SPS Member: 2007 to Present
Elected to Hall of Fame in 2023
A member of the Springfield Photographic Society since 2007, Barbara Krawczyk loves a challenge, not confining her photography to a single genre.
Barbara, who grew up in South Dakota, is always looking for ways to broaden her knowledge and share her love of photography. She has earned many club awards, including two image-of-the-year honors, and has been recognized for her achievements by the Photographic Society of America.
Eileen Donelan said, “Barbara can certainly be described as a photography enthusiast. It is not enough to say she participates in SPS club activities. Barbara has been a role model for how to support a club. She can be counted on to not only participate in club projects and exhibits, but to be one of the few who behind the scenes does the work to organize, select and prepare SPS work for local exhibits.”
Barbara has been a photography enthusiast since childhood. Her first camera was a Brownie, her favorite photo she took as a child is of an elk standing in the Yellowstone River.
Now, “I specialize in not specializing,” Barbara said. “I am always seeking varied challenges and practicing new styles of photography and editing.”
She was president of the Westfield Camera Club for more than 10 years after joining in 1997 and has had two stints as SPS secretary and board member.
A member of the Photographic Society of America since 1998, Barbara has won numerous medals, judge’s choice awards and honorable mentions in PSA-sponsored international photographic exhibitions. A portrait she took was featured in PSA’s 75th anniversary book. She has also been recognized in PSA “Who’s Who in Photography” numerous times. She’s been successful in NECCC interclub competitions and at the NECCC conference competition at UMass. For the 2019-2020 season, the NECCC awarded her Image of the Year for Class A Pictorial in its digital competition.
Barbara went to Purdue University in Indiana (1969-1973) and received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management with a minor in nuclear engineering. “I was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and was active in women’s organizations and the Symphony band and orchestra,” she said. She worked in San Diego at General Atomics, in Connecticut with Combustion Engineering, in Westfield with Instrument Technology, Inc., and now in Springfield with Pearson Professional Center.
Congratulations to Barbara on her election to the Springfield Photographic Society Hall of Fame.
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