American Photographic Artists (APA) has picked out the winners of the 2016 APA Awards. Photographer Brad Trent of New York took the lead in this year’s prestigious photo competition, with his portrait of Patti Smith at Penn Station.
© Brad Trent
A total of 34 winning images in 12 categories were chosen based on personal creative expression and technical excellence. “We greatly appreciate the thoughtfulness and time that the 21 creative professionals judging the competition put into discussing the images with each other,” says Juliette Wolf-Robin, APA’s National Executive Director. “The judging is blind, so they can only decide based on what they see and believe best represents the category. There are many outstanding submissions and narrowing to just a few is no easy task.”
The APA Awards are open to photographers around the world – members and non-members alike. This year’s show boasted winners from the all around the USA, as well as the UK, France and Manila, who all got their fair share of more than $100,000 worth of prizes in photo equipment, software, and subscriptions to valuable business and marketing programs that help photographers succeed. The grand prize (Canon 5DS) along with a glass trophy will be presented to the Best of Show winner at PhotoPlus Expo in October.
Here’s who the judges have picked, aside from Brad Trent’s picture shown above:
Adventure/Sports/Action
1st place – © Rob Gregory
2nd place – © Jimmy Chin
3rd place – © Sue Barr
Architecture/Interiors
1st place – © Tim Griffith
2nd place – © Jeremiah Gilbert
3rd place – © James Ewing
Beauty/Lifestyle
1st place – © Vincent Dixon
2nd place – © Erik Almas
3rd place – © Nate Dorn
Celebrity/Music
1st place – © HollenderX2
2nd place – © Maxine Helfman
3rd place – © Scott Council
Conceptual/Altered
1st place – © Matt Sartain
2nd place – © Patrick Heagney
3rd place – © Ethan Pines
Documentary/Editorial
1st place – © Jamey Stillings
2nd place – © Valeri Lionard
3rd place – © Allan Borebor
Student/Emerging
1st place – © Danielle Tsi
2nd place – © Ignacio Umana
3rd place – © Hannah Benet
Fine Art/Personal
1st place – © Kristofer Dan-Bergman
2nd place – © Kushal Kapoor
3rd place – © Todd Baxter
Portrait
1st place – © Isabella Bejarano
2nd place – © Todd Antony
3rd place – © Chris Edwards
Still Life/Food
1st place – © Maren Caruso
2nd place – © Stephen Hamilton
3rd place – © Jeff Zaruba
Travel/Landscape
1st place – © Seth Joel
2nd place – © Chad Holder
3rd place – © Rob Brodman