EXHIBITIONS, NEWS & AWARDS
Upcoming & Past
"Q Train" and "Soho"
"Picturing New York" Exhibition
Soho Photo Gallery
15 White Street
New York City, NY
Opening Reception
August 18, 2022, 6 - 8 PM
Closing Reception
September 11, 2022, 2 - 5 PM
Urban Photo Awards 2022
Selected Photos for Street Division
For more information:
https://www.urbanphotoawards.com/en/urban-photo-awards-2022-selected-photographers-announced/
New York City Subway Series
Solo Show
Gastfeld Gallery
Gallery Director and Curator
Dr. Marvin Marckwardt
March - June 2024
Bremen, Germany
"Q Train"
Street Photographers Foundation Paris Exhibition
2022
"Q Train"
Finalist
Street Photography Category
Carte Blanche Open Call
2022
Lucie Foundation
"Aeropostale"
Winner
"Off The Clock"
American Photographic Artists_Los Angeles
(APA_LA)_2022
Curator: Paul Martineau
"Waiting"
"It's a Dog's Life" Exhibition
South x Southeast Gallery
June & July 2022
Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
Gallery Director: Nancy McCrary
Molena, Georgia
"Hands"
Finalist for Individual Photo
Italian Street Photography Festival
April 29, 30, May 1, 2022
Rome, Italy
New York City Subway Italian Street Photography Paul Kessel
New York City Subway Italian Street Photography Paul Kessel
New York City Subway Italian Street Photography Paul Kessel
New York City Subway Italian Street Photography Paul Kessel
1/9
"New York City Subway"
Finalist for Series
Italian Street Photography Festival
April 29, 30, May 1, 2022
Rome, Italy
"Q Train"
Lens Culture New York Exhibition
Caelum Gallery
May 20 - 22, 2022
526 West 26th Street
3rd Floor
New York City
"A Corner"
5th Cip Festival
July 6 - 12, 2022
Chania, Greece
Hauptbahnhof Train Station Paul Kessel
Hauptbahnhof Train Station Paul Kessel
Hauptbahnhof Train Station Paul Kessel
Hauptbahnhof Train Station Paul Kessel
1/20
Eighth Annual Street Photography Around the World Exhibition 2022
Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
"Hauptbahnhof"
(Frankfurt, Germany Train Station)
Series Prize Honorable Mention
Juror: Meryl Meisler
1/1
15th Annual International Color Awards
2022
Nominee in Architecture: "Evening Sky"
Nominee in Fine Art: "Horse and Pigeons"
Nominee in People: "Gennaro Feast"
Nominee in Portrait: "Mother and Daughter"
Nominee in Silhouette: "Orange Sky"
Juried
"Dog on Shoulder"
"Remarkable Artwork" Award
Siena Awards 2022
(Pangea Prize)
Exhibition
October 2022
Siena, Italy
Street Photography Magazine
Featured Photographer
January 2022 Issue
Watch the interview and read the cover story here:
www.streetphotographymagazine.com
"Entering The Opera"
Looking Back: Soho Photos's First 50 Years
Soho Photo Gallery
January 7 - 30, 2022
NYC, NY
"Untitled" ("Q Train")
Special Mention & Finalist
Paris International Street Photography Awards, 2021
President of Jury: Souhayl A.
Paris, France
"San Gennaro Feast"
One Featured Photo (first image above)
+ 10 Others Featured in Series
"Streets" 22nd Edition of All About The Photo Magazine, 2021
Jurors: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
"Q Train" and "Soho"
The Wall
Cyprus Photographic Society
Pafos Branch, Greece 2021
Jurors: Niki Gleoudi, Julia Covington, Andreas Vassilou
Greece
"Untitled" ("Q Train")
Winning Photographer (Finalist)
Urban Photo Awards, 2021
Trieste Photo Days Festival, 8th Edition
President of Panel of Jurors: Bruce Gilden
October 24, 2021 - January 11, 2022
Medal Ceremony: October 30, 2021
Trieste, Italy
"Q Train"
Honorable Mention
Siena Awards 2021
Street Division
Siena, Italy
"Cuba Libre" and "Smoke and Masks"
Honorable Mention
OneShot: Street Photography
Category: Public Events (Rallies, Marche)
IPA 2021 Photo Awards
"Soho"
First Place Winner
TDM Awards 2021
Jurors: Veet Vohra and Dilek Uyar
https://tdmawards.com/tdm-awards-2021-winners/
"Untitled" ("Q Train")
Winning Photographer (Finalist)
Urban Photo Awards, 2021
Trieste Photo Days Festival, 8th Edition
President of panel of jurors: Bruce Gilden
October 24, 2021 - January 11, 2022
Medal Ceremony: October 30, 2021
Trieste, Italy
"Q Train"
Finalist
Street Photography Awards, 2021
Street Photographers Foundation
Jurors: Andrea Bruce, David Campany, Anna Godfrey, Nikos Economopoulos, David Alan Harvey, Masoud Gharaei
www.streetphotographersfoundation.com
"Brooklyn Navy Yard"
Urban Landscapes Exhibition
South x Southeast Gallery
Jurors: Julie Graham and Stella Kramer
Gallery Director: Nancy McCary
November and December, 2021
Molena, GA
"USA" and "Smoke & Masks"
THIRD PRIZE WINNER
7th Annual Members Exhibition
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Juror: Dr. LeRonn P. Brooks
August, 2021
"Q TRAIN"
FIRST PLACE WINNER
and "Solitary"
Soho Photo Gallery National Competition, 2021
Juror: Shawn Theodore
Chairman: Joel Morgovsky
August 13 - September 5, 2021
Exhibition can be seen on The Soho Photo Gallery website here: https://www.sohophoto.com/
"Q TRAIN"
Winner, Juror's Choice Awards
The Streets Exhibition
Praxis Photo Arts Center
Juror: Layne Kennedy
August 21 - September 4, 2021
Praxis Photo Arts Center
Minneapolis, MN
"Motion Stopped"
Motion Exhibition
Juror: Zsolt Batori
August 26 - September 18, 2021
PH21 Gallery
Budapest, Hungary
"Soho"
BBA Photography Prize Exhibition
Berlin Photo Week
August 26 - September 3, 2021
BBA Gallery
Berlin, Germany
Urban 2021 Photo Awards
12th Edition
"Selected Photographer"
Street Division
("Balthazar" and 3 other photos)
Bruce Gilden Prize contender
(Hauptbahanhof series)
"Shower" from "Solitary" series
"Off The Clock" 2021
American Photography Association (APA_LA)
Juror & Curator: Rebecca Morse
Los Angeles, CA
Winner
First Place, Individual Photograph
Street Division (non-professional)
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2021
"Q Train"
Merit Winner
All About The Photo Awards, 2021
"The Mind's Eye"
10 jurors including: Denis Dailleux, Photographer, Agency VU', Alison Wright, Photographer and Author, Stefano De Luigi, Photographer, VII Agency, Stephan Vanfleteren, Photographer, Writer & Art-director of Hannibal Books, Claudine Doury, Photographer, Agency VU'Hiroshi Watanabe, Photographer, Monica Denevan, Photographer, Winner All About Photo Awards 2020, Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Keith, Cullen, Founder Setanta Books, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Photographer, Founder & Editor All About Photo
For more:
https://www.all-about-photo.com/all-about-photo-contest
"Soho"
Finalist Single Photo Contest
Italian Street Photography Festival, 2021
Judges: Richard Bram, Tavepong Pratoomwong, Kristin Van Den Eede, Umberto Verooliva
For more:
https://2021.italianstreetphotofestival.com/
"Q Train"
Honorable Mention
Siena International Photo Awards, 2021
Siena, Italy
"Selfie" Miami Beach
Finalist
Los Angeles Street Photography
"Street Shooting Around The World, 2021"
LACP Exhibition and Street Festival
Juror: Bob Patterson, Publisher of "Streets Magazine"
Los Angeles, CA
"A Corner"
3rd Place & Finalist
Streets of San Francisco Division
Streetfoto San Francisco Festival, 2020
San Francisco, CA
www.streetfoto.org
"Horse and Pigeons"
Open Up Your Archives
Exhibition
Juror Elizabeth Avedon
March - May 2021
South x Southeast Gallery
Molena, Georgia
www.sxsegallery.com
"Girls and Boy" and "Sign"
Feminine / Masculine Exhibition
PH21 Gallery
Juror Zsolt Batori
February 11 - March 6, 2021
Budapest, Hungary
"Q Train"
2ND PLACE WINNER
AAP Magazine #15 Streets
All About The Photo
Juror Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
2020 - 2021
www.all-about-photo.com
"Q Train"
FINALIST & WINNER, 1ST PLACE
International Singles Contest
Miami Street Photography Festival 2020
Jurors
Poupay Jutharat, Linda Wisdom, Meg Hewitt, Dotan Saguy, Md Enamul Kabir, Meryl Meisler, Eli Reed, and Jeff Mermelstein
December 4 - 6, 2020
Miami, FL
www.miamistreetphotographyfestival.org
"No Smoking"
FINALIST & HONORABLE MENTION (6 Photos) SILVER AWARD (1 Photo)
Paris International Street Photography Awards 2020
Paris, France
www.streetphotoawards.art
"Soho" and "Q Train"
FINALIST
Istanbul Street Photography Festival, 2020
Juried by Multiple Judges
For more information:
www.streetphotoistanbul.com/en/2020-finalists
"True Believers" and "Copenhagen Sunflowers"
Honorable Mention
Fifth Annual Fine Art Exhibition
"Exploring Humanity"
Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
Juror Marissa Caicholo
November 10, 2020 - January 10, 2021
Los Angeles, California
"Q Train"
Honorable Mention
International Photography Awards 2020 (IPA)
Date & location to be announced.
"Soho"
Finalist
Street Photography Competition
Independent Photographer, 2020
Juror: Richard Kalvar
To see more visit: https://independent-photo.com/winners/
15th Pollux Awards 2020
WINNER
Street Division (non-professional) for a Series
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
FotoNostrum Gallery (to be held 2021)
Barcelona, Spain
For a full listing of divisions, winners and honorable mentions, please visit: https://www.thegalaawards.com/15th-pollux-awarded-works
15th Pollux Awards 2020
Honorable Mention
Self-Portrait Division
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards
FotoNostrum Gallery (to be held 2021)
Barcelona, Spain
For a full listing of divisions, winners and honorable mentions, please visit: https://www.thegalaawards.com/15th-pollux-awarded-works
Conceived and curated by Sherri Nienass Littlefield and Emilie Ahern
This book and my photograph “Q Train” will be in the exhibition by invitation.
Exhibition and talk by the curators will be online October 21st, 6:30pm
October 9 - December 12, 2020
The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Fl. New York, NY
To view the book: https://www.blurb.com/books/9915777-faces-on-fifth
"Crown Heights Subway"
Texas Photographic Society's "International Competition"
Juror: Elizabeth Avedon
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
Houston, Texas
October 3, 2020 - January 9, 2021
&
The Center for Contemporary Arts
Abilene, Texas
January 21, 2021 - March 20, 2021
"Stretch" (above) &"Fashion" (below)
"Dis/harmony" Exhibition
Juror: Zsolt Batori
September 24 - October 17, 2020
PH21 Gallery
Budapest, Hungary
"Flying"
"Finding Joy" Gallery Exhibition
Juror: Amy Holmes George
October 2020
PhotoPlace Gallery
Middlebury, Vermont
"In this historic time, F-Stop Magazine and dotART decided to co-publish an exhibition of photography based on the theme, Staying Home Together. Our aim is to explore the current shared global experience from photographers portraying their experience: to highlight images from new routines in our lives, environments, and everyday life.”
-- Gary Benbow, F-Stop
"Untitled"
(Self-Portraits)
Staying Home Together
F-Stop Magazine in conjunction with dot ART
August 2020
Online Exhibition
www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition
"Library"
PH21 "Urban" Exhibition
Juror: Zsolt Batori
August 20 - 30, 2020
Barcelona, Spain
"Q Train"
3RD PLACE WINNER & FINALIST
Single Image
Len's Culture Street Photography Awards 2020
Jurors: Joel Meyerowitz, Whitney Johnson, Jerome Huffer, Ihiro Hayami, Amy Silverman, Craig Allen, Andreas Trampe, Jim Casper
June 2020
"Miami Beach"
Selected Photographer for Urban 2020 Photo Awards
Trieste Photo Days
Juried
Trieste, Italy
"Q Train"
Griffin Museum of Photography 26th Members Online Exhibition 2020
Juror:
Executive Director and Chief Curator Paul Tognarelli
"Q Train"
Among the Winners
Colors 2020
Life Framer
Juror Marion Tande
Manager of Department of Photography at the MOMA NY
"Soho"
Among the winners
2020 Soho Photo Gallery National Competition
Juror Kris Graves
June 29 - July 18, 2020
www.sohophoto.com
"Self-Involved"
Portraits of Self-Isolation Exhibition 2020
PhotoPlace Gallery (online gallery)
Juror Aline Smithson
www.photoplacegallery.com
"Evil"
Winner of Juror's Choice
"Imagination" Exhibition
PH 21 Gallery
Juror Zsolt Batori
June 4 - June 27, 2020
PH 21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
ALSO ACCEPTED IN THE EXHIBIT...
"KNIFE"
"Q Train"
"The Creative Portrait" Exhibition
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Virtual Gallery
Juror Paul Kopeikin
June 1 - June 15, 2020
Los Angeles Center of Photography, CA
"Q Train"
Honorable Mention
"Portraits" Exhibition
A. Smith Gallery
Juror Elizabeth Avedon
May 8 - June 21, 2020
A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
"Selfie / Miami Beach"
"The Streets" Exhibition
Praxis Gallery
Juror Robi Chakraborty
March 20 - April 16, 2020
Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"San Gennaro Feast / NYC"
"Q Train / NYC"
APA LA 9th Annual "Off The Clock 2020" Exhibition and Catalogue
Juror David Fahey
Opening April 25, 2020
America Photographic Artists, Los Angeles, CA
WINNER
"Self-Portrait / 2012"
PDN "FACES" Awards 2019
Portrait Photography Contest
Non-Professional Division
Jurors Jenny Sargent, Katlin Marron, Sarah Leen, Samantha Lee
See on Photo District News (PDN)
www.facesphotocontest.com
WINNER
individual photograph
"Q Train / NYC"
6th Annual Street Shooting Around The World Exhibition
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Juror David Gibson
February 7th - March 6th, 2020
Opening February 7th, 7 - 10PM
Los Angeles, CA
"San Gennaro Feast / NYC"
In addition, this photograph has been accepted for the exhibition as well.
Paul Kessel Street Photography
Paul Kessel Street Photography
Paul Kessel Street Photography
Paul Kessel Street Photography
1/5
14th Pollux Awards
Honorable Mention, Street Division
Juried
March 4 - 26, 2020
FotoNostum Gallery
Barcelona, Spain
"Union Square / San Francisco"
'Street' 8th Edition of AAP Magazine
All About Photos Awards 2019
Sandrine Herman-Grisel, Editor & Juror
2019
Featured photographer in...
"Fill The Frame"
A full length documentary film
produced and edited by Tim Huynh
Mid-2020
"White Pigeon / Old San Juan, Puerto Rico"
The 6th Annual 'Eyes on Main Street' Photography Festival
100 photographs by 100 prominent and emerging photographers from over 40 countries.
Curated by Jerome De Perlinghi
May 2 - August 9, 2020
Wilson, North Carolina
