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Lisa Powers
New Zealand
Honorable Mention
"Back to BLACK"
I love the look of high contrast black & white, and the model's expression gives the image an added element of BOLDNESS.
Biography: I was born in the south of France. My heritage is of French/Italian lineage. My family and I moved to New York when I was ten years old.
I began learning photography when I quit my day-job in a small advertising agency for a job in a large commercial photo studio.
My ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and I learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for myself with models at night.
I learned more by artistic experimentation than technical correctness since I had no technical knowledge. This was in the film era,...
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