Susan Spiritus
Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Juror for two categories: FINE ART & PORTRAIT for PROfessional and Non-Professional work

Susan Spiritus has been a leader in the field of fine art photography for over thirty years, opening the doors to her Southern California gallery in 1976 so that she could share her passion for photography with others.

Today, the gallery handles the work of over fifty artists including photographic luminaries Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Eikoh Hosoe, André Kertész, and George Tice.

Also represented are many of today’s most popular and award-winning contemporary artists including Roman Loranc, Camille Seaman, Hiroshi Watanabe, Susan Burnstine, Cara Barer, Danae Faillers and Adrian Roland Davis in addition to several emerging artists.

The gallery works with private collectors, corporations and design professionals providing personalized counsel in order to address each client’s individual needs.

Whether a first time buyer or a prolific collector, the gallery has something for everyone. Art ranges in price, style and type including platinum, silver, hand-colored and digital. Custom framing can be arranged. Artwork can be shipped anywhere in the world.

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Stephen Perloff
Founder, The Photo Review, Philadelphia, PA
Juror for two categories: TRAVEL/LANDSCAPE & NATURE/SCENIC
for PROfessional and Non-Professional work

Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of national scope and international readership. Publishing since 1976, the Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country. Stephen is also editor of The Photograph Collector. Since 1980, collectors, curators and dealers have relied on The Photograph Collector monthly newsletter. the leading source of information on the photography art market. A respected writer, educator and photographer, he's been interviewed for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Bucks County Courier Times, and Art Matters and has received two critic's fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Stephen's photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions and reside in many museum and private collections. His work was recently included in the exhibition "The Silver Garden" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Stephen has curated more than a score of exhibitions into 2010, including "Philadelphia Past and Present" at the Philadelphia Art Alliance for the city's tricentennial in 1982. He was the curator of the acclaimed series "Photography: Contemporary Prospect" at Historic Yellow Springs (1994-2001). And he curated the exhibition "Camera Work: A Centennial Celebration," which opened at the James A. Michener Art Museum in September 2003 and traveled through January 2005. He curated an exhibition of environmentally-concerned photographs, "Paradise Paved," for the Painted Bride Art Center (April-May 2005), "Radical Vision: The Revolution in American Photography, 1945-1980" at the James A. Michener Art Museum (January-May 2006). In the past Stephen has been a juror for the 2006 Women In Photography International's 25th Anniiversary competition and the WIPI 2008 competition.

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Elyse Connolly
Elyse Connolly Photography Representative, New York City
Juror for two categories: BEAUTY/FASHION and EDITORIAL/JOURNALISM, for PROfessional and Non-Professional work

Elyse Connolly’s unlikely path in photography began as a model-booking agent at Zoli. Though she would soon be managing the Men’s Division for that agency, it was her work editing model and photographer portfolios that convinced her to leave Zoli after six years and begin a new career as a photographer's agent. In 1980 she began representing Rudy Molacek, whose work for GQ and Vogue helped forge relationships that last to this day. Elyse then took on Susan Schacter, who soon became known for her celebrity portraits and work with Calvin Klein.

Connolly's business has changed and grown quite dramatically since then, though the aim of providing art directors, creative directors and account reps with the best possible way to cultivate an image, nurture a concept, or promote a vision has not. Elyse Connolly Inc. now represents Peggy Sirota, Melanie Acevedo, David Prince, John Huba, Francesco Lagnesse, and Jim Cooper. All of these artists have left their marks on the fashion, lifestyle, celebrity, and still life categories, often producing iconic images for campaigns including The Gap, Banana Republic, Volvo, American Express, T-Mobile, Got Milk, and Cover Girl as well as memorable portraits for GQ, More Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire. These images are often copied, but rarely duplicated.

For much of the past 30 years Elyse has been sharing her insights with industry peers while providing sound advice and good counsel to those new to the business. Though anyone can take a picture, Elyse has helped a generation of industry professionals understand the importance of taking a great photograph.



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