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Rising Star – 2020

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Arnika Dawkins, Photo credit: Allen Cooley

Arnika Dawkins

Arnika Dawkins is the owner of her eponymous fine art photography gallery established in Atlanta in 2012. The gallerist shows work by talented emerging and mid-career artists with a specialization in showing fine art photography by African Americans and images of people from the African Diaspora. Her passion is connecting collectors to photography that is significant, inspiring, and provocative. As a fine art photographer and avid collector herself, she is a valuable resource to collectors and artists alike. She is passionate about the medium, having obtained a Master of Arts in Digital Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.


adawkinsgallery.com
Presented by: Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation; contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Willis is the author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present; and co-author of The Black Female Body A Photographic History; Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery; and Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (both titles a NAACP Image Award Winner). Professor Willis’s curated exhibitions include: “In Pursuit of Beauty” at Express Newark; “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography and “Reframing Beauty: Intimate Moments” at Indiana University. Since 2006 she has co-organized thematic conferences exploring imaging the black body in the West such as the conference titled Black Portraiture[s] which was held in Johannesburg in 2016. She has appeared and consulted on media projects including documentary films such as Through A Lens Darkly and Question Bridge: Black Males, a transmedia project, which received the ICP Infinity Award 2015, and American Photography, PBS Documentary.

Photo credit: Alice Proujansky

Rising Star – 2015

Kat Kiernan

Kat Kiernan

Kat Kiernan

Kat Kiernan is the Editor-in-Chief of Don’t Take Pictures, a print and online photography publication.


katkiernan.com/
Presented by: Debbie Hagan

Debbie Hagan will present the award to Kat Kiernan

Rising Star – 2014

Photo credit © CCP

Rebecca Senf

Dr. Rebecca Senf

Dr. Rebecca Senf is the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment at the Center for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum.


www.creativephotography.org/contact-us/rebecca-becky-senf
Presented by: Barbara Bosworth

Barbara Bosworth will present the award to Dr. Rebecca Senf

Rising Star – 2013

Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette, Founding Publisher and Editor of Lavalette and the Director of Light Work in Syracuse, NY


www.shanelavalette.com/
Presented by: Susan Worsham

Susan Worsham will present the award to Shane Lavalette

Rising Star – 2012

Portrait of Aline

Aline Smithson

Aline Smithson

Aline Smithson, began her career as a fashion editor and is now a widely published and exhibited photographer, educator and blogger.


alinesmithson.com/
Presented by: Caleb Cole

Caleb Cole will present the award to Aline Smithson.

Rising Star – 2011

Eileen Gittins

Eileen Gittins

Eileen Gittins

Eileen Gittins, is Founder, President, and CEO of Blurb.


Presented by: Joyce Tenneson

Joyce Tenneson will present the award to Ms. Gittins.

Rising Star – 2010

David Bram

David Bram

Based in Albuquerque, NM, Bram is editor, curator, and founder of the popular and influential Fraction Magazine, now in its sixteenth issue.


www.fractionmagazine.com/david-bram/
Presented by: Mary Virginia Swanson

Marketing Consultant, Swanson makes it her goal to help photographers find the strengths in their work and identify appreciative audiences for their prints, exhibitions, editorial, and licensing placement. She will present the award to David Bram.

Rising Star – 2009

Rob Haggart

Rob Haggart

Haggart is the former director of photography for Men’s Journal and Outside magazines. He has received photo editing recognition from Graphis, American Photography, Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, American Society of Magazine Editors and Photo District News, and was chosen as part of the creative team of the year by Ad Week. He currently freelances as a photography director and runs APhotoEditor.com, a blog on photography.


aphotoeditor.com
Presented by: Jill Enfield

Jill Enfield, a fine art photographer, author and educator will present the award to Rob Haggart.

Rising Star – 2008

Jen Beckman

Jen Bekman

Jen Bekman is the Founder and Owner, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York


jenbekman.com
Presented by: Omar Wasow

Cyber guru

Rising Star – 2007

Sara Terry

Sara Terry

Founder, The Aftermath Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping photojournalists document the aftermath of conflict.


theaftermathproject.org
Presented by: Sherman Teichman

Director, Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University will present award to Sara.

Rising Star – 2006

Brian Clamp

Brian Clamp

Owner, ClampArt, New York


Presented by: William (W.M.) Hunt

Photography collector, curator and consultant

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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