CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat

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CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat – LENSCRATCH

CENTER’s Gallerist’s Choice Juror, Lauren Panzo is the Director at Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York.  Lauren selected Bryan Schtmaat to recieved the 1st place Award for his evocative project, Grays the Mountain Sends. Tomorrow we will feature 2nd and 3rd place winners Brandon Thibodeaux and Donna J. Wan. Lauren shared these comments about the juroring: There were many

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/04/center-awards-gallerists-choice-awards/

This project combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in a series of photos that explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West. Equipped with a large format view camera, and inspired by the poetry of Richard Hugo, I’ve aimed to hint at narratives and relay the experiences of strangers met in settings that spur my own emotions