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FMoPA,
the Black
Heritage
Festival,
and TOBA
Present:
Heritage Photography Contest
Gallery C:
Thursday,
January 21
through
Saturday,
March 13,
2010
Opening
Reception
and Awards
Ceremony for
Heritage
Photography
Contest,
Saturday,
January 23,
1:00 p.m. to
3:00 p.m.
Members and
invited
guests are
cordially
invited to
attend the
reception
honoring the
work of Van
Buren Middle
School
students.
Thanks to a
generous
grant from
Verizon,
the Florida
Museum of
Photographic
Arts (FMoPA)
has
partnered
with the
Tampa Bay
Black
Heritage
Festival
and
Tampa
Organization
of Black
Affairs
(TOBA)
to host the
Heritage
Photography
Contest for
students at
Tampa’s
Van Buren
Middle
School.
Tampa’s 2006
Photographer
Laureate
Steven S.
Gregory and FMoPA staff
intern Megan
Leppla
assisted and
prepared
students
from Van
Buren Middle
School to go
into their
neighborhoods
to explore
the theme of
“Do you see
what I see?”
Sixth and
seventh-graders
were given
cameras and
instructions
on how to
use them in
order to get
photos
inspired by
the theme of
the contest.
Congratulations
are due to
the 62
students who
participated
in this
project,
including
first place
award winner
Janasia
Harris,
second place
winner Kayla
Pinkney and
third place
winner
Keziah
Moncur.
The
Honorable
Mention
recognitions
go to Alicia
Johnson,
Cherry
Smith,
Jessica
Davis,
Kortney
Mitchell and
Timothy
Nobles.
FMoPA, the
Tampa Bay
Black
Heritage
Festival and
TOBA are
grateful to
James E.
Tokley Sr.,
Tampa’s Poet
Laureate,
who has
composed a
poem for the
occasion of
this
exhibition.
This is the
third
consecutive
year that
the Verizon
Foundation
has
sponsored
this
valuable
project.
The
foundation,
the
philanthropic
arm of
Verizon
Communications,
supports the
advancement
of literacy
and K-12
education,
fosters
awareness
and
prevention
of domestic
violence,
and invests
in projects
that provide
technology
to help
underserved
populations
and people
with
disabilities
access
information
on critical
health
issues.
COMMENTS
FROM STEVEN
GREGORY ON
JUDGING
THESE PHOTOS
Created for
the Heritage
Photography
Contest
Do You See
What I See?
JAMES E.
TOKLEY, SR.
Poet
Laureate,
Tampa
And this is
what I want
to know
Will what I
see change,
as I grow?
Does how I
see a
picture on a
page
depend, for
the most
part, on my
age?
One day,
when I am
72,
Will what I
see now
still be
true
Will the
colors that
light up my
soul
still make
me laugh,
when I grow
old?
But tell me now, at age
13,
is eyesight
real, or
just a
dream?
We see a
thing, both
you and me
I see a
hand. You
see a tree
I see a
playground
filled with
light
You see a
junkyard,
dark with
blight
I see good
friends who
I love and
trust
You see
delinquents,
with
disgust!
And here's the thing I
want to know
Do our eyes
change, the
more we
grow?
Does sight
grow old; do
eyes grow
wise
Can eyesight
fathom truth
from lies
Is eyesight
like a
window pane
Except for
the fact it
has a brain?
And, unlike
glass
appears to
be,
Do eyes tell
us what we
should see?
And so,
although we
see the
same,
We seem to
give it
different
names,
Which means
the hardest
thing for
me,
is to make
you see just
what I see!
To focus
through my
camera's
eyes
And picture
my world of
beauty and
lies,
of tears and
laughter,
all the
same,
through the
lens of my
own window
pane!
I hope you like what you
will see
But if you
don't, it
still is me!
Copyright
©
2009 James
E. Tokley,
Sr.
All
Rights
Reserved
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Participants:
Van Buren
Middle
School:
Dr. JoAnn S.
Redden,
Principal
Latonya
Anderson, Assistant
Principal
Kenneth
Anthony
Board Member
Black
Heritage Festival
Our
Laureates:
Steven
Gregory
Photographer
Laureate,
2006
James E.
Tokley Sr.
Poet
Laureate,
Poem for the
event,
Inspiration
FMoPA Staff:
Joanne
Milani,
Director
Jim
De Mauro,
Assistant
Director
Heather
Trubee,
Museum
Manager
Megan Leppla, FMoPA Intern
The
Judges:
Latonya
Anderson,
Van
Buren
School
Assistant
Principal
Yolanda
Anthony,
TOBA
Representative
Candice
Cusseaux,
TOBA
Representative
Steven
Gregory,
Photographer
Laureate
Alex
McKnight,
Commercial
photographer, teacher
at St
Pete's
Youth
Arts
Corp.
Patrick
Mitchell,
Black
History
Festival (and
took
student's
portraits!)
FIRST
PLACE
JANASIA
HARRIS
SECOND
PLACE
KAYLA
PINKNEY
THIRD
PLACE
KEZIAH
MONCUR
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