Advertising Photographers of America holds a photo competition every year to recognize the commercial talent of photographers in different industries. APA is a great resource for anyone looking to book photographers for advertising and other commercial media. I spent a great amount of time diligently looking through the portfolio’s of all 26 winners of this year’s competition and came up with this edited synopsis of my favorite winning portfolio’s. Note : Some of the winner’s were recognized in different categories than the work selected for this feature. This is an exclusive selection of the winners so all winners are not featured here, for a full list of the winners you may visit 2009 PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS. (broken link)
Fashion (Merit Award) : Dani Brubaker
Still Life (1st Place) : Joshua Scott
Still Life (2nd Place) : Nicholas Duers
Still Life (Merit Award) : Ljubodrag Andric
Lifestyle (Merit Award) : Robert Hooman
Personal/Fine Art (1st Place Winner ): Genevieve Caron
Personal/Fine Art (Merit Award): Francois Robert
Portrait (2nd Place): Mike Narsisco
Action Sports / Adventure (1st Place Winner) : Celin Serbo
Action Sports / Adventure (2nd Place Winner) : Scott Markewitz
Student (2nd Place Award) : Marisa Howenstine