Communication Arts - 2010 Photography Annual Jurors

Leslie Baldwin

Photography Editor

Texas Monthly

Leslie Baldwin, photography editor of Austin, Texas-based Texas Monthly, made a pinhole camera out of a shoebox for a sixth grade science project and was hopelessly hooked. She earned degrees in fine arts and art history from the University of Texas, indulged her wanderlust with European jaunts and was an au pair in Paris [France]. Her next stop was New York, where she found freelance gigs—eventually becoming Matt Mahurin’s studio manager and then cover coordinator for Time creative director Arthur Hochstein. After eight years in New York City, a little homesick and a lot hungry for genuine Tex-Mex, Baldwin jumped at an offer from Texas Monthly and moved back to Austin in 2003. She is married and has a young daughter.

Reed Collins

SVP Creative Director

Leo Burnett

Reed Collins is senior vice president, creative director at Leo Burnett in Chicago, Illinois. After graduation from the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, Collins has spent the last fifteen years working at creative agencies on four continents including Mojo & Partners Sydney, Hunt Lascaris TBWA Johannesburg, Lowe Howard-Spink London, Cliff Freeman & Partners New York and creating for brands such as McDonald’s, Staples, Hollywood Video, Qantas, BMW, P&G, Olympus, Stella Artois, Smirnoff, Fox Sports, Kellogg’s, Altoids, Greenpeace and Nintendo. He has won every international award several times over across a wide range of categories. In 2001, Collins was the most awarded creative in the world for his Fox Sports campaign according to the Gunn Report.

Takaaki Matsumoto

Principal/President

Matsumoto, Inc.

Takaaki Matsumoto is the principal and president of New York-based Matsumoto Incorporated, a consulting firm specializing in graphic and product design. Matsumoto is a native of Japan and came to the United States in 1974. He attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and then served as art director for Knoll International in New York City. He was invited to lecture and show his work at New York’s chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, School of Visual Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology. His work is included in the collections of various museums including the Library of Congress, Chicago Athenaeum, Montréal Museum of Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.

RJ Muna

Photographer

RJ Muna Pictures

RJ Muna is widely known as an innovative and multifaceted creative photographer. From his studio in San Francisco, and various locations throughout the world, he has produced acclaimed print work for many clients including Adidas, America West Airlines, Aspen Ski Resorts, Cadillac, Columbia Sportswear, Hewlett Packard, Honda, International Truck, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lexus, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Nissan, San Francisco Ballet, Sony, Levi Strauss & Co., Tesla Motors, Toyota and United Health Care. Muna has won over 150 national awards, including the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Applied Photography and the Lucie Award for Best Commercial Photographer. His work has been featured in Communication Arts and Graphis and his fine art work is represented by several galleries nationally where he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Jane Perovich

Senior Photo Editor

Getty Images

Jane Perovich is a senior photo editor for Getty Images, one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of still imagery, footage and multimedia products. From their offices in Seattle, she leads a team of photo editors and works directly with select, contributing photographers to provide concepts and art direction for specific photo shoots. Before joining Getty Images as a photo editor over a decade ago, she was the photo research manager at Stone/Seattle for five years. In recent years, Perovich has been a juror for the ICPA/International Conservation Photography Awards, the Earth Day Photo Exhibition Competition and the Environmental Photography Invitational and has provided photographer reviews for the annual Photographic Center Northwest Foto Revue and emerging student photographers participating in the Youth In Focus program.