Virtue & Vice Student Photography Competition Winners

"Fabulous", "solid", "haunting", are words our judges used in describing some of the winning photographs in SPD's second annual student photography competition. We agree and are very impressed with all the entries from students around the world.

First place prize goes to Nathanael Turner whose photos document the life of his friend and rap musician Larson. Of the winning image, Closet Studio (a photo of a recording studio in a closet), Nathanael says "The makeshift studio shows the resourcefulness necessary to create without abundant resources and support." After graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology this summer, he plans to move to New York to begin assisting and shooting. We hope his first place prize, a Nikon camera a space at the Eddie Adams Workshop will get him off to a good start.

We were charmed when second prize-winner Yusuke Suzuki told us he'd applied to the competition hoping to win second prize: a portfolio review with Stephen Mayes, Director of VII Photo agency. "VII is the photo agency that I respect from the bottom of my heart. So it is like a dream!! " Yusuke, a freshman at New England School of Photography, moved from Japan last summer to study documentary photography in Boston. His winning image was taken in while traveling with a NGO Afghanistan, as, he says, "I was curious and wanted to find out the truth first-hand, document it and bring it to Japanese (and other) younger generations." Yusuke is joining us at SPD's Design Gala on May 7th.