APA San Francisco 2022 Something Personal Winners

25th Anniversary APA SF Something Personal Winners!

View the full exhibition gallery here!

Congratulations to the top 4 winners, the top 100 photographers, and all who participated in this year's contest & exhibition! All 800 image submissions were blindly rated by our incredible panel of 10 judges, and these four rose to the top! They collecctively won over $40,000 in prizes, and we couldn't be happier for them! If you missed the Opening Night Livestream & celebration, don't worry, we recorded it! We'll publish that video as soon as it's ready so you can hear for yourself from the Top 4, the APA SF Board and Director.

We'd also like to congratulate the photographers of the Top 100 images!

View The Gallery Here!

Sixteen photographers were also hand-picked by The Personal Photography Project to receive one free project on their site for a year! They are:

• Elisabeth Caren

• Ilanna Barkusky

• Laurie Frankel

• Lisa Wiseman

• Markku Lahdesmaki

• Nader Khouri

• Neil Kremer

• Othello Banaci

• Ryan Schude

• Samantha Berg Matarese

• Samantha Wolov

• Shawn Fender

• Steve Korn

• Tom Kubik

• Tracy + David

• Tricia Turner

Our deepest gratitude to all of this year's incredible judges!

• Greg Garry, Creative Director, greggarry.com

• Blake Bakken, Executive Creative Director, blakebakken.com

• Fred Abercrombie, Creative Director, The Lagunitas Brewing Co. 

• Jess Shay, Art and Print Producer, Duncan Channon

• Leisel Vink, Photo Editor, Godfrey Dadich Partners

• Mike Ruiz, Creative Director, Video/Meta, mikewriter.net

• Matt Klug, Creative Director, Cisco, mattklug.com 

• Brooke Farrington, Photo Art Director, farringtonfoto.com

• Jigisha Bouverat, Agent, Bouverat Collective

• Matt Demliner, Art Director, mattdemilner.com

And a huge thank you to all of our amazing sponsors!

• Little Giant Lighting

• Crucial Crew

• Flash Studio

• StoodilyDoodleyO

• Stella Pro

• Capitol Art

• JCX Expendables

• Think Tank Photo

• Gestalt

• Samys Camera San Francisco

• Leftspace Studios

• Lulu Artists Collective

• Lux Studio

• Dickerman Prints

• The Personal Photography Project

• Hanson Digital 

• The Blackwell Files

• Starbelly

• Out Of The Box 

• Clover Caramels

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