- Sylvia Coogle won first place in her age class for this photo of her brother, Silas Coogle, in the KET “Portraits and Dreams” photography contest.
Local student wins KET photo contest
A local student has been announced as one of the first place winners in the KET “Portraits and Dreams” photography contest.
Sylvia Coogle of Winchester placed first in the sixth- to eighth-grade category for a portrait of her brother titled “Silas,” and was also the People’s Choice winner for the same age category.
Sylvia, 11, is a student at Baker Intermediate School. Her parents are Kent and Minda Coogle.
The contest invited students in K-12 to submit their best photographs that capture a portrait or show their dreams.
The contest was inspired by the recent film “POV: Portraits and Dreams,” in which photographer Wendy Ewald revisits her Letcher County students four decades after their collaboration produced a critically-acclaimed photography book. She had asked her students to photograph the things closest to them, including their dreams and fantasies. The assignment, she said, “opened a whole new way of making pictures for them.”
To view all the winners, visit KET.org/portraits-and-dreams-photo-contest.
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