Alumna Brooke DiDonato (12) has earned another significant JMC first: her award-winning photo illustration, Exorcism, is the cover photo of the 33rd Annual Spring Photographers FORUM Best of College and High School Photography (2013).
Exorcism is one of 365 photos from DiDonatos astounding one-year conceptual photo diarythe first project of its kind completed by a JMC student. The photo has already won JMCs first gold medal in Photo Illustration in the 2012 College Photographer of the Year competition and third place in photo illustration in this weekends Ohio News Photographer Associations (ONPA) 2012 annual contest (another DiDonato work, Mother Nature, won an award of excellence in the ONPA photo illustration contest). Additionally, Exorcism was one of several photos featured in DiDonatos Dreamscape Diary exhibit, which was the first solo-student photography exhibit ever displayed in Franklin Hall.
Shot on day 252, Exorcism represents alleviating oneself from internal demons that take form in the qualities of insecurity and self-deprecation.
DiDonato is now working as a photographers assistant in lower Manhattan, where her work is continuing to gain national exposure.
