Inga Pae Wins Dual Photography Awards

BOULDER, CO, May 24, 2011

Photographer Inga Pae this month has received two prestigious awards within days of each other, both in honor of her portfolio, "Female Nude. Fog." The collection won an honorable mention in the Jacob Riis Award competition from the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards; and the same collection received an "Excellence Award" from B&W Magazine in its B&W Portfolio Contest 2011.
Inga Pae is among 15 photographers - two from Colorado - selected for honors in the Jacob Riis contest. Her winning portfolio and others can be viewed at her website, IngaPae.com. The grand prize went to Alex Masi of London. Mike Frey of Frisco, Colo., also received an honorable mention in a contest that attracted 388 portfolios by 305 photographers from 32 countries. Seven Colorado photographers submitted entries.
The Excellence Award in the B&W contest means Inga Pae's work will be featured in a special issue of B&W Magazine that will arrive at newsstands in early June. Inga Pae's portfolio was among 15 Excellence Award winners out of 498 entries comprising 785 portfolios and more than 8,000 images.
Inga Pae says her work is meant to spark "raw conversation" among the people who view it. The photos explore the indefinite borders between the human body and its environment. Inga Pae's artistic goal is to "create fresh visual symbols for your conversational diet." She offers several collections on her website, including one that presents the "shadow side" of the human condition, and another that suggests ways in which invisible forces affect our movement.
"It was a thrill to win the first award, but the emotional impact was even greater upon news that I had won the second award less than a week later," Inga Pae said. "This sequence of events tells me that I am on the right track with my art, and I am eager to duplicate this success."
The Jacob Riis Award was juried by Tim Anderson, publisher of Red Dog Journal and Cygnet Press, Albuquerque, N.M.; Larry Padgett, founder and former executive director of the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins; and Sucheta Das, photojournalist, Mumbai, India.
To join others in a discussion about Inga Pae's award-worthy collection, go to her Facebook Fan page at http://www.facebook.com/IngaPae.

About Inga Pae
Inga Pae is a Boulder, Colo.-based artist who uses photography to introduce fresh visual vocabulary that gives new meaning to the viewer's current experiences, traditions and beliefs. Her images are innovative accents for living spaces that trigger raw dialogue, intellectual exploration and new connections among people. With every collection of photos, Inga intends to create fresh visual symbols for your conversational diet, helping you view the next photo and the next in an entirely new way. For information, go to http://www.IngaPae.com or call 720-902-7720.