Keith A Manning Photography
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We're Going to Paris for Two Exhibitions!
Prix de la Photographie Paris and State of the World
2025 Winners Celebration and Exhibition 
November 9 - 14, 2025 at Gallerie 24b, 24 bis Rue Saint Roch,
75001 Paris, France
Two entrees in the State of the World Exhibition:
Jews Protest to Free Palestinian Abducted by ICE
120,000 Hands Off! Protest in New York City

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Art-Icon's Sex and Politics
November 13 - 15, 2025, 74 Bd Richard-Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France

Radiance, from Womb Creatures Dance Performance, 2023
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2025 International Photography Awards: 1st Prize; Editorial/Press, Political
​Different Faces With Different Statements at NYC No Kings! Protest
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2025 International Photography Awards: 3rd Place; Event, Social Cause
120,000 March at New York City Hands Off! Protest
Photos from Sicily in October 2025


​Award-Winning Images
The slide show below includes images that have won international awards

Photographs from Graham Nash Concert  at Hampton Bays, 10 July 2025


​Photographic Prints for Sale!
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ARTIST STATEMENT

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I currently reside in Brooklyn, New York. My preferred photographic medium is black and white. I find the creative process of visualizing, making a photograph and printing in greyscale particularly exhilarating. I depend on the existing light in any scene.

My portraits are motivated by my love of dance, jazz and classical music and my deep respect and admiration for the performers. The techniques of my portraiture are inspired by the musicians’ intimacy with their music and instrument and the dancers’ ability to fuse their hearts, minds and movements to convey their message. I emphasize the details of their faces and bodies to transmit the emotional intensity during a performance. Sometimes I utilize motion blur to achieve the same result. 

My journalistic portraiture, landscape and event photography is motivated by my support to specific social causes and the struggle for social justice around the world.

My landscapes are motivated by the creativity and beauty of nature. Natural lighting, clouds and water moving at different speeds, contrasted with static scenery, create dramatic landscape images. By manipulating a scene with longer exposures, I seek to enhance tonal variations and complex textures, transforming an interesting image into an unusually unique and unworldly piece of art.

My intent is for the viewer to travel into the photographic scene and absorb the emotions, energy and serenity the landscape, the person or the scene emits. 

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International Recognition and Photography Awards
2025 Independent Exhibition "Sex and Politics" alongside Paris Photo, November 13-16; by Art-Icon 
Curated selection for Paris international group exhibition
       Radiance (Womb Creatures Series), 2023
2025 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris State of the World Curated Exhibition, November 9-10
       Finalist and Curatorial Selection for Paris Exhibition
            120,000 Hands Off! Protest in New York City
            Jews Protest to Free Palestinian Abducted by ICE

2025 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris Juried Awards
       Silver Press/Political - Professional (series)
           Faces From New York City No Kings! Protest
       Silver Press/Political - Professional
            Immigrants Make America Great
       
Bronze Press/People/Personality - Professional
           Faces From New York City No Kings! Protest 
        Bronze Nature/Other - Professional
           Bisti Wilderness Moon Rising
        Bronze Nature/Panoramic - Professional
           Moon Lights Up Bisti Wilderness
        Honorable Mention Portraiture/Personality - Professional
           Graham Nash at Hampton Bays Concert
        Honorable Mention Nature/Landscape - Professional
           Golden Hour at Bisti Wilderness
2025 International Photography Awards
       First Place Editorial/Press, Political Category
           Different Faces With Different Statements at NYC No Kings! Protest, 2025
       Third Place Event, Social Cause Category
           120,000 March at New York City Hands Off! Protest, 2025
       Honorable Mention Event, Social Cause Category
           Immigrants Make America Great, 2025
       
Honorable Mention Nature Panoramic Category
           Háifoss and Granni Waterfalls, 2024
       
Honorable Mention Nature Environmental/Editorial
           Last Drops of Water, 2022
      
Honorable Mention Special Panoramic Category
           Moon Lights Up Bisti Wilderness, 2025
2025 Monovisions Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention Landscapes Category
          ​Golden Hour at Bisti Wilderness, 2025
2025 International Color Awards
       Honorable Mention Aerial Category
          Dragon's Breath (Color version), 2024
New Visions Photography Awards 2025 Competition Gallery Selection (LensCulture editors)
          Alien Invasion, 2016
2024 Monochrome Awards
       Honorable Mention Landscape Category
           Frozen River Crossing at Mt. Hekla, 2024
2024 ND Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention Nature-Aerial Category
          Dragon's Breath (color version), 2024
2024 Exposure One Photographer of the Year
       First Place Aerial Category
          Dragon's Breath (Black and White version), 2024
       
People's Vote Award Aerial Category 
          Dragon's Breath (Black and White version), 2024
       
Honorable Mention Wildlife Category
          Osprey at Work, 2024
2024 Black and White Spider Awards
       Honorable Mention: Nature Category
          Dancing Above Urriðafoss, 2024
2024 APA-NY 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition (juried by Michael Foley) at Soho Photo Gallery, December 3 -8
          Rider Under the Storm, 2024
2024 International Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention Special/Smart Phone Photography Category
          Walking on Thin Ice, 2024
       Honorable Mention Wildlife Category
​          Osprey At Work, 2024
2024 reFocus Black and White Photo Contest
       Honorable Mention Professional Landscape Category (Series)
          Light, Ice, Fire and Water of Iceland (5 images)
                  Dancing Above Urridafoss (2024), Dragon's Breath (2024), Starbright Gljufrabui (2024),
                  Glow of Kirkjufell (2016), Ice Etching (2022)

2024 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris State of the World Curated Exhibition
       Finalist and Curatorial Selection for Paris Exhibition
          Unexpected Voices of Dissent, 2024
2024 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris Juried Awards
       Bronze Winner Architecture / Bridges Category
          Window View of Brooklyn Bridge, 2012
       Honorable Mention Special/Smart Phone Photography Category
          Walking on Thin Ice, 2024
       Honorable Mention Press / Political Category
          Woman With A Message From Gaza, 2024
2024 Exposure One Black and White Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention Aerial Category
          Sunndhnúkaggígar Breathing Fire, 2024
       Honorable Mention Photojournalism Category
          Sunndhnúkaggígar Attack on Grindavik, 2024
2024 International Color Awards
       Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
          Smokey Serenity, 2017
       Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
          Alone In Hurricane Winds, 2022     
2023 APA-NY 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition (juried by Brian Paul Clamp) at Soho Photo Gallery, December 5 - 10
         Feathers (Womb Creatures Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company), 2023
       Dancer, Cecilia Mitchell (Womb Creatures Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company), 2023
       Dancer, Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens (Womb Creatures Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company), 2023

2023 reFocus Black and White Photo Contest
       Honorable Mention: Photojournalism Category
         Melting Fingers Pointing at the Culprit, 2022
       Honorable Mention: Nature Category
          Aurora On Steroids, 2022
2023 Black and White Spider Awards
       Honorable Mention: Nature Category
          Alone, 2022
2023 International Photography Awards 
       Honorable Mention: Event-Other (Series)
         Womb Creatures (Dance Performance by Alma Dance Company), 2023
2023 International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective
       Honorable Mention: Photographic Essay
         Nature's Revenge, A Clarion Call; Conservation Category, 2022
2023 Monovisions Photography Awards

       Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
         Vessels of Life, 2022
       Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes Category
         Edge of the Earth, 2022
       Honorable Mention: Series, Abstract Art Category
         Glacial Abstract Art, 2022
       Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
         Dance Performance: Womb Creatures, 2023    
2023 International Color Awards
       Honorable Mention Amateur Nature Category
         Vestrahorn Time Tunnels, 2022
2022, Saphira & Ventura Collateral Exhibition at 2022 Venice Biennale
        Swing'n With the Bass, 2012
        Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser; 2012
         Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
​        Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018

2022 Monochrome Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
         Vessels of Life, 2022
       Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
         Tentacles, 2022
2021 Photographs Purchased by Monarch XOF Producer, TV Series on Fox Broadcasting (The first two images appeared on the trailer and in one episode.)
        Alien Invasion, 2016
        Swing’n With the Bass, 2012
        Violin in Central Park, Susan Keser, 2012
        Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016

2021 International Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
         Blow Your Mind (Chief Adjuah, formerly Christian Scott), 2018
       Honorable Mention: Event, Social Cause Category
         Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
       
Honorable Mention: Special Smartphone Photography Category
         Blackbird Over the Bay, 2020
       Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape Category
         Storm Over Gullfoss, 2018
2021 Epson International Pano Awards
       Bronze Award
          After Midnight Icelandic Serenity, 2016
2021 Monovisions Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention: Single, Photojournalism Category
         Drumbeat of Juneteenth 2020
       Honorable Mention: Single, Nature and Wildlife Category
         Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 International Photography Awards
       3rd Place: Event (Series), Social Cause Category
         7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in Brooklyn, NY; 2020
      
Honorable Mention: People, Portrait Category
         Hope and Despair, 2020
2020 International Photography OneShot Awards
       Honorable Mention: Movement, Nature
         Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
2020 Monovisions Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
         Costa Brava Art, 2019
       Honorable Mention: Series, Landscapes Category
         Black Beach Art, 2018
       Honorable Mention: Series, People Category
         7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
       Honorable Mention: Single, Landscapes
         Living Atop the World, 2019    
2020 PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris
       Honorable Mention: Nature, Landscapes Category
         Glow of Kirkjufell, 2016
       Honorable Mention: Street Photography, Special
​         7pm Appreciation of Frontline Heroes in NYC, 2020
2020 ND Awards
       Honorable Mention: Nature (Series), Other Category
         Unworldly Iceland, 2016 and 2018
       Honorable Mention: Nature, Seascapes/Waterscapes Category
         Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Black and White Spider Awards
       Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
         Hope and Despair, 2020
       Honorable Mention: Photojournalism
         Difficult Day, 2020
       Honorable Mention: Portrait
          Sax on Juneteenth (Michael Jorden), 2020
2020 Monochrome Photography Awards
       Honorable Mention: Amateur Nature Category
         Pulse of a Storm, 2020
2020 Chromatic Awards
      Honorable Mention: Nature Category
        Sunrise on Fire, 2015
2019 International Photography Awards
      Honorable Mention: Fine Art, Landscape (Series) Category
         Black Beach Art, 2018
      Honorable Mention: Event, Concert Category
         Jazz Bass, 2019
2019 Epson International Pano Awards
       Bronze Award
         Alpenglow in the Dolomites at Sunrise, 2015
2019 Chromatic Awards
      Honorable Mention: Nature Category
         Approaching Paradise, 2013
2019 Monochrome Photography Awards
      Honorable Mention: Amateur Landscape Category
         Icelandic Sculpture, 2018
       Honorable Mention: Amateur Portrait Category
          Jazz Bass (Felipe Cabrera), 2019
National Geographic editor favorited photo 28 September 2017
         Moraine Lake at Sunrise With Smokey Sky
2013 Prix De La Photographie Paris
       Peoples Choice First Prize
         Approaching Paradise, 2013





  
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