The Biggs Museum is pleased to announce, Biggs Shot 2009, the second juried photography competition and exhibition featuring the work of new and emerging photographers, working and/or living in the Mid-Atlantic region. The inaugural Biggs Shot competition in 2005 attracted over 130 applicants within the region.
Sally Packard and Dinah Reath, owner of the Packard Reath Gallery, Ryan Grover, Biggs Museum Curator, and Catherine Ware, Curator of Photographs from the Philadelphia Museum of Art selected 40 photographs, which were exhibited at the Biggs Museum November 2005 through February 2006.
The selected photographs from the Biggs Shot 2009 competition will be showcased in the Biggs Shot 2009 Exhibition, offering visitors a wide range of local photographers’ work and their perspectives of the Mid-Atlantic region.
The Biggs Museum plans to display double the amount of photographers in the Biggs Shot 2009 exhibition.