People in Peril",

a series of stories dealing with alcoholism and self-destructive behavior of Alaskan Natives. It also highlighted success stories of those imperiled.

2002        Second Place, World Press Photo / Nature & Environment category for “Northern pike swallows rainbow trout”

 

PUBLISHED        

Sports Illustrated

America 24/7

Times of London Sunday Magazine

Teen People Magazine

New York Times

Time Magazine

Alaska Magazine

Associated Press

Reuters News Agency

USA Today

 

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