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Cincinnati photography contest targets college undergrads
Josh Kiger
Issue date: 11/3/09 Section: Community
CosmopolitanPhoto, a photography company based in Cincinnati is hosting a contest inviting people of all ages, but especially college-aged students, to take part.
This contest, in its initial year, is born out of the desire to capture Cincinnati and its surrounding areas, according to contest director Kevin Leyman.
"(The contest will allow participants to) bring something special that they see to the contest," Leyman said. "Anyone can take a picture, but it takes a special someone to see the beauty before the picture is taken."
As in any contest there are several categories that all share a similar goal. Those categories - architecture, events and faces - are all structured to represent "Old Cincinnati."
"There are still interesting people and places left, what is still here can be preserved and should be remembered," Leyman said. "This city still has potential, still has life and shouldn't be content with its destiny of a dying city."
Such contests often target more professional individuals or those students with a certain major, but Leyman said CosmopolitanPhoto's event is simply "hoping people will develop a passion for photography and bring the beauty to the masses."
Tenika Seitz and Zachary Drago, two first-year students at Miami University, both said they were excited and intrigued that such a contest has presented itself to the younger generation.
Leyman also said he wants students to show "what they see and feel of that which is losing ground," not the skyscrapers or ball fields, but the factories and abandoned shop fronts, the
architecture of old and the lost beauty of generations before.
Sponsors have yet to agree on a prize yet.
Miami junior Robert Sauerberg said he is more motivated to join the contest because of the opportunity to take photos, not because of the prize.
"(I don't) care so much about the prize as much as the simple incentive to go out and look for the next great picture," Sauerberg said.
For more information about contest rules and how to enter, visit http://www.cosmopolitanphoto.com. Submissions will be accepted until Dec. 1.
This contest, in its initial year, is born out of the desire to capture Cincinnati and its surrounding areas, according to contest director Kevin Leyman.
"(The contest will allow participants to) bring something special that they see to the contest," Leyman said. "Anyone can take a picture, but it takes a special someone to see the beauty before the picture is taken."
As in any contest there are several categories that all share a similar goal. Those categories - architecture, events and faces - are all structured to represent "Old Cincinnati."
"There are still interesting people and places left, what is still here can be preserved and should be remembered," Leyman said. "This city still has potential, still has life and shouldn't be content with its destiny of a dying city."
Such contests often target more professional individuals or those students with a certain major, but Leyman said CosmopolitanPhoto's event is simply "hoping people will develop a passion for photography and bring the beauty to the masses."
Tenika Seitz and Zachary Drago, two first-year students at Miami University, both said they were excited and intrigued that such a contest has presented itself to the younger generation.
Leyman also said he wants students to show "what they see and feel of that which is losing ground," not the skyscrapers or ball fields, but the factories and abandoned shop fronts, the
architecture of old and the lost beauty of generations before.
Sponsors have yet to agree on a prize yet.
Miami junior Robert Sauerberg said he is more motivated to join the contest because of the opportunity to take photos, not because of the prize.
"(I don't) care so much about the prize as much as the simple incentive to go out and look for the next great picture," Sauerberg said.
For more information about contest rules and how to enter, visit http://www.cosmopolitanphoto.com. Submissions will be accepted until Dec. 1.
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