Mark Toro
USA

Honorable Mention

"Doorway To The Clouds"

In Downtown Akron, I ran into a doorway to the clouds.

Biography: Mark Toro is a professional award winning photographer, who began making photographs at age sixteen, photographing classic rock acts in concert like Queen, The Who and Genesis. After winning a few early photography awards, he decided on photography as a career. A graduate of Ohio Institute of Photography, he worked twelve years as a corporate photographer, traveling five states for corporate communications, sometimes on a lear jet. Side projects kept the challenges fresh for him to explore and grow in new ways as an artist. Later, he photographed concerts again, this time professionally for...