Street nominee

These street portraits were taken with the subjects’ consent on Main Street in the heart of downtown Hartford, Connecticut (U.S.). Hartford is the capital of the State; it is also the largest and poorest municipality in the State. The people in these photographs were indeed “Street Lights” that drew me to them for varying reasons. The young mother in the second photo, “Mom with a Warning Label,” was wearing a top emblazoned with the sentence: “I’m the girl your mother warned you about.” The man on crutches seems to imply some sustained damage. The man on the motorcycle in the third photo here seemed made for his powerful vintage vehicle and vice versa. It was difficult for me to leave out other street stars here.

Sloan Scholar for the Humanities at the University of Michigan; received MFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Received various Prizes, Honorable Mentions, or Prize Nominations in the international Fine Art Photography Awards (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019); International Photography Awards (2023, 2022, 2015); International COLOR Awards (2023, 2022, 2021); reFocus Color Photography Awards (2023); reFocus World Photo Annual Awards (2023); and Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards (2023). Work selected (multiple times each) for numerous juried exhibitions of the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), PhotoPlace Gallery (Middlebury, VT), Praxis Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Black Box Gallery (Portland, OR), The Atlanta Photography Group Gallery (Atlanta, GA), A Smith Gallery (TX), and other venues. Photographs published in F-Stop Magazine, The Photo Review (Annual International Competition issue); COLOR Magazine (Merit Award), Shadow & Light Magazine, and other publications.