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Call for Entries: The Young Architects Forum (YAF) Atlanta Chapter First Annual Photography Completion

Digital Photography Daily participant  Shelly-Anne Tulia Scott , YAF Photography Competition Chair informed me of a wonderful photography competition.  Many of us are interested in architectural photography, and this competition is aimed at the student and professional photographer.

ATLANTA, GA –The Young Architects Forum (YAF) Atlanta Chapter is excited to announce that they are launching the first Annual Photography Completion with the theme YAF10 –Envisioning Breuer. This event is a part of YAF’s commitment to the great architecture in Atlanta.  It is these types of events that encourages us to publish Digital Photography Daily. Read on for more info!

All photographs must have an architectural theme or contain some element of the built environment. Entries will be accepted from now until August 16th for Professional Entries and until September 15th for Amateur entries. Prices to be announced! This YAF competition aims to challenge photographers to creatively capture images of the Atlanta Central Library designed by Marcel Breuer, which is located at 1 Margaret Mitchell Square, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Photographers will have an opportunity to showcase their talent at demonstrating thought-provoking and visually innovative images. The winning photos will be displayed at the 2010 YAF Photography Exhibit in October as part of the Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) events and at select library locations through January 2011.

As part of the opening reception there will be a feature lecture by Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Julian was educated in Great Britain and moved to this country in 1992 to pursue a curatorial career. For more than decade he worked with the photographs collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Cox has organized numerous exhibitions on subjects ranging from the dawn of photography’s invention in Europe in the 19th century, to contemporary practice in the United States. Guest jurors include Tony Casadonte gallery director at Lumière who prior to this managed a leading commercial photography laboratory in the Southeast; John Szabo Director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System and Bob Gatje who was a partner in the architecture firm of Marcel Breuer and worked alongside Marcel Breuer for 23 years, in three new York offices and established the Paris office in 1964.

About Young Architects Forum

Young Architects Forum (YAF) Atlanta, initially assembled by Ben Brewer, Jr., FAIA (previous AIA President), is a component of both the AIA Atlanta Chapter, and the YAF National. The YAF National was organized to address issues of particular importance to recently licensed architects (within 10 years or less after licensure). Since 1989, YAF has been promoting the development of national and regional programs that further nurture young architects and encouraging the continuous growth of YAF groups within local chapters. Upon AIA Atlanta’s reinvention in 1998 combined with the hard work and dedication of many young architects and architectural interns and with the help of the then AIA Georgia President William Carpenter, FAIA, YAF developed a series of programs and events that has fueled a steady growth pattern and raised the profile of both the YAF and the AIA within the Atlanta design community. The YAF Atlanta, chosen as the national YAF Component of the Year for 2003, is an organization that has now over 150 active members and continues to expand the programming for its members.

Please visit the competition website at: http://www.photography.yafatlanta.org/home and please support their efforts!

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