Winning Small Victories At Above Second Photography Competition
My 'Small Victories' Entry That Made The Final Cut! It was a standard Thursday night in Hong Kong, and my usual pre-cursor to the weekend's upcoming drinking and socialising. I was getting ready to go to a local exhibition around the corner from where I live. I love going to these events, meeting local artists and being able to share my interests in the creative side of life. And there on the walls of the Above Second Gallery, tonight my entry was on show, amongst 100 other entries that had made the final cut for the exhibition. The gallery was showcasing a collection of photographs titled Small Victories , a concept created by Jeff Hamada , a Japanese Canadian artist from Vancouver, BC. He came up with the brilliant concept of getting photographers of all levels from all corners of the world to send him copies of standard 4 × 6 prints of photographs capturing "quietly beautiful, unintentionally funny, people and things all around us" . J...