Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) December 13, 2021 Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the Federation of European Photographers (FEP) have announced the
The awards ceremony was still streaming online, but Shannon Squires-Toews had stopped watching. She was talking to friends on the phone, saying how overwhelmed she felt by winning some top prizes in the Professional Photographers of America’s international print competition, often referred to as the Oscars of photography.
She almost missed them announcing her name again, this time as the prestigious competition’s award overall winner. She beat out more than 5,000 entries.
Squires-Toews burst into tears. Everyone around her, the friends and family gathered at her studio for a small watch party, started screaming.
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“I was beside myself,” Squires-Toews, 37, said. “That wasn’t at all on my radar of possibilities at this point in my career.”
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COLORADO SPRINGS â A picture is worth a thousand words and for a local photographer, that meant receiving $1,000 dollars for a picture she took. She recently won two national awards for her work by the National Photographers of America.
Shannon Squires-Toews owns Squires Co-Op Studio which opened in July 2020. It s where she took the award-winning photo.
She won first place in one category, then first place overall among 5,000 entries. We could compare this to the Superbowl. It is the highest honor you can get within the Professional Photographers of America, said Squires-Toews. They announced my image took the overall award and I burst into tears. It was a surreal. I m still just in a little bit disbelief.