Photography Students Win Sony Award and Trip to Cannes

March 4, 2009 - PRLog -- Under the guidance of veteran Photography instructor Don Sheffield, students Tim Detert and Grant Goldstein, both current bachelor’s degree Photography students, were selected as winners in the Sony World Photography Awards. They were chosen from 14 schools in the United States and Canada as the two North American short-listed winners. Simply put, Detert and Goldstein represent not only The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, but the United States and Canada.

Sony is sending the students and Photography program chair William Cadieux to Cannes, France, to attend the Festival and Awards Ceremony at Sony World Photography Awards from April 13-April 17, 2009. During this week, Detert and Goldstein will be participating in multiple workshops with the other short-listed winners to compete for the grand prizes.

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale was invited along with 60 universities throughout the world to enter this competition. Sheffield served as the college’s on-site point person for this contest and solicited entries through his Photojournalism class during the fall quarter 2008.

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The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, established in 1968, and now celebrating 40 Years of Creative Careers, awards Bachelor of Science and Associate of Science degrees, as well as diplomas. Programs currently offered are: Advertising, Animation Art & Design, Art of Cooking, Baking & Pastry, Broadcasting, Culinary Arts, Culinary Management, Desktop & Graphic Design, Filmmaking & Video Production, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Game Art & Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Media Arts & Animation, Photography, Residential Design, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics, Video Production, and Web Design & Interactive Media. The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale is approved for the training of veterans and eligible veterans’ dependents and is authorized under federal law to enroll non-immigrant alien students. For more information, log on to www.artinstitutes.edu/fortlauderdale.