Jurors

Isabel Chenoweth is an award-winning professional photographer in Connecticut with more than twenty-five years’ experience exhibiting both her professional work and fine art images. As University Photographer for Southern Connecticut State University, she focuses on portraits, editorial, and marketing photography. Her fine art work includes studies on wetlands and other fragile and threatened ecosystems. She was the featured photographer at the Fairfield Museum and History Center during IMAGES 2024, exhibiting photographs of Connecticut’s tidal zones and wetlands. She also has several long-term documentary and portrait projects, including a portrait series of 118 women judges in Connecticut, “Women in Black: Portraits of Female Judges of Connecticut,” now a permanent exhibit at the Quinnipiac University School of Law. A former lawyer, Chenoweth holds a B.A. from Vassar College and a J.D. from the College of William and Mary.

Brad Smith is an award-winning photo editor with over 35 years of experience in visual storytelling. He's worked in the sports industry as Director of Photography at Time Inc. Sports Publications, twice garnering Sports Illustrated the Henry Luce Award for Magazine Cover of the Year, and as Senior Sports Photo Editor at The New York Times, receiving First Place in Photo Editing for Picture of the Year (POY) on several occasions. He's managed live edits for some of the most visually stimulating sports events in the world, coordinating and editing photography for numerous Olympics, Super Bowls, World Series, and Final Fours. He has also delivered historical presidential moments as the Associate Director of Photography for the White House during the Clinton administration, and covered events with unparalleled import, such as 9/11. Currently he's the Vice President for Photography for the WWE, a massive entertainment company, overseeing the global photography division.

Instagram: @bradpix

Michael Vahrenwald is a photographer and co-founder of the publishing imprint ROMAN NVMERALS.  His works have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, El Croquis, A+U, DOMa, Arch+, Dwell, Wallpaper and Flash Art amongst others. He is an Associate Professor at the Hartford Art School Limited Residency MFA program in Photography.