Photo Centre Spotlights Member Photos

Linh M. Trinh, Humming Birds

(PRESS RELEASE)_Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s 25th Annual MEMBERS’ SHOW will display 99 stunning images from 38 members, including:

+ Six from West Palm Beach (Brian Austin, Beverley Caparella, Susan Klein, Judith A. Mugrace, Ted Tribolati, and Mary Jane Zapp);
+ Six from Wellington (Laura Darzentas, Alan Fabricant, Giada Robinson, Sherry M. Stephens, Laura Tracey, and Nancy Youtsey);
+ Three from Palm Beach Gardens (Christine Brunner, Louis Mark, and Marilyn Samwick);
+ Two from Delray Beach (Robert Kalmanson and Ann Purcell Tiernan);
+ Two from Boca Raton (Brian Bibbee and McKenzie Williams);
+ And one each from Boynton Beach (Peter Collins), Lake Worth (Robert Wiley), Palm Beach (Anita Seltzer), Palm Springs (Linh M. Trinh), Royal Palm Beach (Anita Warnet), and Stuart (Louis Foubare), as well as from Glendale, CA, Winnetka, IL and Toronto, Canada.
 
The Juror for the 25th Annual MEMBERS’ SHOW is Scott Mc Kiernan, a photojournalist who became a media industry pioneer and leader. Leadership of ZUMA Press, as well as decades of wide-ranging experience in photography, has proven to be instrumental in establishing the world’s largest independent editorial photo agency. In 1993, he launched the net’s first online downloadable database for editorial pictures. A quarter-century later, ZUMA is the agent to the world’s most respected photographers (3,000+), newspapers (300+), photo agencies (90+) and national wire services (30+) and over 50+ million images online moving 30K important images daily to every country in the world. 2016 Mc Kiernan won NPPA’s prestigious Jim Gordon Editor of the Year Award, for DOUBLEtruck Magazine and zReportage.com. Most recently, Mc Kiernan awarded a Society of Professional Journalists Picture Editor award and was a Communication Arts 2019 winner for his stellar photography of the 2018 Winter Olympics. He is a proud member of the Board of the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.
 
A Best of Show cash prize of $950 will be awarded, as will two Merit Awards for free tuition for a FOTOfusion Passport or a Master Workshop. This year’s winners will be announced at the exhibition’s live opening reception on September 1 at 6 pm.
 
Now on Exhibit at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre
The New Normal:
COVID Times
Running Through July 31
 
Culled from the 2021 edition of The Year in Pictures 2020: Apocalypse NOW, the acclaimed annual movie produced by the founder of ZUMA Wire Service, Scott Mc Kiernan, who also curated this exhibition of award-winning photography by ZUMA Press photojournalists from around the world. This exhibition presents the “Pictures of the Year” in sports, entertainment and news—the visual story of 2020, starting at the beginning of The Lost Year, and running all the way to the final days of Limbo Year. The exhibition features more than 60 top award-winning pictures by photojournalists worldwide.

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