John Faber Memorial Photography Contest and Show
Photo Show 2023
April 28-30, 2023
Bethlehem United Methodist Church
13586 S Old Moneta Rd
Moneta, VA 24121
Stay tuned for more information.
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.
Past Event: 26th Annual Photo Contest and Show 2022
Apr 23-24, 2022
Bethlehem United Methodist Church
13586 S. Old Moneta Rd.
Moneta, VA 24121
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
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.
