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Westover Student Wins National Gold Photo Award
Amelia Fox ’08, a resident of New Fairfield, CT, has won a prestigious Gold Award for Photography in the 2008 National Scholastic Art & Writing Competition for her work, “Pam Cubed,” a silver gelatin, black-and-white print.
By Michael Gallagher
May 01, 2008 -- Amelia Fox ’08, a resident of New Fairfield, CT, has won a prestigious Gold Award for Photography in the 2008 National Scholastic Art & Writing Competition for her work, “Pam Cubed,” a silver gelatin, black-and-white print.
Amelia’s winning photograph is eligible to be displayed in the group’s National Art & Writing Exhibition in New York City and she is invited, with other National winners, to be recognized on the stage of Carnegie Hall in New York City at the National Awards Ceremony. Both events will be held in June.
Amelia has developed impressive photography skills at Westover through photography courses such as Basic Photography, Zone System, Digital Photography and Color Photography, and by participating in Advanced Placement Studio Art, with a concentration in photography. In her photography portfolio for AP Studio Art, she noted that her themes were light and shadow, and portraiture. “I have been intrigued by the role of light in a photograph, as light is what makes photography possible, and photographs are essentially shadows, images left by light. I have started to find that with the right lighting and composition, it is possible to take a clear, interesting image of a person without taking a portrait,” Amelia said. Her photography teacher at Westover is Michael Gallagher of Woodbury.
Her award puts her work in the top 1% of more than 100,000 works of art and literature that were submitted to the 2008 to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition, the longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative young people in the U.S. Less than 52 students throughout the country will receive a National Gold Award for a photographic work.
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