Mike Kepka (U244)
San Francisco Chronicle
Judge's Remarks
Komenich - When looking at these three images as a portfolio, each image contributed information to the overall story of the Scenes of Summer. They each told their own story, but together provided a stronger narrative about the essence of summer. It was a risk to include a color photo in the middle of B&W images on either side. There’s a moment, a spark, and everything I look for in a good photograph.
Kennedy - The B&W images both evoked a different mood from one to the other, yet provided a universal truth kind of mood that one would expect as types of activities from the summer. Both are beautiful scenes of images that are simple, yet very nicely captured moments. The two B&W images playing off the center color image as the anchor, worked very well as a set. The thing that is fascinating to me is looking at the picture in the middle. Although it’s a color photograph, the background color is so subtly monochromatic, it almost looks as if it was B&W in the same way the right and left are B&W. To me, that’s what makes it complete as a trio.
Fong - When I first saw the images, I passed on it. But as we started talking about them, the image that struck me is the red hands. It drew me in to get a better look at the two B&W, the pool picture with the mom and the youngster swinging. It caused me to gravitate to it as a complete set. If I were to judge it individually, the results would be different. As a triplet entry, it made sense to me.
2nd Place
