2007
Overall Scholarship Recipient
$1,500 Scholarship

Francisco Tafoya
ONATE HIGH

"Ever since I was 5 years old I have always found a way to be creative. My days then were filled with moments of invention or concepts. After years of practice and dedication to the arts, I can honestly say that I am an artist. Every time I create a new piece of art I always take a second to inhale everything around me. As ideas run across my mind, and others swiftly
make their way into my thoughts I invent breath-taking images and create them with photography. Not a day goes by where I don’t try to learn something new about photography to further my knowledge. Anyone with a camera can be a photographer but if one has an eye for subject and emotion, one can possibly change the world."

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