Ruth Eichhorn (Germany)

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Ruth Eichhorn has been the Director of Photography of the German GEO magazines since 1994. She started her career with GEO in 1980 with the lau

nch of the French version of the magazine. From 1988 to 1994 she worked out of GEO's New York office as their Bureau Chief. Before joining GEO, she worked as Photo Editor for several German magazines. Besides her work as a Photo Editor she curated and organised numerous photo exhibitions (among others ,Earth from Above" and ,The African View") and edited several photo books for GEO. She is right now working on a book project ,"The photographers" - 60 extraordinary stories from 30 years of GEO". She served in numerous juries of national and international photo contests and was a member of the World Press Photo Award in 2004. She is the Chairman of the German nominating committee for the Joop Masterclass for young photographers. She is a permanent member of the jury of the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award. In 2002 German GEO was elected for ,Best Use of Photography" by the Picture of the Year International Competition of the Missouri School of Journalism/USA. She was born and raised in Kiel/Germany and lived and studied in Paris/France.

Statements of the jury members

I'm very happy to be in China again and I'm honored that I have been invited for a second chance to this prestigious jury.

I'm proud of the winning picture we chose last year. It's very strong statement about the struggle going on between human beings and the animal world. It's important issue of our time.

Last year we were not able to find a gold winner in the sport category. I'm sure that this year with the Olympic we will have no problems finding strong sports images.