Award Winning Cuban Cool
CUBAN COOL by Laurie McCormick
CONTACT me at info@lauriemccormick.com for prices and sizes
CUBAN COOL was captured in Havana, Cuba in January 2013 while I was sitting at an outdoor café having a cup of coffee with some friends.
Since the capture of this image, Cuban Cool has accomplished the following:
Fall 2019, made the Cover of Santa Monica Community Education Brochure
October/November 2017 appeared on the last page of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Traveler Magazine
November 2015; Photographry Center of Cape Cod, Cuban Cool was juried into the Online Exhibit ‘Black & White’
http://www.photographycenterofcapecod.org/Black—White.html
September 4, 2015; Duncan Miller Gallery; Cuban Cool was featured for Sale and SOLD for $800 to one of the Gallery Collectors.
September 2015; IPA 2015 Awards; Cuban Cool WON 2nd Place in the Category People-Culture:
http://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-97707-15
May 11, 2015; National Geographic; Cuban Cool was Published for the Second time in their story: ‘Daily Life’, with Editor’s note and favorite. There were over 13,100 images submitted and only 24 were chosen.
http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/921900/
March 3, 2015; National Geographic; Cuban Cool was Published in the Daily Dozen, and was included as one of the Editor’s Favorite
July 2014; SOHO Photo Gallery, NYC; 19th Annual National Comp, Juror Ariel Meyerowitz
June 2014; PhotoPlace Gallery, VT, selected for the Exhibit “Art of Travel” by Juror Kurt Mutchler; SOLD for $750 unframed
May 2014; 7th Annual Photo Master Cup Awards, Nominee in the People Category
March 7, 2014; Duncan Miller Gallery ; YourDailyPhotograph; Cuban Cool was featured for sale $750 unframed.
February 2014; 6th Annual JM Cameron Awards, Finalist in People
February 2014; WON 3rd Place in ‘People’ Category in the IPA International Photography Awards One Shot One World Competition.
February 2014; WON 8th Place in the All Photography Exhibit in the Online Fine Art Gallery LIGHT SPACE & TIME.
January 2014; Curated into the ‘Portraiture’ Exhibit by Juror Annick Sjobakken at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
November 2013; selected for the Exhibit ‘Journeys’ by Juror Ethan Jackson at the Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
October 2013; WON Nominee Award in the People Category by Black & White Spider Awards 2013.
August 2013; WON Fourth Place in Photographer’s FORUM Magazine in their 33rd Annual Spring Photography contest and published in their 2013 Best of Photography Book. Cash Prize $125
August 2013; Juried into the California Open Exhibit at TAG Galleries in Santa Monica, CA by Juror Edward Goldman and Art Critic for KCRW, NPR affiliate station and The Huffington Post
June 2013; WON First Place in a Group Exhibit at The Perfect Exposure Gallery, Los Angeles; Cash Prize $1000
March 2013; Sold Framed right ‘off the wall’ in the Photographer’s Exhibit at the Private House Party Gallery in Silver Lake, CA.