IPC announces Leadership Award winners

All award recipients will be honored at the 13th Annual IPC Awards Luncheon, held at the United Nations in New York, N.Y., on May 5, at 11:30 a.m. As every year, the IPC Awards Luncheon kicks off May, International Professional Photographers Month. For the IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards 2011, six associations designated honorees: Advertising Photographers of America (APA): Don Dormeyer; American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP): Richard Kelly; Federation of European Photographers (FEP): Martin Vrabko; Professional Photographers of America (PPA): Ron Nichols; White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA): Jamie Rose; and Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI): Doug Gordon.

The 2011 IPC Professional Photographer Lifetime Award recipient, nominated by Professional School Photographers Association (PSPA), is Harold Strawbridge.

This year’s Awards Luncheon Chair will be IPC Vice President and Board member Kathy Schneider-Jello. Andy Marcus; 2010 WPPI Leadership Award honoree, will deliver the keynote address under the title “The Life of Professional Photographers.” IPC Vice President and Board member John Segall will honor Lifetime Achievement Award designee Strawbridge in his introductory remarks.