I am pleased to announce that my photos are FIRST PRIZE WINNER, SECOND PRIZE WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION WINNER IN THE NATURE CATEGORY OF THE JULIA MARGARET CAMERON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AWARD 2010
This competition was organized by The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards (WPGA) is for women only and the award winning images will be published in Zoom Magazine, an Italian magazine. WPGA partners with Save the Children, and a large portion of its revenue is donated to that humanitarian organization. The award winners’ work will be exhibited and sold in Buenos Aires in August 2011 as well as published in the book “The Julia Cameron Award 2010.”
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1815-1879, born in Calcutta to a British official of the East India Company, was a British photographer who photographed celebrities of her era. She lived in India, was educated in France and later moved to England. Though she was not widely recognized during her lifetime, her portrait work had a big impact on modern photographers. Her home can be toured on the Isle of Wight, where Alfred Lord Tennyson was her neighbor often bringing people to see her work. Among her subjects were Tennyson, Darwin, Robert Browning, and many other greats. Virginia Woolf was her grandniece. Her work can be seen in the Getty Museum collection, the George Eastman House collection, and other collections.
Jurors for the competition were Mary Ellen Mark, Vanessa Winship and Kim Weston; Magnum Photos’ members Alessandra Sanguinetti and Olivia Arthur; Zoom’s Editor in Chief Rosanna Checchi, and the Curator of the San Diego Museum of Photography Carol McCusker. Images were submitted from 45 countries.
My awarded work is comprised of three images of a female Cardinal from from my photographic series “The Trouble With Birds” in the Nature category. I hope to be able to travel to Buenos Aires for the first time, for the exhibition in August 2011.
EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARD FOR THE CENTER COMPETITION
In a separate competition, these images were also awarded the Editor’s Choice Award in The Center’s (formerly the Santa Fe Center for Photography)competition and will be exhibited next month at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon from Sept. 3-22, 2010.
My winning images were selected by Kathy Ryan, Picture Editor, The New York Times Magazine & Scott Thode, Editor-in-Chief, VII magazine (formerly of Fortune)
NEW WORK
My most recent work was taken during a relaxing stay in the North Woods of Wisconsin. In a small secluded wooden cabin by a lake listening to the calls of loons and the rustling of enormous pines and oaks, I relaxed taking long walks in the woods and kayaking. On long forest walks often completely alone, I listened to the quiet and notice bright spots of color amid the brown pine needles on the forest floor. Lichen, mushrooms and fungi that I was seeing for the first time opened a whole new botanical world and a new series was born!
