LISA POWERS

LISA POWERS

PRESS RELEASE: Wednesday, 6 November 2013

INTERNATIONAL photographer, Lisa Powers, wins prestigious Distinction Award from the Royal Photographic Society, UK. The Society is the oldest and most august photography organisation of its kind in the world.

In order to gain a Distinction, a photographer has to submit a portfolio for approval by a highly qualified Panel of Fellows of the Society.
Lisa Powers’ impressive images won Distinctions for exceptional standards of excellence, the Society has announced.
The Distinction award was based on the strength of her submitted images in the category of Commercial and Applied Photography. One of her images appears on the cover of the current issue of the Royal Photographic Society Journal.

I was born in France, but raised primarily in New York and California. Began my LONG photography career as an art director in a boutique agency.

Currently based in Christchurch, New Zealand, and don't have the energy or desire to leave.

I attended The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) majoring in English, but escaped before graduation, although I'm still surrounded with books.

My self-taught photographic training is analogue, having had an enduring love for Kodachrome and Ilford films, processing and darkroom printing. Just before the chemical processing fumes ruined my lungs, I switched to digital photography.

In 2013, I received Distinction Honours from The Royal Photographic Society, UK.

I'm 100% vegetarian, and 90% vegan (eating only free-range, locally grown eggs).

I'm passionate about animal rights especially in the cause of ending factory farming of pigs and cows in New Zealand.

Most of my work still comes from clients overseas, but the internet makes it possible to live here while working there.