Tara Kerzhner Wins Squamish Exposed 2019

On Aug. 24, over 1,000 climbers gathered at the Arc’teryx Climbing Academy for the Squamish Exposed photo competition. Six of the industry’s best photographers, six Arc’teryx athletes and six members of the public climb for 48 hours of continuous shooting.

This year, the photographers were Tara Kerzhner, Joe Segreti, Ted Hesser, Pete Hoang, Irene Yee and Alex Eggermont. Their finished slideshows went head to head on Saturday night and the three judges had to select who had the best imagery, photo editing and creative slideshow presentation.

In the end, Tara Kerzhner, who won in 2018, took top spot with her slideshow that had a Stranger Things theme. In second was Eggermont and in third was Hesser. The Arc’teryx event wrapped up on Sunday under sunny skies.

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Making pretty pictures these last few days up in Squamish for the @arcteryxacademy #squamishexposed event. If you’re around Squamish tonight, come downtown to the photo show down to see photo slide shows from a gaggle of talented picture takers such as @pete.hoang @tedhesser @a.eggermont @joe_segreti and @ladylockoff!Hopefully the sleep deprivation didn’t cause me to totally botch the edit ?

A post shared by Tara Kerzhner (@tarakerzhner) on Aug 24, 2019 at 2:30pm PDT