Student Photo Contest Winners

The LBCC Foundation Student Photo Contest was a smashing success. Last Friday evening,
April 3rd, LBCC photo students and staff met at the Mark Anthony Gallery in the East Village Arts District in downtown Long Beach for the opening reception and display of the winners and runners-up of the student photo contest. A big Thank You to all who entered.

Here is a list of the winners:

Best in Show

NADIA SANTA CRUZ

Best Black and White print

1 TETSUJI UEDA

2 RICK MOTZKUS

3 SARAH MAY QUIOCHO

Best Color print

1 KENTA TAKAHASHI

2 CODY MORAND

3 ELAINE TUSIA

Best Alternative Process print

1 HECTOR ANGUIANO

2 LUCKS NORTH

3 KYM CLARK

Freestyle Scholars Award for Black and White Silver Photography

1 GUSTAVO TORRES

2 ANA BRASIL BRUM

3 HECTOR GONZALEZ

Ilford/Harman CrystalJet Prize

1 LUCANO MEIRCLLES

2 TRAVIS GAYLER

3 LINETTE SHARROW

High School Photo Contest Winners

1 SHAVEENA GARDNER/BELLFLOWER HIGH

2 HOUCK BABIJ/ POLY HIGH

3 JANET/ BELLFLOWER HIGH


Thanks to Linette Sharrow for the photos.

PhotoFest@LBCC 2009 - Register Now!

Registration for this year's PhotoFest is now open.

Fresh off of the success of our first PhotoFest last spring, the Photography Department at Long Beach City College will be hosting PhotoFest 09 @ LBCC on April 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. 2009. The 2nd annual PhotoFest@LBCC will be held in Long Beach, California with 4 days of free photography-related events and celebrations. The festival will bring together a wide array of accomplished photographers from Southern California and will showcase the work of renowned photographic artists and photojournalists. Our goal is to celebrate photography and it’s impact on our world.

The main emphasis of the festival will be the workshops, demonstrations and seminars held over the four-day period. These events are free, open to students and the general public as well, and are suitable for all levels of expertise.

As we said before, it's free, but you must register. Some workshops are limited in space, so sign up early.

Use this link to visit our Festival blog for more information and registration.

Photo Contest Winners

Congratulations to Justin Renshaw for winning "Best in Show" in this year's Spring Photo Contest. The Gallery opening was held Saturday, April 19 at a funky upstairs gallery in the Arts district in downtown Long Beach. A great time was had by all. Congratulations to the winners:
Best in Show Justin Renshaw
Color
First Place Jacob Greenlund
Second Place Rozlynn Fattaleu
Third Place Natashi Rossi
Black and White
First Place Andrea P. Saenz
Second Place Norma Padilla
Third Place Joshua Rayburn
Alternative Processes
First Place John N. Fouts
Second Place TeNesha Mosley
Third Place Jonathan Ramirez

Freestyle Scholars Award for Black and White Silver Photography.
First Place Nick Motzkus
Second Place Andrea P. Saenz
Third Place Oscar Alcaraz

You should also check out the ART STUDENT ART exhibit in the art gallery at the LAC campus. This is a student show featuring all of the art departments with the photography program well represented. Check out the pics below (Justin's Grand Prize photo contest winner is the large night-shot in the center of the first photo).

Naked Clowns on Unicycles! PhotoFest a Smash!

The first annual PhotoFest@LBCC turned out to be a smashing success. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen, and thanks to everyone who attended. Three days of workshops, portfolio reviews and hands-on workshops ended Thursday evening with an eclectic panel of noted photographers talking about their projects and a round table discussion afterwards. The main theme that all four photographers could agree on was to GET OUT AND SHOOT! Unleash your passion for photography and the ideas will come (even ideas about naked clowns on unicycles!). It was a very inspiring evening.

Join us this Saturday for the Gallery opening and the Student Photo Show awards. It will take place from 6pm to 10pm at at the Mark Anthony Gallery, 441 East First St., Long Beach CA 90802.

Keynote Event: The Photographic Project

Unless you've been asleep for the past few months, you've realized that we're having a Photography Festival here at the college. One of the events that I'd strongly like to encourage you to attend is our Keynote Event: The Photographic Project.
This semester I've been teaching Photo 38: Marketing Professional Photography Skills. The most interesting part of the class is our visits and discussions with working photographers. Our Keynote Event is basically just that. You're going to get the opportunity to listen (and speak) to a very diverse group of individuals discuss how they are making a life in photography. Each one of them has had a very different journey and I think that's what makes photography such an interesting field.
My biggest goal with the Festival was to give us all a greater sense of the love and passion that photographers have for their work. I know that experience can easily get lost as you sit in a classroom during the regular semester, so here's a chance to get inspired!

Keynote Event: The Photographic Project, Thursday April 17th, 6pm
PhotoFest@LBCC

Best to all,
Ann Mitchell

PhotoFest@LBCC is coming this spring!

The first annual PhotoFest@LBCC will be held in Long Beach, California with 4 days of photography-related events and celebrations on April 15, 16, 17th and 19th. The festival will bring together a wide array of accomplished photographers from Southern California and will showcase the work of renowned photographic artists and photojournalists. Our goal is to celebrate photography and it’s impact on our world. (Photo by Mitch Maher)

Check out the PhotoFest website at:

http://lbccphotofest.blogspot.com/