{"id":20031,"date":"2015-11-16T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=20031"},"modified":"2015-11-16T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:12:15","slug":"griffin-museum-of-photography-announces-2015-focus-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/griffin-museum-of-photography-announces-2015-focus-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Museum Of Photography Announces 2015 Focus Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffinmuseum.org\/blog\/focus-awards-2015\/\">The Griffin Museum of Photography<\/a> announced the recipients of its tenth annual Focus Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Focus awardees are a combination of local and international photography trendsetters and innovators. The Focus Awards recognize the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of a select group of enthusiastic, creative individuals and organizations dedicated to the art and business of photography,\u201d says Paula Tognarelli, executive director of the Griffin Museum. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Focus Award recipients are:<\/p>\n<p>Lifetime Achievement \u2013 Karen Sinsheimer<br \/>\nRising Star \u2013 Kat Kiernan<br \/>\nSpotlight \u2013 MediaStorm<\/p>\n<p>The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual whose ongoing commitment to photography has created far reaching impact; the Rising Star Award reflects an emerging force the photographic community is watching with great enthusiasm; the Scribe Award recognizes an individual for excellence in writing on the subject of photographic arts and the Spotlight Award is given to an entity that consistently shines a light on photography resulting in an extensive influence in the field.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffinmuseum.org\/blog\/focus-awards-2015\/\">Griffin Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffinmuseum.org\/blog\/focus-awards-2015\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLeft to right: Crista Dix, Lou Jones, Delphine Sims, Lisa Volpe, Frances Jakubek, Paula Tognarelli, Ed Kashi, Debbie Hagan, Kat Kiernan and Brian Storm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Griffin Museum of Photography announced the recipients of its tenth annual Focus Awards. \u201cThis year\u2019s Focus awardees are a combination of local and international photography trendsetters and innovators. The Focus Awards recognize the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of a select group of enthusiastic, creative individuals and organizations dedicated to the art and business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1892],"class_list":["post-20031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mediastorm-awards","tag-griffin-museum-of-photography","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}