Holy Innocents' Picture is Winner in "My Atlanta" Contest

Briana Neal, a junior at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, has won first place in the high school competition for this year’s My Atlanta Exhibition. The theme of this year’s show was Embracing Diversity, and Neal’s winning photograph was titled “Poverty.”

Five hundred photos from students at 18 schools were entered in different categories, and the judging took place on Wednesday, October 8, by Joeff Davis and Gavin Godfrey of the “Creative Loafing” editorial staff. The My Atlanta contest is sponsored by Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Photographs with the Embracing Diversity theme were meant to “communicate the significance of embracing cultural or religious differences,” according to contest guidelines. Entrants could: celebrate religious, cultural or ethnic diversity within a community or school, highlight the importance of reaching across cultural, religious or ethnic boundaries, communicate the beauty found in Greater Atlanta’s diverse population, or portray the people, places and spaces that represent diversity to inspire an audience to embrace diversity and envision a more unified community.

Photos are on view at the Piedmont Park Community Center two Saturdays, Oct. 18 and Oct. 25, from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. The park is located at 1071 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30309 (Park Entrance at 12th street).

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PIctured: The photograph “Poverty” by Briana Neal