Youth Showcase
Scenes from Youth Showcase Award 2024
Frank Kirshenbaum
Youth Showcase Chair
PFLI is a member of the Photographic Society of America (PSA), and we participate in their annual Youth Showcase. PSA “seeks to encourage the newest generations to learn and share the enjoyment of photography.”
The Youth Showcase is for all high school students across the USA and a few high schools outside this country. Before schools submit images to the PSA , the PFLI conducts our own competition and awards ceremony. This is PFLI’s 15th year participating in the Showcase. The PFLI started with six high schools, and over the years, more than twenty schools have participated. Each year we’ve had PSA winners. Our PFLI winners consistently represent themselves well from all the entries in the PSA contest.
2024 Award Winner’s Shown Below with
Carol DiRenzo, PFLI President
Mason Foster First Place Award Category: Architecture
Glen Cove High School
Breanne Guarino First Place Award Category: Photographer’s Choice- Digital
Farmingdale High School
Emma Leibowitz First Place Award Category: Photographer’s Choice-Prints
Planview-Old Bethpage JFK High School
Junlin Liao First Place Award Category: Photojournalism -Digital
Planview-Old Bethpage JFK High School
Michael Alba Category: 2nd Place Award- Digital Scapes
Farmingdale High School
Leonardo Rodriguez Second Place Award Category: Monochrome Prints
Valley Stream High School
Ariella Montalban Second Place Award Category: Photographers Choice-Digital
Valley Stream High School
Ava-Morizio Menzio Third Place Award Category: Scapes - Digital
Commack High School
Dakota Levine Third Place Award Category: Monochrome-Digital
Malverne High School
Erin Keane Third Place Award Category: Photojournalism-Digital
Farmingdale High School
Ocean Lee Third Place Award Category: Architecture-Prints
Planview-Old Bethpage JFK High School
Following the PFLI competition, we send all images to PSA for its annual competition. We notify the schools of the results of the PSA Competition.
There are a team of people who, over the years, made this Showcase possible.
Dorothy Gist, Southeast Queens Camera Club, who started it all.
Camera Club Liaisons:
Frank Kirshenbaum, Syosset Camera Club, Chair
Mike DiRenzo, Wantagh Camera Club
Dorothy Gist, Southeast Queens Camera Club
Doris and Mike Sherr, South Shore Camera Club
Barbara Ross, Sweetbriar Nature Photography Club
Andrea Baum, South Shore Camera Club