Anthropology
in Action

2007 Photo Contest.

The Department of Anthropology has concluded its 1st Annual Photography Contest: Anthropology in Action. Thank you to all who submitted their wonderful photos. Thirteen participants submitted a total of 96 photos.

Our Judges – Christine Scheer, Mia Schnaible, and Robert Walker met for several hours carefully evaluating the photos and selected the winners and honorable mentions.

1st Place receives $300, 2nd Place $200, and 3rd Place $100.

Congratulations to our winners!

Christine Scheer has been a graphic design and photography professional for over 20 years. In the eighties, she helped development of the first touch-screen graphics for outdoor kiosks and educational learning software for the American Hotel and Motel Association. She went back and forth between creating print and photography promotions for the Best Western hotel chain and shooting video at the Omni resorts in Nashville. During the nineties, Christine opened up a full-service advertising agency in Michigan and enjoyed producing print graphics for a variety of corporate and non-profit organizations. She has also had the pleasure of working as videographer for the local Fox affiliate, Channel 11 and as art director for a women's apparel company. In the fashion industry, she learned to art direct at photo shoots, analyze slides, perform film selection, digital color correction and photographic reproduction for use in direct mail catalogs. Christine currently works here at the University of Arizona as graphic designer, producing magazines, photography, websites and multimedia for the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Mia Schnaible has loved photography ever since she borrowed her father's camera during a family vacation. Photography has led her to travel to 49 out of the 50 states to capture the sights. Mia loved landscape photography and couldn't imagine doing any other kind of photography. Until. . . her friends started getting married. After photographing her first wedding, Mia was hooked! She has studied with Denis Reggie, who coined the phrase, "wedding photojournalism", and now she can't get enough of people, places and things!

Mia's beautiful landscapes have captured first and third place several times in both The University of Arizona's "On Our Own Time" art shows and the College of Engineering's art shows. She was very excited when her photo of a server at Pat's Drive-In won 4th place in the Tucson Newspaper's "Tucson Oregionality" contest.

Mia has had the great honor of photographing Linda Ronstadt singing at the Nelson Riddle Tribute Contest and Ben Vereen opening the Stevie Eller Dance Building. She has also had the pleasure of photographing astronauts John Young and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt for a space gallery.

Her work has appeared in The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Citizen, Tucson Weekly, Downtown Tucsonan, Tucson Lifestyle, and The University of Arizona Visitor Guide. She has also appeared in various SBS, School of Music, and UA publications and websites. Mia is the principle photographer for the Arizona International Film Festival.

Robert Walker is retired from the UA where he was the Photo Services Center Manager for many years. You can see his work all over the UA campus and in its publications: The UA Fact Book; School of Theatre Arts web pages; College of Optical Sciences web pages; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Graduation; Objects from the USS Arizona memorial; the Ribbon Cutting Celebration of the UA Campus Arboretum being accepted into the American Associate of Botanical Gardens; and so many other events and publications too numerous to mention here. Robert also was the photographer at Anthropology's 90th Anniversary Celebration Gala.