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APA Chicago is holding our 11th Annual Artist’s Perspective Personal Work Exhibition, culminating with a one-night gallery exhibition on April 24, 2025 at Wildman BT Studios in Chicago. We are excited and proud to announce that Sam Landers and Tom Maday from Trope Publishing and photographer Marina Makropoulos will curate this year’s exhibition. These creatives are strong advocates for original photography and photographers throughout their accomplished careers.
This personal work exhibition is open to all photographers - professionals, enthusiasts, and amateurs. And APA members and non-members.
In our numerous interviews with agency creatives, we’ve learned the most effective way to break through and get noticed with a well-conceived and executed personal assignment. Personal projects give photographers a chance to art director their vision - taking a blank sheet of paper and making it their own. Agency creatives rely on a photographer’s personal work as insight into their worldview. At APA Chicago, our annual competition celebrates the best in photographic personal work.
Sam Landers
Sam Landers is the Publisher and Editor at Trope Publishing Co. and believes strongly that beautiful and thoughtful books have a place in the world today. After working in advertising and design for over two decades, Sam launched Trope as an integrated publishing platform for books, periodicals, and films. Previously, he held various management positions with WPP, one of the world’s leading global marketing communication companies. During his time there, Sam worked in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco ~ and traveled frequently throughout Europe, Asia and Africa (always taking his notebook & camera).
Tom Maday
Tom Maday is a photographer whose assignments take him to every corner of the globe including Africa, the Middle East, the India subcontinent, Latin America, Europe and throughout Asia for clients such as ESPN, Abbott, Sappi Paper, Motorola, and TD Ameritrade. His Tri-X and T-Max film pictures appear in the books Great Chicago Stories and After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis. Over the years, his shooting gear has become lighter and lighter which helps him focus on the most important matter — the subject.
Marina Makropoulos
Marina Makropoulos is a portrait artist and documentary photographer who is passionate about creating meaningful work. She studied fine art at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia before moving to California to study photojournalism at Brooks Institute of Photography. She worked as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in Illinois for half a decade before venturing out into the freelance market. She currently creates photographic portraiture and photographic essays in her Chicago studio and on location.
Not an APA member? Now is a great time to join APA and receive up to a 50% discount on each image you enter.
Exhibition Night is scheduled for the end of April 24, 2025, at Wildman BT Studios in Chicago.
