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  • Honorable Mention in 2022 Mobile Photography Awards

    Honorable Mention in 2022 Mobile Photography Awards

    They announced the 2022 MPA (Mobile Photography Awards) recently and I was ecstatic to receive an honorable mention for “Within Reach.” I’m so very thankful. Read more

  • Selected for “Your Dream is You 2022” Exhibition

    Selected for “Your Dream is You 2022” Exhibition

    I just found out today that I was selected for the 2022 “Your Dream is You” exhibition. This is the second year of the exhibition and they intend to make it an annual one. Last year it was to be held in Istanbul, but Covid forced the exhibition online and they’ve decided to keep the Read more

  • Two Honorable Mentions in Mobile Photography Awards!

    Two Honorable Mentions in Mobile Photography Awards!

    I entered the Mobile Photography Awards (MPAs)–one of the most important and prestigious events in the mobile photography /art world– for the first time in 2020. I was gobsmacked to find that I received an honorable mention. As I wrote in an earlier blog, I had looked at the MPAs over the years for inspiration Read more

  • On the Brink of Love

    On the Brink of Love

    This piece, “within reach,” began with me looking back at the “past lives” series I had created not too long before. I was looking at the characters in the series and decided I would explore aspects of the same story even if it was with different characters. As usual, when I started I didn’t have Read more

  • Hope in Dark Times

    Hope in Dark Times

    I created “the lost bouquet” in August. A friend, after seeing it, asked me if I was okay. Several works before had appeared cheerier. I told her I was doing fine. “the lost bouquet” isn’t about grief or loss. It’s about hope in that darkness. It’s about the growth that happens when we can’t see Read more

  • New Life Exhibition in Cagliari, Italy!

    New Life Exhibition in Cagliari, Italy!

    I felt honored to have “the next phase: trust” exhibited in “The New Life Exhibition” in September at the Fondazione per l’arte Bartoli Felter, in Cagliari (Sardinia), Italy! Recently I’ve been using butterflies in lots of my images. I see them as a representation of new life, of starting again after the ravages of Covid Read more