Photo Show – Smith Mountain Arts Council

John Faber Memorial Photography Contest and Show

26th Annual Photo Contest and Show 2022

Apr 23-24, 2022

Bethlehem United Methodist Church
13586 S. Old Moneta Rd.
Moneta, VA 24121

Exhibit Hours

Sat Apr 23 10am – 4pm
Sun Apr 24 12pm – 3pm

Award Winners list below.
Download pdf here.

Judge - Craig Shaffer

After 50 years of photography and millions of images, Craig Shaffer continues to tease reality with imagination through photography. He still shoots every day, exploring the world through a viewfinder of dreams. He specializes commercial, illustrative and photojournalism work, along with advanced Photoshop art composition.

“To live is to create. To create is to live,” he noted. ” As Henri Cartier-Bresson said, “It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…they are made with the eye, heart, and head.”

More about Craig at matrixphoto.smugmug.com

Gallery - click on photo to see larger image

Best in show - Allan Raasch

1st place winners

2nd place winners

3rd place winners

Reception photos

About the Photo Contest and Show

The John Faber Memorial Photography Contest and Show
is a popular annual Smith Mountain Arts Council event.

The contest draws casual, amateur, and professional photographers from a wide area surrounding Smith Mountain Lake, including Roanoke, Lynchburg, Martinsville and beyond.

About John Faber

Source: 2007 Smith Mountain Eagle article by Rebecca Jackson

Renown photojournalist, retired at SML with wife Trudy, passed away in 1993
1950-1983 served as Eastman-Kodak technical and public relations representative to the largest news organizations in the nation.
Worked closely with Margaret Bourke-White (first Life Mag cover) as liaison between her and Eastman Kodak
1963 became the first westerner to interview the Dali Lama. Faber photo was used as the Dali Lama official portrait for many years.
He documented the history of news photography, interviewing the great photojournalists, and compiling the results into a book, “Great News Photos and the Stories Behind Them. Nominated for a Pulizer Prize in 1979.