Awards

J. Winton Lemen Award

Awarded to those rendering continuing outstanding service in the interests of press photography and for outstanding technical achievement in photography (established 1948).

J. Winton Lemen was a charter member of the NPPA. In 1952, after a distinguished career as a news photographer at the Rocky Mountain News, Pittsburgh Press and Buffalo Times, Lemen established the photo press markets division of the Eastman Kodak Co. and served as the firm's liaison with the nation's news photographers.

Wint Lemen also organized four Rochester Photo Conferences and established a scholarship in his name at Kent (Ohio) State University. He retired from Kodak in 1970 and died in Rochester, N.Y., on July 25, 1984. He was a recipient of NPPA's Joseph Sprague Award.

2021
No award

2020
Helen McQuerry

2019
Matt Pearl

2018
Sony Electronics

2017
Matt Waite

2016
DJI Technology

2015
Think Tank Photo

2014
Nick Woodman

2013
Mark Suban
Mike Mount
John D. McHugh (Marksta)

2012
John Harrington

2011
Photoshelter

2010
Greg Anderson

2009
Canon USA
Nikon USA

2008
Rich Beckman

2007
Joe Weiss

2006
William (Sandy) Colton

2005
Mark Bell

2004
Dennis Walker

2003
Brian Storm

2002
Joe Torelli

2001
Al Tompkins

2000
Karl Kuntz

1999
Lon Cooper

1998
Emory Kristoff
Fuji Research Team

1997
John Harcourt
Harold G. Buell

1996
Claude Petrone
Dr. Dick Dickerson

1995
Ken Tiven
Mark Loundy

1994
Dave Metz
Sony Corp.

1993
John Davidson
George Sweers
John Cornell

1992
Paul Curtis

1991
Adobe Systems Inc.

1990
Laslo Vesprimi

1989
Robert Caspe

1988
Charles R. Freestone
J. Scott Henry

1987
Brian Horton

1986
Charles Hulcher
Fred Shook

1985
Robert Gilka
John E. Young

1984
Delmar L. Borer
William Pekala

1983
Anthony J. Spina

1982
Kenneth Paik

1981
James Gordon
Sheila Keyes
Marci Robbins

1980
Roone Arledge
Amelia Ehrenreich

1979
David Bowen

1978
Mike Tatem

1977
Martin Forscher

1976
Edmund M. DiGiulio

1975
Dr. Edward Lowe

1974
Edward R. Farber
James Frezzolini

1973
George A. Shivers
Gordon Yoder

1972
Sam Fox
Harvey A. Weber

1971
John Faber

1970
Walter Heun

1969
Prince Bernhard
Dr. Robert Richter

1968
John W. Ahlhauser
Marshall A. Dussinger
Robert East

1967
Gerald Clarke
Leslie H. Swenson

1966
Bayard F. Lawes
Cal Olson

1965
John Savage

1964
Charles T. Higgins
Don Mohler

1963
J. Winton Lemen

1962
James Bennett
John Reidy
Don Swenson
Les Swenson

1961
George Yates

1960
Joseph Benetti
Morris Berman
James M. Godbold
John Rammel

1958
Charles Cooper
Nelson Tiffany

1957
Irvin Forbes
Monroe B. Stoecker

1956
Howard Hammersley
Lester A. Linck
Arthur L. Witman

1955
Robert Dumke

1954
Robert Boyd
Floyd McCall
Marvin Richmond

1953
A. Aubrey Bodine
Bates Raney

1952
Ollie Atkins
Kenneth McLaughlin
Andy Willoner

1950
John Faber
Samuel Mellor
Paul Threlfall

1949
Joseph Costa
Charles Mack

1948
Burt Williams