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I’m very excited to announce that the picture above of J.T. Hartman kayaking Decrease Mesa Falls on the Henry’s Fork River in Idaho has been chosen for inclusion within the 2024 Communication Arts Pictures Annual, which will probably be revealed within the July/August 2024 subject. The Communication Arts Pictures Annual competitors has been held for the final 65 years making this one of many oldest images competitions within the World. From the Communications Arts press launch, “Of the two,210 entries to the sixty fifth Pictures Annual, solely 129 initiatives have been accepted, making the Pictures Annual probably the most unique main images competitors on this planet.” My congratulations to all of my friends who have been additionally included within the Photograph Annual this yr as nicely. General, the standard of the work on show was fairly spectacular and really inspirational. I can’t wait to get the print model of the journal and spend slightly extra time perusing all the nice pictures.

Under is the quilt of the July/August subject of the Photograph Annual and in addition the unfold with my picture proven together with different winners within the promoting class. Notably, the very subsequent unfold within the journal is stuffed with pictures by Annie Leibovitz, additionally included within the Photograph Annual for greatest promoting pictures–not dangerous firm.

For these not accustomed to Communication Arts, here’s a description from the press launch of the journal, which is extra like a high-end guide than {a magazine}: “Communication Arts is knowledgeable journal for designers, artwork administrators, design companies, company design departments, businesses, illustrators, photographers and everybody concerned in visible communications. By means of its editorials, characteristic articles and the annual competitions it sponsors, CA supplies new concepts and knowledge, whereas selling the best skilled requirements for the sphere. With a paid circulation of 25,000, Communication Arts has a wealthy custom of representing the aspirations of a continually-growing and quality-conscious area of visible communications. Now in its 66th yr, Communication Arts continues to showcase the present greatest—whether or not it’s from business veterans or tomorrow’s stars—in design, promoting, images, illustration, interactive and typography.” 

Within the promoting industy there isn’t any different competitors that highlights one of the best pictures of the yr. The Photograph Annual isn’t nearly promoting images however these pictures, together with pictures created for editorial shoppers as nicely, make up nearly all of the photograph annual annually. The Photograph Annual goes out to hundreds of artwork consumers, photograph editors and producers, which implies that inclusion within the Photograph Annual just isn’t solely an enormous award within the business, nevertheless it typically results in extra work for these included in Annual. 

For me personally, getting the e-mail that this picture made it into the 2024 Photograph Annual is a affirmation that we knocked it out of the park on this project for the FUJIFILM GFX100 II—a groundbreaking 102 MP medium format digicam launched final yr. That is my fifth time being featured within the Communication Arts Photograph Annual—and that is the second time one among my assignments for Fujifilm has produced pictures which were included within the Photograph Annual. Large props to Victor Ha, Varina Shaughnessy, Jackie Merry and your complete crew who labored on this gig for bringing this project to life and for all of the exhausting work to assist create these pictures. Additionally, my honest because of Communication Arts and the jurors who selected the profitable pictures: Kenji Aoki, Phil Copithorne, Ursula Damm, Christine Dewairy, Miles English, Jennifer Greenburg, Joe Karably, Sybren Kuiper, and Sacha Stejko.