Free Weekly Photography Contest | Photographer of the Week

From October 13, 2025, to October 19, 2025 – Week 42

Photographer of the Week | Photographer of the Week

United States

Barbed Fence, Stansbury Island from series A Once Great Salt Lake © Bryce Olsen

Behind the Shot: Barbed Fence, Stansbury Island

This image is part of a working series documenting the decline of the Great Salt Lake and the need to preserve it for future generations. A critical ecosystem and a vital part of Utah’s economy, it is now rapidly shrinking due to decades of water diversion, drought, and mismanagement. 2022 brought record low water levels and 2025 is on pace to fall even lower, driving the collapse of bird and brine shrimp populations, fueling toxic dust storms from the exposed lakebed, slashing annual snowfall totals because of reduced lake-effect, and threatening the businesses who contribute to the local economy. This series highlights both the beauty of the environment around the lake, as well as the demise of the industry and ecosystem which have relied, and still do rely, on the lake for their survival.

Expert Juror

Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Photographer, Founder & Editor All About Photo

www.hermandgrisel.com | @allaboutphotocom

Sandrine Hermand-Grisel is a professional photographer who specializes in Fine Art Photography and Printmaking. She grew up in Paris, France and in London, UK before she moved to the United States with her family in 2006. She decided to use her knowledge of the photography world to become the curator of the website, All About Photo, which she founded in 2013. Much more than a cultural agenda, All About Photo is a source of information for photographers and aficionados of photography as well as a showcase platform for talented artists.

An integral part of All About Photo is its annual awards competition, The Mind’s Eye, she has juried over the years with renowned photographers and curators such as Liu Bolin, Ann Jastrab, Ed Kashi, Eli Klein, Jules Maeght, Aline Smithson, Ami Vitale, Judy Walgren, Sabine Weiss, Frank Horvat, Elizabeth Avedon and many more. She also juried competitions and shows for A Smith Gallery, Darkroom Gallery, Gomma Photography Grant, Rayko Photo Center, L.A. & N.Y. Photo Curator, Emerge UK Prize, The PhotoPlace Gallery, Praxis Gallery, The Young Photographer's Award and others.

Sandrine Hermand-Grisel's work has been published in books and magazines as well as exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide.

While still working on personal projects, she now spends most of her time discovering new talents for All About Photo. She is also working on the new AAP Magazine committed exclusively to the publication of portfolios.