March 27, 2023: BPS Member Photo Competition Night with Nanci Ori as judge for a hybrid Zoom meeting. The theme of this event will be announced in the near future.
Nancy Ori is extremely qualified to judge & critique our competition. She obtained a BA degree in Fine Arts from Elmira College & an MS degree in Visual Communications from Pratt Institute. She worked for 25 years as an in-house corporate photographer and manager of Video & Photography Services.
Nancy is now the owner of New Jersey Media Center, LLC where she continues to do product, portrait & food photography. She also enjoys teaching photography globally as well as exhibiting her fine art photographs. Nancy was taught by Ansel Adams and then affiliated for many years with the Ansel Adams Workshop in California. She is currently on the faculty of several museums & teaches privately. In 1995, she founded the New Jersey Photography Forum, which has become the largest & most recognized group of fine art exhibiting photographers in NJ.
Nancy predominantly photographs in the ever-changing landscape, but over the past several years has combined mixed media & abstract images into her bag of interests. Her work has been widely collected & exhibited in museums & galleries throughout the globe, has been chosen to participate in numerous grant projects & fine art exhibits, & is in numerous permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Along with exhibiting her own work, Nancy has curated & juried hundreds of exhibits at a wide variety of venues internationally & leads workshops internationally. See Nancyâs website for more information:Â www.nancyoriworkshops.com.