Middle School Visual Artists Selected for Photography Exhibition

Fourteen Middle School students were selected to exhibit at the Slow Exposures Youth Photography Exhibition. Though the 2020 event was canceled due to COVID, students selected in the 2019-2020 year were included in this year’s exhibition that ran September 16-19 at the R.F. Strickland Building in Concord, Georgia. An awards ceremony was held on September 19 for student exhibitors.

2020-2021

• Nikhil Palakshappa, 8th grade - 1st Place
• Harrison Lord, 7th grade - 2nd Place
• Mitchell Jackson, 7th grade - 3rd Place
• Emmie Douglas, 8th grade
• Jay Kapadia, 8th grade
• Daniela Palatchi, 7th grade
• Vincent Yang, 8th grade

2019-2020

• Madeline Proctor, 8th grade - Grand Prize
• Logan Bagwell, 8th grade - 3rd Place
• Carrie Ash, 8th grade
• Peter Kotchen, 8th grade
• Adriane Moyer, 8th grade
• Sadler Wilson, 8th grade
• Michelle Zhang, 8th grade

The exhibition is an annual juried photography competition for student photographers from elementary, middle, and high schools and held in conjunction with the 19th annual photography festival that celebrates "Life in the Rural South."