Picture This: Tifton arts council hosts candid images exhibit

Picture This: Tifton arts council hosts candid images exhibit

Published 10:51 am Wednesday, August 13, 2025

TIFTON — The Tifton Council for the Arts is trying to spotlight these probability moments in life which can be image good in each sense of the phrase with their latest exhibit.

Titled “Candid Moments: Picture This!”, the newest showcase on the Syd Blackmarr Arts Center, which opened this previous Sunday, compiles a gallery of candid images taken by members of the neighborhood who managed to catch the right second on movie.

From scenes of pure surprise to pictures of each day life, the exhibit goals to showcase the fantastic thing about an unscripted photograph — capturing an surprising snapshot of emotion {that a} skilled photographer may by no means be capable of emulate — and the marvel of discovering these once-in-a-lifetime photograph ops your self.

Community members have been requested to submit photographs all through the summer time main as much as the exhibit, offering photographers of all talent ranges, even those that had barely picked up a digicam, the prospect to point out off their good second.

From there, a aggressive jury course of determined which footage can be added to the gallery, judging below the parameters of inventive talent, emotional resonance, and a synergy with the exhibit’s themes.

The photographs featured within the gallery have been additional judged as a part of the exhibit’s second half, a contest figuring out which photos within the showcase greatest demonstrated the themes of the exhibit.

Pictures have been grouped into classes for skilled, novice, and youth submissions, and got rankings for First, Second, and Honorable Mention, in addition to the competition-wide Best in Show and TCA’s Choice.

Rochelle Harper’s “Just A Girl and Her Horse” received first within the skilled division, as did Sydney Ray’s “The Joys of Motherhood” in novice and Lily Tucker’s “Let’s Paint!” in youth.

The Tifton Council for the Arts named Keith Thomas and his photograph “Still Dreaming on Fifth Street” their TCA’s Choice winner, whereas Hudi Ashgharpour’s putting monochrome photograph “Looking for Kindness” took residence the Best in Show title.

Patrons will even have the chance to vote on their favourite photograph within the gallery all through the exhibit’s run as a part of the People’s Choice competitors.

During the exhibit’s reception, Steven Heddon, photographer, videographer, and decide for the exhibit’s competitors, hosted a presentation through which he reviewed lots of the profitable photographs, declaring the photographers’ talent for shot composition in correctly arranging features like distinction, colour, and use of shapes.

Heddon requested lots of the photographers to share the event behind and inspiration for his or her photographs, and in contrast lots of the footage to his personal work to exhibit the spectacular work of the photographs.

The skilled photographer additionally provided to supply a private critique following his presentation to any neighborhood members whose photograph was part of the gallery.

Continuing the images theme, the Tifton Arts Council plans to host a photograph enhancing course Aug. 26 working members by way of the fundamentals of photograph enhancing, adopted by a movie occasion in collaboration with Heddon Aug. 28, through which actors will carry out a skit whereas Heddon demonstrates the work that goes on behind the scenes and showcase the setup course of for filming a brief video.

The “Candid Moments” exhibit might be on show on the Syd Wednesdays by way of Sundays from 2 to six p.m. till Aug. 29. For extra details about the gallery or the upcoming arts council occasions, go to the Tifton Council for the Arts web site at tiftonarts.org.