Speaker — Mike Davis

Mike Davis is an award-winning professional picture editor who helps
photographers improve their work. Mike has helped scores of photographers
at all levels of the profession. He has edited the work of Magazine and
Newspaper Photographers of the Year several times and twice been named
Picture Editor of the Year. He has helped craft 15 stories while a picture editor
National Geographic Magazine, guided the visual archive of the presidency
while at the White House Photo Office and edited photographic bodies of
work for more than a dozen books.

Mike was twice named Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year. He has been a
picture editor for 11 books and co-director of photography for The Blue Planet
Run book. The National Press Photographers Association honored Mike with
The Sprague Award, its highest honor, in 2001. He was most recently a picture
editor at The Oregonian and Director of Photography for MIX magazine.

He has edited the work of Magazine Photographers of the Year twice, Newspaper
Photographers of the Year three times; all three times he edited the work of both the
first and second place winners. His staffs have won Picture Editor of the Year and
Regional Photographer of the Year multiple times.

Mike has judged POYi three different years for a total of five weeks. He has judged
many other international, national and regional photographic competitions and
juried grants including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, The RFK Memorial Fellowship,
the Walkley Awards in Australia and The NPPA/Nikon Sabbatical. He has taught
at several workshops in the U.S., New Zealand and Latin America and lectured at a
wide range of universities and photographic conferences.

Mike earned a masters degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism
with a thesis that created a viable magazine, and a bachelor’s degree from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln with double majors in journalism and Spanish.