Exciting News! Contact competition victory!

It took me more than a week to absorb the reality of last weeks Monday at the Portfolio Reviews at the Gladstone Hotel organized by Contact. It has been an intensely busy time ever since with several portraits to shoot on location, one of whom was Andrea Horwath at the Queen’s Park and Linda Montgomery, an amazing artist at her studio up in Orangeville. I had to be up at 5am on Wednesday last week to photograph the Radio-thon with 98.1 CHFI for Shelter from the Storm and it was amazing, but by 11am no amount of coffee was helping anymore and all I wanted was to get really close to my pillow! And in the midst of all of this I am working on a grant proposal and trying to see as much what Contact has to offer as possible.

So you see, grasping the excitement of receiving one of the two fantastic prizes the reviewers at the Contact Portfolio Reviews have chosen me for is still like dream to me. It will be a busy year for me coming up! The prize includes a solo show with Contact a year from now! All I can say is THANK YOU to Contact! You guys are amazing! You create amazing opportunities for us with all your hard work! And THANK you to all of the reviewers, I will not disappoint you! Congratulations to Alex Kisilevich and  Adam Krawesky, my fellow photographers and winners, your work is beautiful!

Some of the images from my “I am Elvis” series have just been added to the Contact website, check them out! http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/portfolio-reviews

And if you want to see more of my work, please join me at the Spoke Club on May 26th at 7 pm for a drink. I will be showing and talking about my work along with 9 other photographers as a part of the “PechaKuchaNight Canada”

http://www.pechakuchanight.com/

See you there!