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Every month, PDN magazine delivers unbiased news and analysis, interviews, photography portfolios, and information photographers need to survive in a competitive business.
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Ansel Adams once said: “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” PDN Faces recognizes the powerful portraits that photographers make, including assignment and personal work, plus celebrity, animal and kids portraiture.Professional and amateur photographers are judged separately, and are eligible for prizes that include $1,500 and $2,500 cash, one-page features in PDN and more. All winners will be celebrated in the January 2017 issue of PDN and on pdnonline.com, shared with our network of more than 460,000 readers and followers. 5,000 additional copies of PDN will be sent directly to photo-industry creatives looking to hire new and established talent.
THERE'S NO RISK TO ENTER
All photographers retain their copyright. Winning work will only be published in the print and online winners' gallery and in promotion related to the Faces contest.
CATEGORIES
- Animal Portraits
- Babies/Children
- Commercial/Editorial/Assignment
- Celebrities
- Personal Work
- Self-Portraits
ENTRY FEE
- Professional: $40 (single); $45 (series*)
- Amateur: $20 (single); $30 (series*)
Rewards
GRAND-PRIZE WINNER professional
$2 500GRAND-PRIZE WINNER amateur
$1 500
+ One-page feature in PDN
+ $500 B&H gift card
+ Lomo' Instant Automat Glass Magellan camera
+ $500 B&H gift card
+ Lomo' Instant Automat Glass Magellan camera
(10) FIRST-PLACE WINNERS
+ $100 B&H gift card+ Lomo' Instant San Remo camera
GRAND and FIRST-PLACE WINNERS
+ One-year PHOTO+ Basic Membership+ 3-Day Pass to WPPI Conference and Expo or PhotoPlus Expo
+ All winners will be published in PDN and in a gallery on pdnonline.com, which reaches an audience of over 460,000 readers, followers and photo-industry creatives.
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