NYAB Event - "Winners of Soho Photo's 14th Annual National Photography Competition" Exhibition

"Winners of Soho Photo's 14th Annual National Photography Competition" Exhibition

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At Soho Photo Gallery
Media: Photography

Soho Photo Gallery announces that its July exhibition will feature the top three winners of the Gallery's 14th annual juried National Photography Competition plus entries from 41 other photographers that juror Susan Kismaric, Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, selected to be in the show. To choose the winners, Kismaric viewed more than 2,500 images that had been submitted by 470 photographers from across the U.S.

The top three National Competition winners are:

· First prize: Casilda Sanchez, Chicago, IL:

· Second prize: Andrea Stern, New York, NY

· Third prize: Lydia Panas, Kutztown, PA

After judging the competition, Kismaric remarked:

The submissions to this year's Soho Photo National Competition came from around the country and included just about every variety of contemporary photographic practice. Pictures made with black and white and color film, digital cameras and prints, large format and 35mm cameras, "appropriation", photographs made in the studio and on the street, and work constructed as a kind of installation were received, proving vitality and a deep curiosity about extending the possibilities of photographic practice. For myself, there is nothing as magical as a straightforward picture of the world that transforms what was before the camera into something I've never quite seen before. My selection of "winners" and "honorable mentions" undoubtedly reflects that prejudice. Hopefully, the inclusion in the exhibition of the many other types of work submitted mitigates my weakness, but the work that most impressed me pays attention to what is close at hand but not necessarily seen.

[Image: Casilda Sanchez "As Inside as the Eye Can See"]