Jurors

Elizabeth Avedon is an independent curator and photo consultant. As former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, Art Director for Ralph Lauren Media and Creative Director for The Gere Foundation, Elizabeth has received awards and recognition for her exhibition design and publishing projects, including; Richard Avedon: In the American West for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the High Museum, among others; and exhibitions for the Leica Gallery, New York; the Menil Collection, Houston; and for the Estate of Diane Arbus. She has been a contributor to L’oeil de la Photographie / The Eye of Photograph since 2014, profiling notable professionals in the world of photography. Along with leading advanced photo-editing and book design workshops, Elizabeth continues as an instructor n the Masters in Digital Photography program at the School of Visual Arts, New York and received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Griffin Museum of Photography. 

Bruce Dunbar is a Hudson Valley based artist working in the expanded field of photography, moving effortlessly between lens-based and cameraless processes to explore the intersections of the natural world and light-sensitive materials. Through experimental and alternative photographic techniques, his practice investigates states of flux, processes of change, invisible forces and the essence of what once was. His work has been published in Sustainable Darkroom's Back to Basics I and Back to Basics II, and his seventh solo exhibition recently closed at the Rye Arts Center.

Brad Smith is an award-winning photo editor with over 35 years of experience in visual storytelling. He's worked in the sports industry as Director of Photography at Time Inc. Sports Publications, twice garnering Sports Illustrated the Henry Luce Award for Magazine Cover of the Year, and as Senior Sports Photo Editor at The New York Times, receiving First Place in Photo Editing for Picture of the Year (POY) on several occasions. He's managed live edits for some of the most visually stimulating sports events in the world, coordinating and editing photography for numerous Olympics, Super Bowls, World Series, and Final Fours. He has also delivered historical presidential moments as the Associate Director of Photography for the White House during the Clinton administration, and covered events with unparalleled import, such as 9/11. Currently he's the Vice President for Photography for the WWE, a massive entertainment company, overseeing the global photography division.

Instagram: @bradpix