Congratulations to the 2007 Shaker Workshops Photography Competition Winners!

Joy Ribisi
Kings Park, New York

Photograph by Linda Griffith
2007 Interior Shot Category Winner.
Dining Room,
Hancock Shaker Village,
Massachusetts

Photograph by Karen Parsons
2006 Exterior Shot Category Winner.
Meetinghouse
Canterbury Shaker Village,
New Hampshire.

Purpose

• To illustrate the best aspects of Shaker design and to demonstrate the successful use of Shaker furniture and accessories in everyday life. Preference will be given to photographs which include either original Shaker architecture and objects, and/or Shaker Workshops reproductions.

Categories

• Interior Shots - These may be taken at Shaker or non-Shaker sites. Subjects may include residential or commercial interiors, or specific Shaker objects (furniture, baskets, boxes, textiles, etc.).

• Exterior Shots - These may be of Shaker architecture or Shaker sites, at any season of the year.

Photography Competition First Prize

• For 2008, there will be two First Prize Winners, usually one for each category.
  • Previous Competition Winners

• The First Prize is a $100.00 Shaker Workshops Gift Certificate and your photograph on the cover of the Shaker Workshops catalog, with on-cover credit and a brief biography on the back cover.

Photography Competition Honorable Mentions

2007 Honorable Mention Winner - Linda Griffin of Blaine, Maine

• Honorable Mention recognition will be given to the best photographs which are not selected for the First Prizes.

• Honorable Mention First Prize will given to the entry judged to be the best of the Honorable Mention photographs. Honorable Mention First Prize will be a Pinhole Camera, graciously donated by . Click on the image below for more information.
• View photographs made with a Merlin Pinhole Camera at Hancock Shaker Village.

• First Prize and Honorable Mention winners will be featured in an on-line Shaker Workshops Photography Gallery with credits.

Entries

• The photography competition is open to all photographers, amateur or professional.

• Mail entries to:

  • Shaker Workshops
    c/o 2008 Photography Competition
    P. O. Box 8001
    Ashburnham, MA 01430-8001

• Email entries in .JPG or .TIF format to:
  • photo@shakerworkshops.com

• You may send in as many entries as you like.

• Entries must be color images. Slides, prints, or digital images are all acceptable. Portrait orientation is preferred, but not required (Photographs with Landscape orientation will most likely be cropped when used on the catalog cover.

• Please include your name, address, and a short description of each photograph.

• Deadline for entries for the 2008 competition: June 15, 2008.

• If you would like your photograph(s) returned, please include a SASE.

• No purchase is necessary to enter this competition.

• If you enter, your name and address will not be put on our mailing list or used for any other purpose. (If you would like your name to be put on our mailing list you may do so in the section "Requesting our Catalog").

Judging

• Judging will be based on suitability of subject, quality of the photograph, and adherence to the Purpose statement above.

• The winners will be selected from entries received by June 15, 2008.

• We are looking for entries to be used on catalogs during the fall of 2008 and the spring/summer of 2009.

Questions and Comments

If you have any questions or comments, please send them to photo@shakerworkshops.com