Jaco’s PSC Sunset Photography Contest is now on exhibit – Pensacola State College

Winning picture of the 2025 Sunset Photography Contest by Jenn Hendrix.

In-person and on-line voting continues by means of February 28

The successful photographer can be awarded a solo exhibition at Jaco’s in April

Located on the foot of Palafox Street, Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille is a superb place for watching the sundown over Pensacola Bay. Golden-hour views draw enterprise to the waterfront restaurant, and that’s what first sparked the concept of internet hosting a sundown picture contest for pictures college students at Pensacola State College. This 12 months’s entries are presently on exhibit on the restaurant, with public voting going down all through February.

Jaco’s has offered the PSC Sunset Photography Contest since 2014, offering the faculty’s second-year pictures majors with a month-long exhibition and publication within the restaurant’s promotional calendar. Plus, the scholar with the successful entry is awarded a month-long solo exhibition of their work on the restaurant in April.

“This partnership with Jaco’s provides great publicity for our students who are finishing the photography program; it’s a collaboration that has continued to grow, presenting promotional opportunities and generous funding for scholarships and student awards,” stated PSC pictures professor Mark Francis.

Eligible highschool college students making use of to the pictures program can obtain a $1,500 Jaco’s Scholarship. Additional funds from the restaurant assist money prizes for the annual scholar artwork exhibition on the Switzer Gallery on PSC’s Pensacola campus.

PSC college students Benjamin Calloway, Zoe Ellis, Gary Hines, Kelena Jenkins, Andrew Johnson, Jason Mulvihill, Kaitlyn Provo, Natalee Stuart, Ebony Wilder, Teanna Woodard and Ben Word have their sundown photographs on exhibit this month on the restaurant, the place patrons are inspired to soak up the gallery and vote for his or her favourite picture. Online voting can be out there through a polling hyperlink on Jaco’s Facebook web page.

The voting deadline is Saturday, Feb. 28. One vote per particular person is allowed; duplicate votes is not going to be counted.

The winner can be introduced at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille throughout a reception at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4.