PAUL SOKAL
b. 1953, New Haven, CN
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Paul Sokal began his photography life in 1964, with his first real camera, a Voigtlander rangefinder. He won his first prize in 1969, a whopping ten dollars in the Buffalo Evening News Amateur Snapshot Contest.
After a 25-year hiatus to pursue a medical career, he took up his camera again and hasn't looked back. He started shooting weddings in 2004 and is a co-founder of, imaginography™. His wedding images earned him membership in the Wedding Photojournalist Association. Now focused on fine art photography, his images have been exhibited in galleries as well as private and corporate collections, and he has won numerous awards, including the Grand Prize in the inaugural Trinity River Photography Contest and two merit awards in the Black and White Magazine Individual Image Contest. One of his large Dallas panoramas hangs is the office of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
Paul is also a photography judge for the State Fair of Texas.
SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas: Before iPhone 2018
Green, Urban Landscape, and Night, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado
Sylvan Thirty, solo exhibition 2015
Trinity River 2011 Photography Contest winners, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas
D Artslam-Juried show 2009
Lofty Concepts Gallery, Dallas
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada as part of the Magnum Photos Workshop
Art House 5x7 Austin and Dallas-traveling exhibition, multiple artists
Magnolia Gallery, Dallas-solo exhibit
PUBLICATIONS
Through the Lens: Dallas Arts District 2018
FUJILOVE Magazine March 2018
Black and White Magazine-February 2010
Spectacular Weddings of Texas-2008
AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS
Through the Lens: Dallas Arts District 2018
Director's Selection for “Night” exhibit at The Center for Fine Art Photography, 2016
Trinity River Photography Contest 2011-1st place Professional-Architecture
Pattern/Texture-Merit Award
Cityscape/Street-Merit Award
Black and White Magazine 2010 Single Image Contest
Trinity River Photography Contest 2009-Grand Prize
Photojournalism/Black & White-1st place
People/Back & White-1st place, 2nd place
Cityscape/Black & White-1st place, 2nd place
Cityscape/Color-2nd place
City of Richardson Photography Contest 2008
Heard Museum, McKinney-1st place 2006
Buffalo Evening News Amateur Snapshot Contest 1969
