Takaaki Iwabu
Bloomberg / Photo Editor
Takaaki Iwabu is a photo editor at Bloomberg. After working in the United States as a photojournalist for nearly 20 years, he returned to Japan in 2013, and took on the current role as a photo editor at Bloomberg Tokyo Bureau, a position he has held for the past decade.
Iwabu was a staff photographer with The Niagara Gazette in Niagara Falls, New York, The State Newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, and The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. The recognitions he has received include the Society of Newspaper Design’s Silver Award and the Asian American Journalists Association’s National Award in Photography. He was twice named South Carolina Newspaper Photographer of the Year.
Iwabu is a graduate of Nihon University with B.A. in International Relations, and Marshall University with M.A. in Journalism. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated and Life: The Year in Pictures.
Current Jury
Soichiro Shimizu Artist / Professor
Casey Kelbaugh Slideluck
Beate Chelette PhotoBizCoach
Past Jury
Patrick Brzeski People Magazine
Kathleen Clark Curator
Natasha Egan Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Koji Orimoto Digital Camera Watch
Tatiana Kurtanova FotoLoft
