The Student Awards program for 2009 is under way. We have three wonderful jurors for the students, David H. Wells, David Lowe, and Kathleen Duxburg-Yeaw. This coming event will be bigger and better than ever before, with a weeklong exhibition of the students work at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo on 22nd Street.

In addition to the exhibition, we will be having a silent auction to help raise funds not only for the student awards but for other PWP projects.

We are working on some very exciting sponsorship and underwriting possibilities and can also use some help in this direction. We have already gotten our 2009 commitment from FujiFilm for support.

Please contact Patricia Gilman for more information and to volunteer.

The applications for the 5th Annual Student Awards will be sent to the schools the second week in September. New this year will be a week long exhibit of the students work. As is customary with this event, the prizes will be awarded at the reception, to be held on March 23, 20009 from 6-9PM at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photographic 21 West 22nd Street in New York City. Sponsors for the event include FujiFilm USA, who has generously supported the event for the past 5 years.

The Jurors for PWP’s 2009 Student Awards are:

David H. Wells, a free-lance documentary photographer affiliated with Aurora Photos. His work has been in over fifty exhibitions and he has taught workshops at the International Center for Photography in NYC and at the Maine Photographic Workshops.

Kathleen Duxbury-Yeaw, working in Infrared (IR) spectrum, her images are an artistic interpretation of the "invisible light" found on her treks through Europe and North America. "Seeking the Invisible Light," a recent selection from her IR collection, will be on exhibit at the Cottage Place Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ during the month of November 2008.

David Lowe is the Assistant to the Photography Curator at the New York Public Library. He received his MFA from Pratt Institute (2000) and has exhibited internationally. He is the Photography Specialist for the New York Public Library.