2007 Summer

Flagler Student Selected as Finalist in Photography Competition

By Staff ⋅ August 15, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅

Senior Andrea Huls’ love for her native Bolivia helped her become a finalist in a national photography competition.

While visiting home, she took dozens of photographs capturing life in Bolivia and the fascinating people who live in the South American country.

“When I left [college] for the summer, I knew I was going to take pictures,” Huls said. “I just started thinking black and white. There’s so much color in Bolivia, but to enhance things like poverty and the innocence of children down there, black and white is really powerful.”

Huls, a communication major, entered seven photos into Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography competition. Several of those photos were taken in Bolivia and others she took on a trip to Holland.

“I took my camera with me all the time, knowing there was something that was going to catch my eye,” she said.

In January, Huls learned one of her photos was picked as a finalist.

“When I got the letter I wanted to jump around,” she said.

“To enhance things like poverty and the innocence of children… black and white is very powerful.”

Her photograph of a young girl from Potosí will be published in the Photographer’s Forum issue Best of College Photography Annual 2007, along with all the other finalists’ submissions. It is a hardbound publication and is distributed to college libraries and instructors of photography, art and graphic design.

Huls has been taking photos since high school and took photojournalism at Flagler last year. She is also one of the photo editors of the campus newspaper, The Gargoyle.

“I love photographs because it freezes a moment that never repeats itself,” Huls said.