Photography

Exposures: Photography is an annual competition held at Lawrence Street Gallery, to highlight fine art made with photography.  Our juror this year is Judi Bommarito is a Detroit-based fine art and documentary photographer. She has been an adjunct instructor at the College for Creative Studies since 1999, where she also earned her BFA. She takes great pride in her years as the lead mentor of the Focus:HOPE Excel after school photography program as well as the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.

A prize of $10,000 is given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University to support documentary artists, working alone or in teams, who are involved in extended, on-going fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit the interplay of words and images. The winner's work will also be published in the Center for Documentary Studies' digital publications and placed in the Archive of Documentary Arts at the Rubenstein Library at Duke University. Competitive applicants to this prize have a point of view derived from an in-depth understanding of place, history, and the current situation, in concert with a personal relationship to the proposed work. Ultimately, their commitment is to use documentary expression to motivate the thinking and reflection of others.