Enter the 'My Favorite Critter' Contest

Winner spends a day learning the ropes from a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer

Each semester, the Brandeis Forum on Environmental Crisis will sponsor a photo contest open to all members of the campus community. This semester we celebrate the wonder and delight of animal diversity.  Enter your best photograph of a “critter” – defined as a non-human mammal, bird, insect, or anything else that’s alive and not a plant, fungus, bacteria in the broad sense, or protozoan. Yes, some of those life forms will be featured in future competitions; this one is about critters.

To enter a photo, simply send a JPG or GIF image to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your name. Images should be original digital pictures no smaller than 800 x 550. Multiple entries are permitted. The deadline for entries is February 12, 2010.

The prize for winning this contest is a day spent shadowing/shooting with prize-winning Boston Globe photographerEssdras M. Suarez.

Essdras M. Suarez was born in Panama, and lives here with his wife Sara and their spoiled cat Duncan. A graduate of the University of Florida, Suarez joined the staff of The Boston Globe in 2002 after six years on staff at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, where he shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in spot news. Suarez has covered the Iraq war, conflict in Haiti, the Asian tsunami aftermath, and Israeli settlement evacuation among his many foreign assignments. Other assignments for the Globe have taken him to Sudan, Egypt, Laos, Cambodia, Venezuela, Brazil, Russia, Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Indonesia, France, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, China, and Turkey, as well as countless domestic locations. He taught photojournalism to the Salvadoran press corps under the auspices of the US State Department, and more recently at the Universidad Veritas in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has spoken to students at Boston University, Wellesley College, Northeastern University and other colleges. In addition to sharing the Pulitzer Prize, he has won numerous other awards including the Robert F. Kennedy International Photojournalism Award, the Headliner Award for International Photojournalism, the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation Gold Award, several awards of excellence from the Society for News Design, and several awards by the Colorado Press Association and the Boston Press Photographers Association. He enjoys martial arts, mountain biking, rock climbing, yoga, and reading fiction books.

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