Showing posts with label 2015 National Photography Competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015 National Photography Competition. Show all posts

7.09.2015

SOHO PHOTO GALLERY: Exhibition to July 25th

Opening night; front row: Jane Sheng, Stella Kramer, Alan Kleinberg. Back row: Yorgos Efthymiadis, Jaime Permuth, Joslin Van Arsdale, Sean Perry, William Avedon, Matthew Avedon

John A. Bennette
 
Jennifer McClure with Honorable Mention “Untitled” from her series “You Who Never Arrived”, Rocio De Alba and DB Waltrip, Babak P. Aryan with his photograph "The Coming", Rocio De Alba with her work "Blessed Art Thou Among Women". 2nd row: Musicians Koran Agan and Matthew Avedon with 1st place winner Paul Kessel, Mark Roussell with his 3rd place winning image “Finding and Losing My Father #3”, John F. Martin, Babak P. Aryan. 3rd row: Jennifer McClure, Rocio De Alba, John F. Martin, Joslin Van Arsdale (from Paddle 8 Online Auctions).

Photographer John F. Martin with his new book, In Character, of his portraits from the San Francisco Opera, and his photograph, Birnam Wood

Robert Moran, Daughter of a Slave, Timbuktu, Mali
Ben Altman, The More That Is Taken Away, Act 1, Year Two, November


SOHO PHOTO GALLERY
15 White Street, NYC
Wednesday - Sunday, 1-6 pm 

I was honored to be this year's juror for  the 2015 National Competition for the Soho Photo Gallery. Paul Kessel's somber beauty "Entering The Metropolitan Opera" is the First Place winner. His image stayed with me like the atmosphere of a 70's era Winogrand scene. For 2nd Place, I chose Yorgos Efthymiadis’s "Net" from his "Letting My Guard Down" body of work for it's serene, solitary empty space and color. 3rd Place, I was deeply drawn into the unusual landscape by artist Mark Roussel from his series "Finding and Losing My Father." All Honorable Mentions; Ben Altman, Sheri Lynn Behr, Jennifer McClure, and Robert Moran, along with all the photographs accepted into the exhibition, represent my interest and love for fine art photography as well as portraiture, landscape, street and travel work...read more HERE