JUDGES
Robert Fields
Robert is a professional photographer from the Thousand Oaks area specializing in fine art photography covering a wide genre of European and international cultures. His work includes portraiture, landscaping and wildlife and custom assignment work for individuals, designers and businesses. Roberts works are displayed around the world and are available on his website and at selected art shows. His most recent work was shown at the Thousand Oaks art festival. When not busy travelling abroad Robert offers photographic instruction and seminars, where the benefits of his over 33 years of photographic experience are shared with others. www.robertfields.com 
Dan Holmes
Dan started his company, Dan Holmes Photo, in June 2003 - and is a multi skilled photographer. His work includes Fine Art Nature & Landscape, Weddings & Events, Commercial, and Photography Workshops. He is a multiple award winner and a contributor to Outdoor Photographer, 805 Magazine, Cycling News, and Ventura Life and Style. Visit www.danholmesphoto.com for more information 
George "Hutch" Hutchinson
George “Hutch” Hutchison primarily shoots for his own pleasure with work ranging across a broad spectrum of genre. He particularly enjoys landscape, action/sports and abstract photography. “Hutch” is an active member of the Channel Islands Professional Photographers, Thousand Oaks Photo Group and serves on the Board of Directors for the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs. Over the years he has received numerous awards and recognition for his photography (see https://www.digitaldaydreaming.com/awards), most recently as a “Top 10” photographer and recipient of the PermaJet USA award for best black & white print at the 2022 Professional Photographers of California competition Visit http://www.digitaldaydreaming.com for more information. 
Lesley Krane
Born in Los Angeles, Lesley Krane earned a B.A. in Art at UCLA and an M.F.A. in Studio Art at the University of New Mexico. She has been teaching Photography in the Art Department at CSUN since 1999 and encourages students to have a reverence and sensitivity for still photography. Lesley’s work has been published in Lightleaks and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes and exhibited at local and national venues, including the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Gerard Burkhart is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in every major national news magazine and newspaper through assignments or via wire services Agence France Presse and Associated Press. Additional work has been circulated through the agencies gettyimages, Polaris and Black Star. He is currently providing editorial and corporate work to gettyimages custom assignments along with other clients. As a photographer with the Los Angeles Times, his photos were a part of three Pulitzer Prize-winning group entries and a fourth group entry Pulitzer Finalist for spot news. As a photographer for the Los Angeles Times, he won First Place for Photo Essay in the 1996 Greater Los Angeles Press Club for a local environmental cleanup story. He was a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Daily News. His North Hollywood Neighborhood Project is a part of the permanent historical photography collection of the Los Angeles Public library, the attorney group O’Melveney and Meyers photo collection and private collectors in the U.S. and Great Britain. He also teaches photojournalism classes at Santa Monica College.
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Christopher Broughton
http://www.christopherbroughton.com Christopher Broughton has over 30 years of extensive photographic experience working professionally with sensitized photographic materials, digital capture media and technology as a photographer, educator, lecturer and exhibitor. Christopher grew up traveling with his family, and at the age of eleven, traveled into the mountains of North Carolina with his mom’s twin lens camera and a single 12 exposure roll of film. He remembers it vividly in this way: “The precious 12 frames were mine to fill with the jewels of summer….. The Quest to visually fill the frame has never stopped” Christopher was educated at Oregon State University and completed both BA and MS in Photography at the Brooks Institute, where he returned later as a faculty member. Christopher quickly became a powerful influence on the famous Brooks Institute both educationally and technologically. He personally transitioned the Institute from traditional silver based technology to digital capture media and technology. His projects and exhibits are many; taking students abroad to study for the past summers, and showing his work in 3 exhibits already in 2017. Christopher’s passion for the art of photography is reflected in his mantra, a quote by Robert Hughes “Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently. It should give us coherent sensations which we otherwise might not have had” 
Nancy Kaye
www.nancykayephotography.com Nancy Kaye is a photographer and educator in L.A., previously based in NYC & London, shooting for The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Associated Press. Her photos have been widely exhibited in juried shows and included in numerous books and documentaries. Her portrait of author Ralph Ellison is in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 1988 Nancy photographed a group of young girls in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood for The NY Times; a generation later she collaborated on a project, “Jump Rope Girls,” documenting the girls’ lives as adults with children of their own, and presented it at Duke University’s Documentary Study Center. She teaches in continuing ed programs at LA Valley College & Santa Monica College, and leads independent street photo workshops, guiding photographers in defining their personal projects. She serves on the board of ASMP-Los Angeles chapter. 
Christopher Zsarnay http://www.zstudios.com/
Christopher Zsarnay has been on the forefront of innovative Commercial Photography since graduating from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1988. Since 1990 Chris has owned and operated Z-Studios. |
