Winners of RIT photo contest for young artists announced
Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS) has named the winners of its annual Instagram photography contest.
This year’s RIT Photo Prize contest generated more than 1,000 submissions from high school and community college students all over, with the juried panel of SPAS faculty selecting an Image of Excellence winner and four Images of Distinction. The contest was created to discover, support and promote the next generation of image makers. Prizes for the winners included a Canon camera kit with two lenses, Lomography Diana cameras and film and swag from Kodak.
The 2018 honorees are:
Image of Excellence
Vincent Alban
Images of Distinction
Isabella Cole
Taylor Fillenwarth
Kevin Leahy
Marina Molodets
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