Freestyle Announces Crystal Apple Award Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Black and White Photography
By Shutterbug Staff July 17, 2007 — The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award, sponsored by Freestyle Photographic Supplies for the past five years, is now The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black & White Photography. In addition to the name change, the eligibility rules for the award will be changed as well: all light-sensitive black and white photographic processes will be eligible for this award, including alternative processes, whereas digital images will not. The amount of the award will remain at $5,000, and will be awarded to one talented Society for Photographic Education (SPE) student member majoring in photography at a college or university.

Freestyle's goal in changing the eligibility of this award is to provide greater support for students working in traditional black and white silver imaging processes. The Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black and White Photography is open to continuing full-time graduate or undergraduate students majoring/concentrating in photography at a degree or certificate-granting college or university. Details regarding the award, eligibility and guidelines can be found on the Society for Photographic Education website: www.spenational.org. The scholarship form will be posted on the website later this summer.