About the PMPN Student Gallery

The Portland Metro Photographic News Student Gallery is a virtual Art Gallery for the exhibition and celebration of the talent, creativity and art of Oregon and Washington's exceptional high school and college students of photography. These gifted students represent tomorrow's photographic artists whose visions will shape the future of photography as an art and profession.

This Gallery is a cultural and educational community service of the Portland Metro Photographic News. Instructors and students of photography are encouraged to contact PMPN for additional exhibition information.

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Spring 2010 University of Portland's Juried Student Photography Exhibition

The Portland Metro Photographic News proudly makes this space available to student exhibits.  Pat Bognar of the University of Portland regularly shares the juried work of her students' semester work in PMPN's gallery.  By exhibiting her student's best work they receive the recognition they have earned while enriching the photographic experience of PMPN's readers.

The University of Portland Juried Student Photography Exhibition was inaugurated in 2005. All UP students currently enrolled in photography courses are eligible to submit anonymous entries each semester. A panel of judges selects photos for display in three categories:

  • People and Portraits
  • Landscape and Nature
  • Artist’s Choice
They also award a Best in Show. The selected photos are exhibited in the Buckley Center Auditorium lobby for one semester, and a new group is selected each semester.

Photography courses offered in the Spring 2010 semester are: Introduction to Black and White Photography; Color Photography; and Creative Photography, which consists of a range of alternative photographic processes. These classes are taught by Patricia Bognar.

The jurors for the Spring exhibit were Christine Laptuta, Larry Cwik and Dan Eccles.


Shown below are this year's award winning images.

 Spring 2010 Best of Show
Anne Carey


Best of Portraits
Abby Olson
"Photographer in Training"

Others Chosen in Portraits

Tim Kenney
"On Top of a Mountain"

Marie Benoit
"Tino"

Stephanie Lies

Joe Tanner
"Curiosity"

Fiona Thornhill
Anne Carey
"My Sister Has An Attitude"


Best Of Artist's Choice
Shayla Behling


Others Chosen in "Artist's Choice"

Megan Sweeny

Caitlin Nusbaum
"Friendly Ghosts" (Paper Negative)

Chris Clem
(Platinum/Palladium Print)

Colleen Cunningham

Amelia Gallegos

Fiona Thronhill


Best of Landscape
Chris Clem
(Platinum/Palladium Print)

Others Chosen in "Landscape"

Joe Tanner

Fiona Thronhill

Nadia Peer

Anne Carey
"The Eye of Union Station"

Talley Carlston

Janie Oliphant
"Morning on the Bluff"

The Portland Metro Photographic News congratulates all the University of Portland students who entered this year's competition, and thanks them for sharing their work with our readers.  A special note of appreciation goes to their instructor, Patricia Bognar, for all the work she has put into this project and for the guidance and inspiration she provides her students. 

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