First Place Beginner / Middle School Still Life - Allison Peterman - The Cambridge School of Dallas (Dallas)
Third Place Advanced Formal Portrait - Edie Peffley Foster HS (Richmond, TX)
Third Place Beginner / Middle School Cell Phone/Smartphone Cassandra Arrigotti - Round Rock HS (Round Rock, TX) First Place Beginner / Middle School Digitally Constructed Single Images Ryleigh Tupper - O’Gorman HS (Sioux Falls, SD)
First Place Advanced Sports Action - Devin Duffie - Richland R-1 School (Essex, MO)
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2020
FALL CONTEST WINNERS Second Place Advanced Formal Portrait - Jerry Zhao - St. Mark’s School of Texas (Dallas)
First Place Faculty Single Image - Kate Philbrick - Episcopal HS (Bellaire, TX)
First Place Advanced Documentary/Street Photography - Noelle Griffin - Shawnee Mission East HS (Prairie Village, KS)
First Place Beginner / Middle School Sports Reaction - Jacob Herrera - Cypress Ranch HS (Cypress, TX)
Judging for the 2020 Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest took place virtually in Zoom on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. The four judges - Zach Hetrick, Kenda North, Mark Olson and Judy Walgren - spent nine hours judging more than 4,500 entries from 92 schools. The entries came from schools across Texas, plus California, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Our congratulations go out to the winners and to all of the students and teachers who chose to enter this year.
BEST OF SHOW
First Place Advanced Digitally Constructed Single Images - Nick Kyriakides-Crowe - The Kinkaid School (Houston)
Second Place Advanced Informal-Environmental Portrait - Greer Giles - Memorial HS (Houston)
Advanced Olivia McKeever John Paul II High School Plano, Texas Kristy Rodgers, instructor Beginner / Middle School Daniela Ruiz Ben Barber Innovation Academy Mansfield, Texas Shannon Oden, instructor Faculty Ian McVea James Martin High School Arlington, Texas
First Place Advanced Fashion - Jessica Mansur - The Woodlands HS (Spring, TX)
First Place Beginner / Middle School Time Exposure - Jamie Mitchell - Sonoma Valley HS (Sonoma, CA)
Best of Show Beginner / Middle School - Daniela Ruiz - Ben Barber Innovation Academy (Mansfield, TX)
Best of Show Faculty - Ian McVea - James Martin HS (Arlington, TX)
First Place Advanced Landscape - Payton Cunningham - Robert G Cole HS (San Antonio, TX)
Best of Show Advanced - Olivia McKeever - John Paul II HS (Plano, TX)
L-R: First Place Beginner / Middle School Architecture/City Scape - Renil Gupta - St. Mark’s School of Texas (Dallas); First Place Beginner / Middle School Formal Portrait - Miya Tanizaki - James Martin HS (Arlington, TX); First Place Beginner / Middle School Travel - Gavin Folsom - Magnolia HS (Magnolia, TX); First Place Faculty Portfolio - Earl Emery - Cypress Ranch HS (Cypress, TX); First Place Advanced Animals - Peyton Sims - Texas HS (Texarkana, TX); First Place Beginner / Middle School Nature - Carley Lardizabal - Lamar MS Fine Arts Academy (Austin, TX)
Advanced students have had at least one year of high school photography instruction. Beginner / Middle school students are either in their first year of a high school program or a middle school student. See all winning images at atpi.smugmug.com.