2024-2025 Round 1 – Judges’ Bio

Ann Alimi

Ann is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography for both film and digital media. She has been a Master level photographer at the Toronto Camera Club, is currently an Advanced member of the Toronto Digital Photography Club and has been a Certified Judge for the Canadian Association of Photographic Art and currently for the Ontario Council of Camera Clubs. 

She has completed the Individualized Photography Course and the Image Analysis Course Certificate with the Photographic Society of America, has won several photographic awards, and has her photos published in magazines such as Canadian Camera Magazine, Pro Digital Imaging, Digital Camera World, Photo Life, The Outpost Travel Magazine and Digital Photographer.

 In 2011 Ann was awarded the “Distinguished Canadian Photographer ” award by the Toronto International Salon of Photography and in 2018 she was awarded Fellowship Honours (FCAPA) from Canadian Association of Photographic Art and received the “Photographer of the Year ” award by the Ontario Council of Camera Clubs. 

Ann is currently the Chair of Audio-Visual Presentations for the Toronto Digital Photography Club, having previously chaired same for the Canadian Association for Photographic Art, and the Photographic Society of America. She is currently an active participant in photography competitions, public presentations, workshops, and the judging of Photography and Audio-Visual Presentations Competitions Nationally and Internationally.

Brian Greenway

Brian Greenway‘s lifelong love of photography began when he started taking photos for the Queen’s University student newspaper- The Journal. Despite the chemical exposure in the dark room, he survived to become an educator and principal for the Durham Board of Education for more than 32 years.

After his “starter” career, Brian was finally freed to breathe life into his art, taking professional workshops in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Laos. His main interest is in travel photography, but his work features an eclectic mix of landscapes, artistic distortions, cityscapes, black-and-white and high dynamic range images ( weird looking ones).

Brian continues to use his educational background to teach others the craft. He’s been an instructor for the photographic arts, as well as for Adobe, and other imaging software. Brian was a founding member of the Clarington Camera Club and has served as a competition judge for the Greater Toronto Council of Camera Clubs for over 10 years.

June West

I have belonged to the Etobicoke Camera Club for almost twenty years, and have found viewing other people’s images and listening to judge’s comments very helpful to my own development.  I try to give back for all the help I have received by being a judge myself.  I enjoy seeing what other clubs are doing.  I am a generalist in terms of subject matter, but have a decided preference for nature, particularly insects and close up photography, as well as creative altered reality.  I grew up in Prince Edward County in the country, and now live right beside High Park in Toronto, always interesting. In addition to discovering in the field, I LOVE editing and playing around with Photoshop, Nik and Topaz software. I used to use a Canon, but now use a Sony RX10 Mark IV.