international photography awards
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Cat Jimenez
(310) 659 0122
cat@photoawards.com

International Photography Awards (IPA) “Best of Show” Group
Exhibition Opening at the Farmani Gallery on July 7, 2005 @ 7 p.m.

Los Angeles, California (June 23, 2005) – The International Photography
Awards (photoawards.com) presents the 2004 “Best of Show” exhibition
opening and artists’ reception on July 7, 2005 at the Farmani Gallery
located on 844 S. Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, California from
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. The IPA “Best of Show” curated by award-winning art
director Jeff Griffith (New York) will feature 45 images from the
professional and non-professional categories in the 2004 Photographer
of the Year Competition.

Participating photographers planning to attend the opening
Andy Anderson, Derek Caballero, Michael Crouser, Anna Druczs, J. Bennet Fitts, Tony
Hertz, Daniel Lai, George Murphy, Bryon Paul McCartney, Andrew Shaylor, Glen
Wexler and Timothy White, winner of the 2004 Photographer of the Year Award.
The majority of the prints will be for sale and many of them are limited editions.
This event is open to the public and sponsored by the Lagunitas Brewing Company
(www.lagunitas.com) with their India Pale Ale (IPA) Beer. The exhibition will run
from July 7 – July 31, 2005.

Participating Photographers
Steven Achiam, Vladimir Alexi, Andy
Anderson, Joseph Bell, Derek Caballero, John Conway, Stéphane Coutelle,
Michael Crouser, Marrigje De Maar, Jesse Diamond, Anna Druzcz, Jeff Dunes,
Nicolas Ferrando, J. Bennett Fitts, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Michael Grecco,
Lauren Greenfield, Timothy Griffith, Tony Hertz, Matt Hoyle, Nadav
Kander, Vlad Korneev, Daniel Lai, Tim Macpherson, Bryon Paul McCartney,
Jim Mchugh, George Murphy, Andrew Shaylor, Alec Soth, Clay Stang Joyce Tenneson,
Nick Veasey, David Waldorf, Matthew Welch, Ilona Wellmann, Glen Wexler,
Timothy White, Stephen Wilkes, Hakan Yazici.

About IPA:
Founded in 2003 by Hossein Farmani, The International Photography
Awards hosts an annual international competition, the winners of which
are announced at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony (lucieawards.com).
Prizes include $10,000 for the International Photographer of the Year
Award provided by atEDGE, and a $2000 prize to the New Discovery of the
Year Award lauding best up-and-coming artist. Award winning entries
are published in the IPA Annual book distributed throughout the
international professional photographic community.

www.photoawards.com