PORTRAITS OF RALEIGH 2: Images of a City and Her People

The call for entries for the Portraits of Raleigh II exhibit was a huge success! We had hundreds entries, thank you to all whom submitted.

Our jury, Juli Leonard and Jason Arthurs, met and narrowed down the field to the photos that will be featured in the exhibition, and we are pleased to announce the following photographers have been selected:

Along with the framed pieces on the wall, there will be a curated digital display of selected images including several other of our submitting photographers.

Due to the large number of wonderful submissions, POR II will also run with a Series One and Series Two. The exhibit will run for 4 months, with one set of photos being featured the first four months, and a second set rotating in for the next four months. Therefore, we'll be having an opening reception on August 6, 2010, and a second opening reception on December 3, 2010 as well. The Best in Show, Second Place, and Third Place that were selected by the jury will hang in both shows, but there will be a "Sir Walter Raleigh" audience choice award for each of the 4 month sets.

Thank you to our jury for their time:

Juli Leonard, a staff photographer and photo editor at The News & Observer, has taken photos since she was a little girl.  Juli has contributed photos to magazines, books and has been included in gallery shows in addition to her work at the newspaper.  She believes there is an art to the connection between the photographer and the subject and that the best stories are to be found in the everyday lives of the people around her.  She resides in Raleigh with her daughter, Tula Mirth, and dogs.

Jason Arthurs is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Raleigh,NC. He was named North Carolina Photographer of the Year in 2005 and 2006, with portfolios containing work from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a documentary project in India and a story about a young mother battling terminal cancer. His work has also received awards from photojournalism’s most prestigious competitions including the Pictures of the Year International and National Press Photographers “Best of Photojournalism” competition. Arthurs graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied photojournalism and history. He has served as faculty on the University of North Carolina’s Photojournalism Workshops whose projects have also received international awards for digital storytelling. Arthurs has had work published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine and the L.A.Times within the last year.

Thank you so much to our exhibit sponsors:

Images shown above are a selection of the submissions. Photographers from left to right are: Lincoln Hancock, Simon Griffiths, Lauren Aiello, Eric Schneider, Marshall Wyatt, and Rebecca Necessary.