1992 ONPA  Annual Contest Winners

Photographer of the Year
1st – Allan Detrich, Toledo Blade
2nd – Mike Levy, The Plain Dealer
3rd – Fred Sguillante, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Robin Layton Kinsley, The Plain Dealer
HM – Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer

Ohio Understanding Award
1st – Ed Suba, Jr., Akron Beacon Journal
2nd – Robin Witek, Akron Beacon Journal
3rd – Mike Levy ,The Plain Dealer
HM – Eric Albrecht, The Columbus Dispatch

Newspaper Picture Usage (over 50,000)
1st – The Columbus Dispatch
2nd – Akron Beacon Journal
3rd – Dayton Daily News

Newspaper Picture Usage (under 50,000)
1st – Medina County Gazette
2nd – Troy Daily News

Magazine Picture Usage
1st – Akron Beacon Journal

Campaign 92
1st – Paul Tople, Akron Beacon Journal
2nd – Lew Stamp, Akron Beacon Journal
3rd – Dale Omori, The Plain Dealer
HM – Eric Albrecht, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer

Editorial Illustration
1st – Lawrence Lambert The Plain Dealer
2nd – Brynne Shaw The Plain Dealer
3rd – DavidZapotosky Toledo Blade

Fashion
1st – Kevin Miyazaki, Cincinnati Enquirer
2nd – Dale Omori, The Plain Dealer
3rd – Kevin Casey, Akron Beacon Journal
HM – Brynne Shaw, The Plain Dealer
HM – Ed Suba, Jr., Akron Beacon Journal

Feature
1st – Bill Kennedy, The Plain Dealer
2nd – Mark Bowen, Freelance
3rd – Robin Witek, Akron Beacon Journal
HM – Luci S. Williams, The Plain Dealer
HM – Fred Squillante, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Ernest Coleman, Cincinnati Enquirer

Feature Picture Story
1st – Fred Sguillante, The Columbus Dispatch
2nd – Allan Detrich, Toledo Blade
3rd – Chris Russell, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Mike Levy, The Plain Dealer

Food Illustration
1st – Lawrence Lambert, The Plain Dealer
2nd – Ed Suba, Jr., Akron Beacon Journal
3rd – Fred Squillante, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Lew Stamp, Akron Beacon Journal

General News
1st – Brynne Shaw, The Plain Dealer
2nd – MIke Levy, The Plain Dealer
3rd – Mike Levy, The Plain Dealer
HM – Scott Shaw, The Plain Dealer
HM – Fred Squillante, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Mike Levy, The Plain Dealer

Industrial Illustration
1st – Doral Chenoweth III, The Columbus Dispatch
2nd – Eric Albrecht, The Columbus Dispatch
3rd – Chuck Crow, The News-Herald

News Picture Story
1st – Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer
2nd – Allan Detrich, Toledo Blade
3rd – Rick Wilson, Troy Daily News

Pictorial
1st – Chip Gamertsfelder, Kettering -Oakwood Times
2nd – Allan Detrich, Toledo Blade
3rd – A.J. Wolfe, Ohio University
HM – Gregory Shaver, Medina County Gazette
HM – Bill Kennedy, The Plain Dealer

Portrait Personality
1st – Mike Levy, The Plain Dealer
2nd – Lew S tamp, Akron Beacon Journal
3rd – William Reinke, Dayton Daily News
HM – Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer
HM – Jeff Hinckley, The Columbus Dispatch

Sports Action
1st – Bob DeMay, The (Youngstown) Vindicator
2nd – Gregory Shaver, Medina County Gazette
3rd – Tern Cavoli, Lorain Journal
HM – David Andersen, The Plain Dealer
HM – Mark Duncan, Associated Press
HM – Mike Munden, The Columbus Dispatch
HM – Chuck Crow, The News Herald

Sports Feature
1st – Brynne Shaw, The Plain Dealer
2nd – Douglass Oster, The (Youngstown) Vindicator
3rd – Matt Dilyard, Ohio University
HM – Gary Harwood, Freelance
HM – Robin Layton Kinsley, The Plain Dealer
HM – Bob Rossiter, Canton Repository

Sports Picture Story
1st – Lloyd Young, Lorain Journal
2nd – Paul Tople, Akron Beacon Journal
3rd – Robin Layton Kinsley, The Plain Dealer

Spot News
1st – Lloyd Young, Lorain Journal
2nd – Tom E. Puskar, Ashland Times-Gazette
3rd – Ed Roberts, Dayton Daily News
HM – Bill Garlow, Dayton Daily News
HM – Allan Detrich, Toledo Blade
HM – Brynne Shaw, The Plain Dealer
HM – Lloyd Young, Lorain Journal

Team Picture Story
1st – Toledo Blade
2nd – The Columbus Dispatch

Photographers of the Year

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2023 – Jeremy Wadsworth, The Blade
(Large Market)
Andrew Dolph, The Times Reporter
(Small Market)

2022 – Adam Cairns, The Columbus Dispatch (Large Market)
Shane Flanigan, ThisWeek Community News (Small Market)

2021 – Joshua A. Bickel, The Columbus Dispatch (Large Market)
Bill Lackey, Springfield News-Sun (Small Market)

2020 – Meg Vogel – Cincinnati Enquirer (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2019Meg Vogel – Cincinnati Enquirer (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2018 Meg Vogel – Cincinnati Enquirer (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2017 – Joshual A. Bickel – The Columbus Dispatch (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2016 – Meg Vogel – Cincinnati Enquirer (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2015 – Carrie Cochran – Cincinnati Enquirer (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2014 – Eamon Queeney – The Columbus Dispatch (Large Market)
Jessica Phelps – The Newark Advocate (Small Market)

2013 – Katie Rausch – The (Toledo) Blade (Large Market)
Joshua A. Bickle – ThisWeek Community Newspapers (Small Market)

2012 – Gus Chan – The Plain Dealer (Large Market)
Bill Lackey – Springfield News-Sun (Small Market)

2011 – Lisa DeJong – The Plain Dealer (Large Market)
Bill Lackey – Springfield News-Sun (Small Market)

2010 – Lisa DeJong – The Plain Dealer (Large Market)
(no Small Market award given)

2009 – Fred Squillante – The Columbus Dispatch (Large Market)
Bill Lackey – Springfield News-Sun (Small Market)

2008 – Lisa De Jong – The Plain Dealer

2007 – Chris Russell – The Columbus Dispatch

2006 – John Kuntz – The Plain Dealer

2005 – Mike Levy – The Plain Dealer

2004 – John Kuntz – The Plain Dealer

2003 – Dale Omori – The Plain Dealer

2002 – Ed Suba Jr. – Akron Beacon Journal

2001 Mike Levy – The Plain Dealer

2000 – Mike Levy – The Plain Dealer

1999 – Karen Schiely – Akron Beacon Journal

1998– Mike Levy – The Plain Dealer

1997 – Fred Squillante – Columbus Dispatch

1996 Eric Albrecht – The Columbus Dispatch

1995 Eric Albrecht – The Columbus Dispatch

1994 – Allan Detrich – The Blade

1993 – Ed Suba Jr. – Akron Beacon Journal

1992 – Allan Detrich – The (Toledo) Blade

1991 – Mike Levy – The Plain Dealer

1990 – Ed Suba Jr. – Akron Beacon Journal

1989 – Dale Omori – The Plain Dealer

1988 – Eric Albrecht – The Columbus Dispatch

1987 – Eric Albrecht – The Columbus Dispatch

1986 – Tim Barman – Kent State University

1985 – Melvin Grier – Cincinnati Post

1984 Lois Bernstein – Ohio University

1983 – Eric Albrecht – The (New Philadelphia) Times Reporter

1982 – Steve Ilko – Warren Tribune Chronicle

1981 – David Andersen – The Plain Dealer

1980 – Bob Dickerson – Cincinnati Post

1979 – Gail Fisher – Ohio University

1978 – Natalie Fobes – Cincinnati Enquirer

1977 – David Griffin – Ohio University

1976 – Marcia Nighswander – Akron Beacon Journal – No other results from that year

1975 – No results from 1975

1974 – Michael Good – Lorain Journal

1973

1972

1971

1970 – Jim Gordon – Bowling Green State University

1967 – Herral Long – The (Toledo) Blade
No other results from 1967

1960 

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