2025 PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
Jurors: Katie Clifford
First Prize: Two Month Solo Exhibition in our downtown gallery located in the Railyard Arts District, and $2,500 in Cash and Prizes: $1,000 Cash Prize, $1,000 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab, and $500 stipend towards delivering the work to the gallery and having the work returned to the artist as well as an online portfolio featured on our website.
Second Prize: $500 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab, two month online gallery show featured on our website.
The 2025 First Place Award winner is Federico Estol with his series 'SHINE HEROES' . The Second Place Award winner is Matt Eich with his series ‘The Invisible Yoke, Volume IV: We, the Free’. The four honorable mentions are Debmalya Choudhuri, Zuya Yang, Ryle Yazzie and Naohiro Maeda.
About the Juror:
Katie Clifford is the editorial director at GOST Books. Prior to GOST, she was an editor at Aperture Foundation and has also held positions with photographer Elliott Erwitt, HotShoe magazine, Eric Franck Fine Art and the Norman Parkinson Archive. She holds an MA in Photography (Historical and Contemporary) from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.
2024 PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
Jurors: Alex Harris and Bill Shapiro
First Prize: Two Month Solo Exhibition in our downtown gallery located in the Railyard Arts District, and $2,500 in Cash and Prizes: $1,000 Cash Prize, $1,000 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab, and $500 stipend towards delivering the work to the gallery and having the work returned to the artist as well as an online portfolio featured on our website.
Second Prize: $500 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab, two month online gallery show featured on our website, 3 prints in our gallery art rack
The 2024 First Place Award winner is Rebecca Moseman with her series 'The Irish Travelers, A Forgot People' . The Second Place Award winner is Eric Kunsman with his series 'Life-Lines Throughout the United States’. The five honorable mentions are Bryan Birks, Edwin Carungay, Ave Pildas, and Laurie Smith.
2023 AWARD
Jurors: Ed and Deanna Templeton
First Prize: Two Month Solo Exhibition in our downtown gallery located in the Railyard Arts District, and $2,500 in Cash and Prizes: $1,000 Cash Prize, $1,000 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab, and $500 stipend towards delivering the work to the gallery and having the work returned to the artist as well as an online portfolio featured on our website.
Second Prize: $500 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab, two month online gallery show featured on our website, 3 prints in our gallery art rack
The 2023 First Place Award winner is Ciro Battiloro with his series 'Sanità'. The Second Place Award winner is Matthew Hayes with his series 'Magic City'. The six honorable mentions are Jim Brozek, Justin Carney, Dan Mcgarrah, Rebecca Moseman, Jenna Mulhall-Brereton, and Tim Smith.
About the Jurors:
Ed Templeton (b.1972) is an American painter and photographer whose work reflects human behavior with emphasis on youth subcultures, religious affectation, and suburban conventions using a cinéma vérité approach embracing chance encounters. Templeton is a respected cult figure in the subculture of skateboarding, a two-time world-champion, and Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee. Website: ed-templeton.com
Deanna Templeton (b. 1969) Lives and works in Southern
California. Is an American photographer known for her
documentary and serial work exploring youth culture and
feminine identity. She has published six books
2022 AWARD
Juror: Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
First Prize: $2500 Cash Prize, Solo Exhibition June 3rd – July 27th, 2022, and $500 Gift Certificate to Visions Photo Lab
Second Prize: $500 Cash Prize and 2 month online exhibition
The 2022 First Place Award winner is Renee Romero with her "Moments in Motherhood" series. Second Place Award winner Karey Walter with her Kudzu Series. The four honorable mentions are José Castrellón, Ana Espinal, Lingxue Hao, and Fiona Howarth.
About the Juror:
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, born into the Bear Clan of the Taskigi Nation, born for
Tsi’naajinii of the Dine’ Nation, adopted into the Eagle House of Metlakatla, adopted in
to the Killer Whale Fin House of Klukwan.
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is known nationally and internationally as a multimedia artist creating portraiture/social commentary works. In addition to creative works, Tsinhnahjinnie served as a board member or advisor on the following organizations, American Indian Contemporary Arts, Intertribal Friendship House, Gay American Indians, Native American Advisory Committee DeYoung Museum, and is currently serving as Vice President for the Native American Art Studies Association.
2021 AWARD (First Annual)
Juror: Harry Gamboa Jr.
First Prize: $1000 Cash Prize, Solo Exhibition August 6th – September 30th, 2021
Second Prize: $500 Cash Prize and 2 month online exhibition
Jerry Takigawa is the First Annual Photography Award Winner with his Balancing Cultures body of work surrounding Executive Order 9066, which mandated the incarceration of 120,000 American citizens and legal residents of Japanese ancestry. 2nd Place Award Winner Lily Colman with her series examining the ideals and beliefs around marriage. Six Honorable Mentions: Rashod Taylor, Katie Shapiro, Jiayi Jiang, Oscar Ochoa, Ruben Esparza, and Amelia Borja.
About the Juror:
Harry Gamboa Jr. is the founder and director of Virtual Vérité (2005-2017), the international performance troupe. He is a co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), the Los Angeles-based performance group. He is Co-Director of the Photo/Media Program at California Institute of the Arts. He is a lecturer with the Chicana/o Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.
Harry Gamboa Jr. has been exhibited by museums + galleries + art spaces nationally/internationally
