Calling All Photographers: Enter Shepherd Center's Photo Contest

April 10, 2007

Contact: Larry Bowie (404-350-7708)

ATLANTA - Shepherd Center invites you to take part in an exciting new photography exhibit for patients, families and visitors at the Center.

The Shepherd Center Photography Project, sponsored by AXA Advisors, LLC, is a photo contest in which selected photographs will be placed in a permanent exhibit to be housed in Shepherd Center’s new Jane Woodruff Pavilion.

For more than three decades, Shepherd Center has been helping rebuild hope for people going through some of the most difficult and life-changing experiences. Rehabilitation at Shepherd is not about lamenting things lost; it is about pushing the limits, creating new ways of achieving life’s goals and seeing life in a whole new way.

In keeping with this mission, the theme of the photography contest is: A New Outlook on the World. We’re looking for remarkable and inspirational images, photographed within the past three years, which expose the viewer to the world in a new light. Photos will be judged and selected by Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and Jane Jackson, curator of the renowned Sir Elton John Photography Collection. For complete information, please visit the photo contest Web site at www.shepherd.org/photocontest

About Shepherd Center
Shepherd Center is a private, not-for-profit hospital devoted to the medical care and rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injury and disease, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis and other neuromuscular problems. Each year Shepherd Center admits more than 700 patients and conducts thousands of outpatient clinic visits. For more information, visit Shepherd Center online at www.shepherd.org.