Alumna wins Gold Medallion Award for second time
Gail Nogle '73 shot this photo, "The Brotherhood," at Maha Kumbha Mela, a Hindu festival held in India. The photo has won several awards.
Gail Nogle ’73 (photography) in January received the Gold Medallion Award from the American Society of Photographers for the second time in 18 years.
Her winning photo, “The Brotherhood,” was taken at Maha Kumbha Mela, a five-week long Hindu festival held in Allahabad, or Prayag, India. This festival is only held every 144 years, and in 2013 more than 80 million people attended the festival.
As can be seen through this photo, Nogle’s favorite subject to photograph is people.
“I want to learn who people are and what they do. I am interested in finding out who they are, and people sense that and relax in front of the camera,” said Nogle. “That is my gift, being able to talk and connect with people in a short period of time.”
The two Gold Medallion Awards are just a drop in the bucket when looking at Nogle’s accomplishments as a professional photographer.
In 1998, she was awarded a fellowship from the American Society of Photographers, making her one of 12 women and 67 men to have been inducted at the time. In 2000, she received her first Gold Medallion Award for her photograph “A Special Kind of Love.”
Just in the last year, her photograph “The Brotherhood” received first place in the illustrative/commercial category for the Grand Imaging Award.
The image was then chosen to represent the United States in the World Photographic Cup, a competition which each participating country contributes 10 images in six categories to be judged by an international panel of judges.
Nogle said she looks forward to attending the awards ceremony in Queensland, Australia, in May 2018.
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