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RCS's Hank Auderer Wins 2002 Members Fellowship Grant from the Texas Photographic Society

In September, the Texas Photographic Society announced the winners of their 2002 Members Fellowship grants. After much though and consideration of talent, the juror, Luther Smith, made his selections.

The Members Fellowship recipients for the 2002 term are Hank Auderer (San Antonio), Saune Carlisle (Odessa), and Katherine O'Brien (Buda). Each of these photographers will receive $500 to help defray exhibition expenses such as the cost of film, paper, chemicals and framing. Luther said about the winners:

"All three photographers make work that is physically beautiful and intellectually stimulating. Saune Carlisle's work is especially engaging in that it deals with the struggle for life in difficult circumstances. This work also brings up moral issues that advances in medicine have created. Hank Auderer's landscape photographs or portraits of dwellings reflect human habitation of the landscape and their interaction with it. Katherine O'Brien's photographs reflect the importance of water as a significance in our lives as play, metaphor and life force."

Luther Smith
Professor of Art Photography
Texas Christian University

If you are interested in learning more about the Texas Photographic Society, check out their web site at www.texasphoto.org.

Hank Auderer studied photography at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; The Center for Visual Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School, Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Army Photographic School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and the University of Texas at El Paso. He has worked as a photographic sales representative, a self -employed foreign auto mechanic, a staff photographer for Air Texas Magazine, and a photolab technician. In the early 1970's, as a Photographer with the U.S. Army Signal Corps he photographed Medal of Honor ceremonies at the White House, and ceremonies and events in and around Washington, D.C.

In 1981 Auderer became a self-employed professional photographer specializing in corporate, industrial, architectural, and advertising photography, with an emphasis in location and studio work. He initiated River City Silver as a black and white professional lab catering to a select group of professional photographers and corporate communications groups. Since 1984 he has been President and CEO of River City Silver, South Texas' leading photographic and digital imaging lab.

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