Juror: Anthony Bannon
Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House, the International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. Prior to his appointment in 1996, he was the director of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo and Director of its Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Anthony has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator. His book, Photo Pictorialists of Buffalo, won the American Photographic Historical Society's merit award and his writing on deafness won the Gallaudet University Award. His recent publications include essays on the photographer Steve McCurry, Diane Bush, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Roger Eberhard.
Anthony has served on art councils in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, on the Executive Committee of the New York State Council for the Humanities, and on the boards of High Falls Film Festival, Santa Fe Center for Photography, H.H. Richardson Restoration Architectural Center, and the Rochester School for the Deaf.