To kick off our first amateur photography competition, we thought we would start close to home, the New York Borough of Brooklyn. From Coney Island to Greenpoint, the Brooklyn Bridge to Prospect Park, we called for images that represented the true pride and spirit of Brooklyn. After receiving hundreds of submissions, and thousands of votes, pingg is proud to introduce our exclusive Brooklyn's Best Designer Series.
- Grace Bello »
Grace Bello is from California and graduated from U.C. Berkeley. Now based in New York City, she works as an online writer and editor. In her spare time, she attends indie rock shows, travels, performs improv with her troupe Wizard's Sleeve and photographs the city. She can be reached at youknowmeasgrace@gmail.com.
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- Tom Callan »
"Street Photography" is how Brooklyn Heights photographer Tom Callan describes his work. Before moving to New York over 25 years ago, Tom studied with Fred Ritchen, former editor of the New York Times Magazine, at the Maine Photographic Workshop. His photos have appeared on the front page of the New York Times as well as in the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Village Voice, Spy Magazine and various other publications. The "Q" Train was recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Museum. A native of Massachusetts, Tom worked as stringer for United Press International and Associated Press. He graduated from Boston State College with a degree in Political Science. Tom's photos have appeared regularly in the Brooklyn Paper for the past 25 years.
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- Rachael Fox »
Rachael Noel Fox is an artist.
Her photography has been mentioned / presented / used by: BBC News, The Gothamist, Warren Ellis, Now Public; published in the book: "Discovering New York Artist De La Vega"; and part of the exhibition: "selfportraitr" at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in Manhattan.
More stolen city moments can be seen in her book, "DAD SOLD CRACK HERE: Photographs of New York City".
Her favorite accomplishments are those created as one half of the artistic duo: The Sticky Friends. That which results from their collaborative efforts always captures a spirit of pure imaginative enjoyment and uncomfortable oddity.
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- Adam Husted »
Adam Husted's photography has been featured in more than thirty major publications including Time Out New York, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Art in America and on the Web sites, flavorpill.com, nymag.com, travelandleisure.com, nycgo.com and artnet.com, among others. For the past nine years, Adam has worked as a publicist for the renowned Brooklyn Museum on such exhibitions as I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Graffiti, William Wegman: Funney/Strange, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, and most recently on Who Shot Rock: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present. His other interests include songwriting, hiking and UFOs.
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- Stéphanie Kac »
Stephanie Kac is a graphic designer from Paris but loves coming to New York to take pictures. She prefers to use plastic cameras such as Diana or Holga. More of her work can be seen here: flickr.com/photos/stephaniekac
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- Alicia Kachmar »
Alicia Kachmar has lived in New York for six years, splitting time between Brooklyn and Manhattan. Favorite activities include baking while wearing one of her many vintage aprons, crocheting smiling and frowning foods while listening to the NPR books podcast, cutting her own hair and the hair of friends, writing into the wee hours of the morning, going on long bike trips and pretending to be a good pool player. She avoids "careers" and "long-term plans" like the plague.
Alicia started taking pictures at a very young age, once double exposing film and thinking that it was the coolest mistake ever. She fell in love with Brooklyn and photography simultaneously while in high school, heading there for spring break to shoot rolls of black and white for a photography class assignment.
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- Robin Lester »
Robin Lester is a native of Buffalo, NY, and bought a one-way ticket to New York City in 2000. Since then, she has worked for major record labels and in advertising, and is now an advocate for sustainable urban living. She received a BS in Television, Radio and Film from the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a MA in Sociology at the New School for Social Research, where her thesis project focused on presentation of self in personal blogs. In 2006, she founded Clinton Hill Blog, a hyperlocal news site based in her neighborhood of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, featuring photography, news, local businesses and neighbor profiles. A burgeoning photographer, Robin has shot for the Brooklyn Paper and had her first photography show at RePop in 2008. She is also an accomplished tap dancer, occasionally teaching classes in Manhattan. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband (Will), a giant calico cat (Cleo) and a deaf Chihuahua (Marshmallow). More of her photography is available online at Lesterhead.com.
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- Chris Macowski »
Chris Macowski is a publicist at The Morris + King Company and the founder of Brooklyn-based music video site popsicleBOMB.com. Chris resides in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. For more information, check out twitter.com/cmacowski or facebook.com/cmacowski.
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- Matthew Pugliese »
As long as Matthew Pugliese can remember, he has always wanted to do something creative. Upon his high school graduation, Matthew decided to pursue a career in graphic design and attended Briarcliffe College in Bethpage, NY, where he received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.
Currently residing in New York, Matthew is seeking opportunities to use the skills he has developed in the field of graphic design. As a freelancer, Matthew keeps up with changes in the industry. In his spare time he contributes his expertise to numerous web forums.
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- Amy Rollo »
Amy Rollo was sold on photography after her first darkroom class in high school. She studied photography and design at Pace University in New York City, which also led her to a stint in Italy at Florence University of the Arts where she refined her darkroom skills studying classic photography. It was at this point when she also dug her heels into fashion photography in order to extend her talents to the commercial world.
With a penchant for travel, her photo library spans across Europe, the continental United States, and the Caribbean. She is interested in fashion, but more so in individual style and the person beneath the clothing. The fusion of a desire to see new places and a universal interest in people has created an organic photojournalistic approach to her work.
Amy is currently employed as Art Director of HoneyMag.com, an urban, multi-cultural digital magazine, but is always open to freelance photo assignments. Amy regularly updates her blog, Brookland, with new work and other relevant content related to her creative activities.
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- Vasilios Sfinarolakis »
Vasilios Sfinarolakis is a documentary photojournalist as well as a first-rate schlep. He is absorbed with conflict and social issues photography, producing socially aware essays from rural Crete to Gallup, New Mexico. He is half-pleased with the state of photojournalism as is today and is unsure of where it is trying to go. Vasilios is open to most things, 'cept Annie Leibovitz of course. He has been published in various photography websites including Burnmagazine and FWAphoto and was most recently published in the New York Times.
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Tricia Vesey »
Amateur photographer with 3 published pictorials books: Outer Banks Wild, Vols. I, II & III. Mostly shoots performing acts, outdoor events and natural light portraits.
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- Danny Wild »
Danny Wild is a reporter, editorial producer and photographer for Major League Baseball’s website, MLB.com, covering both the Majors and Minor Leagues since 2007. His work has been published in various newspapers, magazines and websites, including the Poughkeepsie Journal, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Times Herald-Record, the Journal News, the New York Post, MaxPreps.com, the St. Petersburg Times, the Tampa Tribune, Baseball America, Minor League Baseball, MLB Network and more. Danny, who graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a journalism degree in 2006, lives in Rockland County, NY and worked as a Zamboni driver during his college years. Website: dannywild.com
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- Joel Zimmer »
Joel Zimmer, a relative new comer to the world of photography, is a Brooklyn based photographer who has recently completed his first 365 Project, a photographic undertaking that requires an artist to take a least one picture a day for an entire year (365 days). During his 365 Project, Joel's love of photography escalated and the city's gritty and humorous elements such as architecture, landmarks and graffiti became his inspiration for his second 365 Project.
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