Danella Photographic

This month’s competition was critiqued by Larry Pacilio.

Larry Pacilio began his photographic career in the 1960’s as an undergraduate photojournalism student at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. Graduate studies were pursued with Minor White at MIT’s Creative Photography Lab.

Pacilio’s career as a photojournalist began shooting for PBS News Boston working at WGBH-TV on a variety of local and nationally distributed news and documentary programs. He relocated to New York in the mid-70’s and began a lengthy freelance photojournalistic career with agency representation by Katherine Young, Black Star and Magnum Photos.

Over the course of 25 years his photos have appeared nationally and internationally in publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times, Paris Match, Stern, Geo, The Times of London, The International Herald Tribune, Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Home, The Sunday New York Times Magazine, and other notable publications. Throughout this period he exhibited widely at museums and galleries. Notably, his collection of documentary images funded by a New York State Council on the Arts grant, East Utica, 1973-1974 was the first one person show of photography hung at Utica’s Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. His images are held in numerous public and private collections.

Pacilio currently resides in Utica and has been employed as the Director of Publications and Photography at Utica College since 2000.

1st Place • Assigned • ” A Mother’s Love ” • Jessica Eiss

I showed some prejudice toward black & white, and I chose images that expressed the issue of time and moment. Henri Cartier-Bresson said of the decisive moment, “…out of chaos things come together. There was the picture and then things go into chaos again.” This photo is telling in terms of personality. The more communicative a photos is, then the stronger it is. The photograph’s vantage point tipped the issue for me. People tend to see things at eye level. In this case, playing with vantage point strengthens the composition.

1st Place • Open Color • ” Irish Horizon ” Janice Coffin

When an observer looks at color photos, he/she wants to feel the strength of the colors. In spite of that fact, I chose this image with the subtle colors because of the elegance of the composition. It is simple & elegant.

1st Place • Open Black & White • ” Joy ” • Mary Hunt-Miller

I was looking for print quality, and this image is extremely well made. This picture is a decisive moment in time. The strength of moment really shows the personality of these two guys. The photograph depicts a wonderful moment.

Special thanks to Larry Pacilio for his insightful comments. Please feel free to add your own observations via the reply area below.

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