Controlled Burn - Yosemite

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• Photographer
  Joan Sharma
• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Company/Studios
  joansharma.com
• Date of Photograph
  May 24, 3032
• Technical Info
  1/500 sec, f/9; ISO 100 Full Frame
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.joansharma.com/

• Biography
  Joan K.Sharma has traveled widely throughout the United States, Europe, India and Bhutan. Sharma co-directed two study-tours to India in 2006-07 and 2010-11 with California State University, Fresno. Her photographs and paintings are in private and public collections. Sharma is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at California State University, Fresno where she teaches photography and interaction of color.
• Awards
  2016 International Photography Awards, Family of Man, HM Award for “Hindu Priest, Madhubani” 2008 Fresno Board of Supervisors, recognized for community service mural projects, Feb. 2004 Golda Foundation, Painting Award & Exhibition, Fresno Art Museum, CA 2004-05 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award, 6/3/2004 2003 Honorable Mention, Topanga Canyon Gallery, Los Angeles, Open National Juried Show, Michael Zakian, Juror, Director, Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University