PMA to honor industry veterans at PMA@CES

John Segall was born into a photographic family. His grandfather, Louis Segall, was a portrait photographer in Germany; his father, Karl Segall, a Professional School Photographers Association (PSPA) Past President and a recipient of the PMA Distinguished Service Award, joined Louis in opening a photography studio after they immigrated to America in 1938.

John and his brother Jeff joined the family business more than 40 years ago. In 1995, the Segall brothers sold both Segall-Majestic and Elegant Images to Lifetouch Inc., and continue to work with Lifetouch to this day.

After attending his first PMA seminar in New Orleans in 1974, Segall joined the PSPA Board of Directors in 1982, and served until 1988. He was elected President of PSPA in 1985 (a position John’s brother Jeff also held, in 1995) and served on the PMA Board of Directors from 1989-1997, and was elected President of the Association in 1993. In 1994, he became a PMA Lifetime Member, and served on the PMA Services Board of Directors from 2004-2012. Segall was the organizer of the industry gift to Roy S. Pung, upon Pung’s retirement from PMA in 2002, and serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Michigan State University Roy S. Pung Best Practices in Management Lecture Series. Segall received the PMA Distinguished Service Award in 2008, and the PSPA Lynx Award in 2012.

Segall currently serves the imaging industry as Vice President and Board member of the International Photographic Council (IPC), and organized and staged the United Nations Exhibition of Photography on behalf of the IPC at Photokina in 2012. He is also a member of the Buck Rogers/NPG Group.

Recipients of the 2014 Distinguished Service Award are Manny Almeida of Fujifilm North America Corp., Ron Kubara of Noritsu Canada, and Jim Miller, MCPF, GCF, of Artframe Inc.