Oscar Lozoya

M.Photog.Cr.,CPP

    Oscar Lozoya's favorite pastime as a child was drawing and painting. In his early teens he took up music and for many years made his living as a professional musician. Oscar discovered photography and soon knew it was what he wanted to do. Oscar opened Lozoya Studios in his old South Broadway neighborhood in Albuquerque, NM shooting commercial photography specializing in people: Album covers, posters, press kits, ads, magazines spreads, etc. He found that much of the same technique and models used in Commercial Photography could also be used in Fine Art Photography.

    Among the awards his work has received are: 12 time Photographer/Director of the Year through the Professional Photographers Association of New Mexico. In 2004, 1998, and 1997 Oscar received the Highest Print Case Score in the Southwest from the Southwestern Professional Photographers Association. He has also received the Regional Medallion Award through the American Society of Photographers in 2009, 2005 and 2003. Oscar began entering print competition in The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) in 1996 and has had 29 prints accepted into the National Loan Collection. In 1999 he received The Master of Photography degree on print merits only, that same year he received The Photographic Craftsman degree on speaking merits only. In 2003 Oscar Lozoya became one of the first photographers to receive the newly created Excellence in Imaging Award from the PPA that requires a minimum of 13 national loan prints to qualify. In 2009 he was one of less than 30 photographers worldwide to receive the newly created PLUS XIII bar. The Professional Photographers of America has also selected Lozoya's images for a full page National Ad Campaign. Oscar is a Past President of the Professional Photographers Association of New Mexico and currently serves on the Board of Directors.

    Several of the largest equipment and materials manufactures in the photography industry have also used his images to promote their products. Lozoya has traveled extensively around the United States and Latin Countries doing lectures and seminars in both English and Spanish.

    Oscar's artwork is exhibited in museums internationally. Lozoya's photographic art is represented in the United States by the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe and in Latin America by Dr. Enrique Cortazar of The National Fine Arts Institute of Mexico. Amherst Media publishes Oscar's books on black and white photography titled “Fine Art Portrait Photography” and “The Art of Black and White Portrait Photography”. Oscar is currently is working on the completion of his next book.