SONY - Emerging Artist Award
Award:
We are excited to introduce the Emerging Artist Award to recognize the remarkable talent, dedication, and innovation of our emerging artists within the Algonquin College Photography Program. This comprehensive award honours the student who demonstrates exceptional overall branding, a compelling booth presentation at the exhibition, a professionally crafted website, and a portfolio that exemplifies creativity, coherence, and technical skill. This award will be judged based on the student’s portfolio, website, and presentation during our Exhibition.
The faculty and staff are proud to add this new award this year through the generous sponsorship of Sony Canada. Good luck to all who submitted their work!
JUDGE:
Leonard "Yoni" Sambo is a Creative Director who specializes in Editorial & Commercial Photography born and raised here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
He has had formal training in Photography, Music, Dance, Video Production, Web Design and Graphic Design. By being versatile in many forms of art, he is able to produce unique pieces and also reduce the limitations of a client's vision.
Yoni consistently creatively directs, produces and photographs a wide array of subjects, which allows him to be such a versatile artist in his field. This includes, but isn’t limited to: brand headshots, interiors (home and commercial spaces), food & beverages, e-commerce, concerts & corporate events, fashion editorials and look books. Many of his clients deem him to be very organized, punctual, respectful and most of all, a professional with clean high quality work.
Yoni has been published both locally and internationally. He has also recently exhibited a solo show and plans on an international show in the near future. Yoni is currently the Creative Director for a few Ottawa restaurants all while continuing to shoot editorial and commercial work for various businesses in Ottawa, Toronto and Internationally.
We are pleased to announce that the winner of our newest award Emerging Artist 2024 is Savannah Oram, congrats!!
Instagram: Savannah Oram Photo
Portfolio: Savannah Oram
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