2014 Online Photography Show Awards

The 2014 Tri-Cities Online Photography and Digital Arts Show, hosted by the Student Art Fund of the Santa Barbara Art Association, is honored to present ribbons of Outstanding Artistic Merit to the following artists. This year we are pleased to have Angela Allan as the juror for the show.

Ribbon of Outstanding Artistic Merit

Artist: Ryan Green

Media: Photography

School: Dos Pueblos High School

Teacher: Jacqueline Kelemen

Artist’s Statement: Petals, This is a photo I took during my travels around the world. My focus is to show the hidden beauty in the world, and that is why photography is my passion.

Ribbon of Outstanding Artistic Merit

Artist: Maryam Hanachi

Media: Photography

School:  San Marcos High School

Teacher: Michelle Rainville

Artists Statement: I gathered everything that made my season great that year and tried to capture it in a way that expresses how proud I felt. I think the lighting of the photo is essential because it intensifies the photo.

Ribbon of Outstanding Artistic Merit

Artist: Natalie Poiré

Media: Photography

School: San Marcos High School

Teacher: Michelle Rainville

Artist’s Statement: Dragonfly: This was taken at the LA Zoo. I was trying to take a picture of some swans when I saw this guy perched on the wire and took a photo.

Ribbon of Outstanding Artistic Merit

Artist: Emma Trumbull

Media: Photography

School: Dos Pueblos High School

Teacher: Diana Hemsley

Artist’s Statement: I created a diptych of reflective photos from the harbor. It is an abstract of lines.

Ribbon of Outstanding Artistic Merit

Artist: Kendall Weaver

Media: Photography

School: Dos Pueblos High School

Teacher: Kevin Gleason

Artist’s Statement: Self Portrait Scan, This is a self portrait I made of myself by putting my face on a scanner. I experimented with the scanner and the position of my face several times before achieving this photo. Putting my face on the glass surface of the scanner gave the photo a surreal underwater effect that I really enjoyed— the contrast between the sharpness of my hair and fingers and the blurriness of the features further in the background adds an interesting and almost dreamlike effect to the work.