Share your Photos of South Amboy’s Dynamic Businesses!

Press Release

SOUTH AMBOY – The Dowdell Library of South Amboy invites avid shutterbugs to enter the library’s Fall Photo Contest. Celebrate our community through the art of photography, and contribute to the Library’s local history picture collection.

All photo entries must feature a SOUTH AMBOY BUSINESS. The submission should be a clearly identifiable image of an interior or exterior place of business.

Photographs should be taken between September 1 and October 31 and submitted by November 15, 2018. Contestants may submit up to five high resolution DIGITAL images to: comments@dowdell.org; open to amateur photographers only. 

Please include the location of the photograph, the date the photograph was taken, your name, and contact information.

Important photo release!  Photographs that contain recognizable people must be accompanied by a release form signed by each person photographed. If individuals are under the age of eighteen, their parent or legal guardian must sign the photo release.

Awards will be based on artistic distinction and historical value.  Awards will be presented for the best “South Amboy” photograph, the Runner-up, and one for the best “architectural” photograph.  Winners will be announced at the library’s HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE on Monday, December 3 at 7:30 pm.

By entering the contest, participants allow the library to use the images in library publications, their website/social media or in future exhibits; photographers will be credited.  

For further details, please contact the Dowdell Library of South Amboy at 732-721-6060 or comments@dowdell.org. The Library is located off John T. O’Leary Blvd – adjacent to the South Amboy High School.