The Exposure Award is a photography award and a global celebration of the image, which awards over $25,000 in prizes and international exposure.
Photo District News (PDN) and PDNOnline, the award-winning publications for the professional photographer, have covered every aspect of the professional photographic industry for over 30 years. PDN delivers the information photographers need to survive in a competitive business–from marketing and business advice to legal issues, cutting-edge photographic techniques, new technologies and more.
PDN published its first PDN’s 30 issue in 1999. Photographers selected for past PDN’s 30 issues have become some of today’s most acclaimed and prolific photographers.
The photographers of PDN’s 30 2019: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, and highlighted work by many of PDN’s 30 photographers from the past 20 years.
Every year since 1999, the editors of PDN have selected 30 emerging photographers who represent a variety of styles and genres and have demonstrated a distinctive vision, creativity, and versatility. This year, the editors reviewed the work of close to 300 photographers from around the world.
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Each year the editors of PDN choose 30 new and emerging photographers to watch. In interviewing them for the profiles published in PDN, we gain new insights into the rapidly changing photo industry, and what it takes to launch a photography career today.
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The Exposure Award is a photography award and a global celebration of the image, which awards over $25,000 in prizes and international exposure.
Each year since 1999, the editors of PDN have selected 30 emerging photographers who represent a variety of styles and genres and have demonstrated a distinctive vision, creativity, and versatility.
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During the 15 years PDN has created this special issue dedicated to “new and emerging photographers to watch,” we’ve profiled 450 photographers and reviewed the work of thousands more talented individuals.
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Photo District News is proud to present all of the winners of the 2013 Great Outdoors photo contest. Special Congratulations to Professional grand-prize winner, Matt Dayka, and amateur grand-prize winner, Rick Sereque. The professional first-place winners are Andrew Peacock, Jeff Schultz, Michele Westmorland and Kristin Braga Wright, and amateur first-place winners are Ben Adkison, Raed Al-Jawad, Andrei Duman and Mary Gretchen Kaplan.
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Photo District News (PDN), the award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer, will present winners from “The Curator“, PDN’s annual platform for outstanding and undiscovered fine art.
Learn MorePhotographers chosen for PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch will share the useful lessons they learned as they launched their careers. The panelists will discuss planning and funding personal projects, their strategies for promoting their work to potential clients and galleries, and how they built a support network.
Learn MorePhotographers chosen for PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers will share useful lessons they learned as they launched their careers, explain how they got their work seen and noticed, and offer advice on finding your style and building support for personal projects.
Learn MorePhotographers featured in PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers will explain how they got their work seen and noticed, and offer advice on how to share, promote and get support for personal projects.
Learn MorePhotographers featured in PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to watch will explain how they got their work seen and noticed, and offer advice for sharing, promoting and getting support for their personal projects.
Learn MorePhotographers featured in PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to watch will explain how they got their work seen and noticed, and offer advice for sharing, promoting and getting support for their personal projects.
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