After pitting their photos against other students from across the globe, six EC students will have their work featured in the book, “Best of College & High School Photography 2012,” Darilyn Rowan, photography professor, said.
The photographers featured in the book placed in the top 10 percent of a competition that had 16,000 entries from all over the world and was judged by several prestigious photography professionals, Rowan said.
EC students featured in the publication include:
Joseph Clausen, Patricia Kim, Robert Long, Gloria Plascencia and Jason Riney, Rowan said.
“Being featured in the publication is a very big deal in the photography community, since Photographer’s Forum’s contest is world renown,” Rowan said.
“As an artist, being recognized in the publication is a great honor,” Long, 29, photography major said. “It’s motivation to know that if you keep doing something that you love doing, eventually you will be one of the best and be the best that you can be.”
Long said this was the second year he had entered the contest, but his first time being published in the book; he had also been featured in the EC Myriad recently.
Long said that he intends to submit an entry into the contest next year and is confident in his repeated success. He added that he plans to continue improving himself and getting closer to becoming a professional photographer.
“I see myself owning my own studio and hiring other photographers to do other types of work,” Long said.
Plascencia, 52, photography major, said that this is her third time being featured in the book. She said it is great to be published, but that she still remains focused on being published as a professional photographer rather than as a student.
Plascencia said that she is a fine art photographer who specializes in photographing natural landscapes, but that she is excited about a current project in which she portrays someone who is homeless in self-portraits.
“I like to tell a story with my images,” Placencia said. “I can find art anywhere I go.”
