Without further ado, here are the winners of My Atlanta 2011, chosen by our faithfull judges, Jerry Cullum, and Chris Mihal & Joeff Davis from Creative Loafing. There were seven hundred and thirty-six entries this year, representing three hundred and twenty-four photographers! Come see the winners, and all of the entries this Saturday – we’ll be open at 9am.

Youth, 12 & Under
1st Place: Royce Mann
2nd Place: Kennedy Lollis – Woodward Middle School
3rd Place: Gabrielle Salazar – Red Wall Studio

Teens, 13-18 Years Old
1st Place: Colin Shaw – Paideia School
2nd Place: Lindsey Barch – Woodward
3rd Place: Ike Oedel – Paideia

Best School: Paideia School

Adults, 19 & Over
1st Place: Angela Georges
2nd Place: Krik Lalor
3rd Place: David McKenzie

Seniors
1st Place: Steven Waldschmidt
2nd Place: Bill Grimm – West Cobb Senior Center
3rd Place: Marie Louise Williams – Lou Walker Senior Center

Best Use of Color: Michael Shaefer
Best Use of Black and White: Rebecca Dickerson – Druid Hills High School
Viewer’s Choice: Gilly Levy – Holy Innocent’s
Critic’s Choice: Kelsey Sasser – Holy Innocent’s

In case you missed a copy of the print edition, Creative Loafing posted a web version of their long look at My Atlanta, and the participating artists who make it great!

Thanks again to all the participants in this year’s record-breaking My Atlanta, and to Creative Loafing for their support this year!

It was a beautiful day on Saturday for the opening of My Atlanta at the Piedmont Park Community Center. 713 photographs were entered this year, breaking last year’s record! Our friends from Creative Loafing were on hand to judge the exhibition, and they picked the following winners:

Best school went to Woodward Academy.

In the 12 and under category:
1st place went to Adam Shi, an independent entry
2nd place went to Sussannah Bakke from Woodward Academy Middle School
3rd place went to Arielle Sterrett from Baker Elementary School

In the 13-18 year old category:
1st place went to Lindsay Rohrer from Woodward Academy
2nd place went to Julie Rodriguez from the Wesleyan school
3rd place went to Meredith Campis from Grady High School

In the 19+ Adult category:
1st place went to Marla Puziss
2nd and 3rd place went to Jacquelyn Foster-Rice

In the Senior Center category:
First place goes to Jim Rooks of the North Cobb Center
Second place goes to Carol Feenan of the West Cobb Center
Third place goes to Luis Pita of the Lou Walker Center

Best use of B&W went to Paula Harding of Grady High School
Viewer’s Choice went to Gina Williams of Phoenix High School
Critic’s Choice went to Adam Shi, an independent entry
Best use of Color went to P. Seth Thompson

Have a look in the slideshow!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

If you’re interested in self-publishing your own photobook for this year’s ACP Photobook Fair (during My Atlanta at Piedmont Park on Oct. 23rd) you might want to check out this workshop at Serenbe. More info at serenbephotographycenter.com.

Last year was the first year of our Photobook Fair, as part of My Atlanta at Piedmont Park. It’s a great time to start preparing your work for October, and we’re planning on having the Photobook Fair on Saturday, October 23rd, 2010.

One of the more popular print-on-demand services, Blurb offers screencasts, webinars and tutorials that can help you get started if you’ve never printed your own book before. Have a look!

A quick look at the inaugural year of the My Atlanta Photo Book Fair which was a great Saturday morning in Piedmont Park. Big thanks to Bill Boling, Sam Dobrow, Margery Diamond & Mario DiGirolamo for their interest and participation. We look forward to seeing you next year!

ACP 11 My Atlanta Photo Book Fair (Inaugural Event) from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.

Jerry Cullum judged our “open-to-all” push-pin exhibition “My Atlanta” yesterday, and here are his picks:

Best School went to Parkview High School

In the 12 and under category:
1st place went to Sam Roberts from Woodward Academy Middle School
2nd place went to Tiffani Bennett from Baker Elementary School
3rd place went to Madison Kemp from Baker Elementary School

In the 13-18 year old category:
1st place went to Megan Varner from Woodward Academy
2nd place went to Katie Tabachnick from Woodward Academy Middle School
3rd place went to Josh Cohen from Woodward Academy Middle School

1st Place – Adults: William Hogan
2nd Place – Adults: Meagan Manning
3rd Place – Adults: Tameka Pero

1st Place – Seniors: Luis Pita
2nd Place – Seniors: Eugene McFarlin
3rd Place – Seniors: Albert Garigan

Best use of Color went to Andrew Whited from the Wesleyan School
Best use of B&W went to Regina White from Grady High School
Viewer’s choice award went to Arielle Nadel from St. Francis High School
Critic’s Choice went to Hanna Elliott from Woodward Academy

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

A big thank you to ACP Board Member Chuck Young who unfailingly organizes My Atlanta each year, with this year being our biggest year at My Atlanta so far! Thanks so much, Chuck!

If you’re interested in participating in the My Atlanta Book Fair on October 17th, please sign-up and let us know. If you have your book laid-out and ready to print, local printers myphotopipe are offering a discount code for Blurb books.

My Atlanta was abuzz this morning with students and schools and members of the public posting their photographs at the Piedmont Park Community Center.

The boom in self-publishing has been a boon to photographers, who can conceive, edit, and publish dynamic books straight from a laptop. If you’ve self-published your own photo book (via print-on-demand services like Blurb or Lulu), or if you’ve worked with a publisher, we’re looking for you.

In keeping with ACP’s goal of helping photographers promote their work and reach new audiences, we’re holding a Photo Book Fair – a space where photographers can sell their books, on a spirited Saturday morning at Piedmont Park.

Where: Piedmont Park Community Center
When: Saturday October 17th from 9am – 1pm
How: Your table must be reserved before noon on October 5th.
Info: My Atlanta Photo Book Fair – ACP 11 Festival Guide

Sign-up for the ACP 11 My Atlanta Photo Book Fair

(Participation in the book fair is free, however we suggest a $10 donation per photographer to the Piedmont Park Conservancy)

Thank you for your interest!

Check out the winners of the Atlanta Photojournalism Conference (now in its 36th year!). There are a lot of winners in the “Singles” category; one of the winners, Louie Favorite, also won 3rd place in the Adult division at ACP’s My Atlanta with the picture below.

It was a great year for My Atlanta (don’t forget to pick-up your photos this Saturday, Oct 25th, before 1pm!) with more entries than last year, which is fantastic. Here are the winners, in a variety of categories. Each name links to a picture of their photograph. Prizes are on their way!

This year’s judge was Jerry Cullum, Editor at Large for Art Papers and independent critic.

Teens 13-18:
1st – Antigone Langston
2nd – Elizabeth Davis
3rd – Stephanie Gullo

Best School:
Wesleyan

Adults 19+:
1st – Becky Raffalovich
2nd – Jacquelyn Foster-Rice
3rd – Louie Favorite

Senior:
1st – Nancy Mingo
2nd – Leona James
3rd – Frank Bryan

Best Use of Color: Christine Papacsi
Best Use of B&W: Molly Mulcaly
Viewer’s Choice: Bronson Shonk
Critic’s Schoice: Patrick Pilkey

Photo by Louie Favorite

This past Saturday, we opened “My Atlanta”, our public push-pin exhibition, where anyone can come by the Piedmont Park Community Center and post their photo. The exhibition will be judged this week by Jerry Cullum – stay tuned to ACP Now! for news of the winners.

Here’s a quick slideshow of how things look, and here’s a link with hours of operation.

Dawn Wadsworth sent in a picture of her students at Grady High School, who won “Best High School” for their entries in this year’s My Atlanta. Congrats!

My Atlanta was great fun this year, as hundreds of photographers from the area came by and posted their work at the Piedmont Park Community Center. After the first weekend, Jerry Cullum, Senior Editor of Art Papers, spent a few hours looking at all of the entries, and choosing a few select winners.

Here’s what Jerry selected for this year’s theme “Evolution of a City”, and you can see all of this year’s winners from My Atlanta in the ACP photostream on flickr.

Adult 1st Place, Joseph Calloni, Roswell	Seniors 1st Place, Yvonne Zachary
Under 12 1st Place, Swani Vinton	Best Interpretation of Theme, Mark Watkins
Teens 1st Place, Melanie Bobbitt	Best Use of Color, Tucker Blair
Best Use of Black and White, Wes Smith

My Atlanta, ACP’s annual push-pin show in Piedmont Park, has been at the Community Center all month. Open on Saturdays from 9 am – 1 pm, it offers the chance for anyone to post a photograph, and to take a look at photography from a wide spectrum, across the city.

This Saturday (the 27th) is the last day for My Atlanta this year, and photographers are encouraged to come pick-up their work between 1-2:30pm. Here are two views from this month’s installation.

A polaroid transfer demonstration from Gittel Price: