Matt Cashore, a 鈥�94 Notre Dame graduate and University photographer since 2007, received the Mark A. Philbrick Photographer of the Year Award for 2016 by the . Cashore was presented the award in June at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.
The award, named for eight-time photographer of the year winner Mark Philbrick of Brigham Young University, is determined by a combination of a monthly online contest and a year-end print contest.
Cashore earned the honor after coming close in recent years. He submitted strong entries in the monthly image competition and annual print competition, including a first place for news and college life and a second place in science and research. Both images were then chosen by a UPAA panel for discussion during a member photo critique.
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Canon USA sponsors the annual competition and donates a DSLR camera kit with lens to the winner.
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