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August 12 to September 10, 2005
 

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Rough Ridge 360 (360° Panorama)
Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition 2008
First Place in Landscape category
 

Forest Panorama - Howard's Creek
Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition 2006
First Place in Landscape category
(33 foot print used as stage set for performance of Marivaux play in Israel - 2007)

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Child Laborer, Calcutta, 1968
Photo Review 2006 Annual Competition
 

Junk Car, South Dakota, 1993
Photographer's Forum 2006 Annual
 

Agasthiyar Falls - December, 2001
Banff International Photo Competition
Winner, Special Mention, 2004

More People and Ritual

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Humanscape 8: India 2003

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Mr. Willi at Home
Grand Prize Winner 2004
Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition

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Easter at the Boone Mennonite Brethren Church
First Prize Winner, Culture Category
2004 Appalachian Mountain Photo Competition

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Beaver Pond Ice
First Prize Winner, Landscape Category
2004 Appalachian Mountain Photo Competition

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Fallen Tree
Second Prize, Flora & Fauna Category
2004 Appalachian Mountain Photo Competition

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Taboo
NYC, February, 2004

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Door
NYC, February, 2004

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Hands
Chicago, 2003

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Mexico City
September, 2003

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Howard's Creek - October, 2002

More "Acre in Appalachia"

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Grand Teton National Park - May, 2002

More American Landscape

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Heidelberg, Germany - September, 2002

More Heidelberg Walls

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Prometheus Moth - July, 2002

More "Acre in Appalachia"

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Kerala Sign Painters - December, 2001

More People at Work

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Beijing Train Station - August, 1987

More Children

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Madurai Wall - November, 2001

More Walls of India Here and Here

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• Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition 2008. Richard Rapfogel was the first place winner in two categories in the 2008 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition.  His photograph entitled Rainy Woods - Through the Window won first prize in the Landscape category; and his 360° panorama, Rough Ridge 360 won first prize in the Blue Ridge Parkway Vistas category.   There were more than 800 submissions for this year's competition.  Rapfogel has won at least one First Prize in four of the five years during which the competition has taken place (he was a judge in the 2007 Competition and ineligible to submit).
• Forest Panorama chosen for stage set.  A 33-foot print of Forest Panorama - Howard's Creek was chosen as the stage set for a production of the play "The Dispute" , by Pierre Marivaux mounted by the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Photo Review 2006 Annual International Photography Competition. Richard Rapfogel's image, Child Laborer, Calcutta, was chosen for inclusion in the prestigious 2006 Photo Review Annual Competition.  The image was chosen by this year's juror, Philip Brookman, Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
• Photographer's Forum 2006 Annual.  The image Junk Car, South Dakota was chosen for inclusion in this year's Photographer's Forum Annual from among some 20,000 entries.
• Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition 2006. Richard Rapfogel was the first place winner in the Landscape category in the 2006 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition for his photograph entitled Forest Panorama - Howard's Creek.  There were more than 600 submissions for this year's competition.  Rapfogel has won at least one First Prize in each of the first three years of this competition.
• Aicon Gallery New York, 206 Fifth Avenue, New York City.  A solo show entitled "Humanscapes: Photography of India by Richard Rapfogel" appeared at Gallery ArtsIndia in Manhattan.  Consisting of 34 images (and occupying 150 feet of gallery wall space), the show was met with enthusiastic reviews.  (You can view images in show here. You can view show invitation here.)
• Fierce Gods.  Many images by Richard Rapfogel are included in Diane Mines' new book, Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village. 
• Musee d'ethnography, Geneva, Switzerland.  Walls of India.  A show of Richard Rapfogel's "Walls of India" at the Musee d'ethnography in Geneva is planned for 2006.
• Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition 2005. Richard Rapfogel was the first place winner in the Culture category in the 2005 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition for his photograph of a mandolin player in a music "jam" at the Todd General Store, Todd, North Carolina.  He also won second place in the Flora and Fauna category for his photograph of a crawdad in Howard's Creek near Boone, North Carolina.
• "Water Water Everywhere" Group Show.  Richard Rapfogel participated in an invitational group show of images with water-related themes at the Mazie Jones Gallery of the Watauga County (North Carolina) Arts Council in Boone, North Carolina.  The show exhibited twelve of Rapfogel's images from the U.S., Sweden, Germany, and India.
• "Stark Contrasts" Group Show.  Two Rapfogel photographs were included in an invitational group show by the Ashe County (North Carolina) Arts Council, featuring black and white imagery in a variety of media.  Rapfogel's contributions, Beaver Pond Ice and a "wall" image from Lund, Sweden, although color photographs, were chosen because of the stark monotone of their subject matter.  
• Banff International Photography Competition.  Richard Rapfogel's image of Two Women in Agasthiyar Falls (Tamilnadu, India) won Special Mention in the Banff International Photography Competition -- one of twelve winning images out of some 3000 entries. 
• Everyday Life in South Asia.  Richard Rapfogel photographs included in cover art of Everyday Life in South Asia, edited by Diane Mines and Sarah Lamb.
• Encyclopedia of South Asian Folklore.  Richard Rapfogel photographs chosen to illustrate many entries in the Encyclopedia of South Asian Folklore.
• Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition 2004.  Richard Rapfogel won grand prize in the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition for an image of the late folk artist, William Armstrong, entitled "Mr. Willi at Home".  In addition Rapfogel was the first place winner in the Landscape and Culture categories and second place in the Flora and Fauna category with images entitled respectively "Beaver Pond Ice," "Easter at the Boone Mennonite Brethren Church," and "Fallen Tree." 
• North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grant. Richard Rapfogel was awarded a 2003 Regional Artist Project Grant by the Arts Councils of Western North Carolina for development of a book featuring his "Walls" photographs in India and elsewhere.
• Recipient of third prize in the ASiA Photo Contest, sponsored by the Asian Studies in Amsterdam program.
• San Francisco show.  A show entitled "India - Recent Photographs by Richard Rapfogel" appeared at Progressive Grounds, 400 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco, CA.
• Hands Gallery. Richard Rapfogel was juried-in as a member of Hands Gallery, an artist-owned cooperative gallery in Boone, NC. 
• The Jones House.  The Mazie Jones Gallery of the Watauga Country Arts Council's Jones House featured a one-person show of Richard Rapfogel's photography during the month of January, 2003, entitled "Photographs of India -- the Photography of Richard Rapfogel."