UF senior named College Photographer of the Year
February 4, 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — After reviewing the work of 566 college students from around the world, judges from National Geographic, The Washington Post and the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently named University of Florida student Tim Hussin the 63rd College Photographer of the Year.
The photojournalism senior won gold in the portfolio and the multimedia-individual still image/audio story or essay categories. He received silver in the multimedia-individual video/mixed media story or essay category, and bronze in the documentary picture story category.
Judges viewed more than 13,000 still images and 169 multimedia projects at the University of Missouri, which administers the competition with co-sponsor Nikon. As the College Photographer of the Year, Hussin will do a 14-week paid internship at National Geographic this summer.
In addition to his summer internship for The Monroe Evening News in Michigan, Hussin has worked for The Independent Florida Alligator and The Gainesville Sun. He recently interned at Salt Lake City’s Deseret News and shot photos for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.
“For the past eight months, I was interning, so I was constantly working and not really reflecting so much,” Hussin said. “And since I got back, I’ve had time to do that and assimilate all my work.”
Hussin also recently won the inaugural multimedia category of the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program. He came in second in the portrait/feature round for the photojournalism category. He has participated in the Department of Journalism’s Berlin Journalism and Florida FlyIns programs, and he assists associate professor John Freeman with his photojournalism classes.
“I just wanted to have him around, so people could absorb some of his skill and feeling and the subtlety of how he operates,” Freeman said. “I’m trying to get his influence out there.”
The college is a national leader in the professional education of future journalists and other communication practitioners.