“Ice Cream.” © Brian Callaway. Grand prize winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Professional: Babies/Children category.

The deadline for PDN’s Faces Photo Contest 2013 is approaching. Folks can enter their work in a variety of categories: animal portraits, commercial/editorial/assignment, personal work, babies/children and self portraits. The grand-prize winner receives on-campus photography workshops from Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, CO. Not too shabby!

© Dave Lauridsen. Winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Professional: Commercial/Editorial/Assignment category.

© Sarah Lim. Winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Amateur: Personal Work category.

 © Jesse Ditmar. First place winner of PDN Faces 2012 in the Professional: Personal category.

“Self-portrait with Donovan at 4 a.m.” © Joe Toreno. First place winner in the Professional: Self Portraits category.

© Erik Madigan Heck for Stockland Martel

This image was shot for Mary Katrantzou, a Greek fashion designer who currently lives and works in London. It is the fourth collaboration between young designer Mary Katrantzou and photographer Erik Madigan Heck takes the form of a black & white photo series and a short film inspired by Katrantzou’s autumn/winter 2013 collection. The title: “Cathedrals.”  Erik Madigan Heck is the 29th Annual Infinity Awards 2013 recipient of the Applied/Fashion/Advertising category. The Infinity Awards ceremony takes place this evening, May 1st, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers. Other winners include David Goldblatt for the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement, Kitra Cahana for Young Photographer and David Guttenfelder for Photojournalism.

“Abandoned Factory.”  All Images © Tamas Dezso

Budapest based photographer Tamas Dezso says he began the series “Romania,” to photograph the scenes of a world irreversibly decaying, the transformation of a Balkan country surviving the region’s hardest dictatorship.

Dezso was the Photo Essay/Reportage category winner of last year’s PDN’s The Curator Awards: The search for outstanding and undiscovered fine-art photography. The early deadline for the 2013 Curator Awards is March 26, 2013. For more information visit:  http://www.pdncuratorawards.com.

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All images © Steven Laxton

Steven Laxton’s portrait series, “Circo El Salvador,” documents nomadic circus families of El Salvador who perform in rural and impoverished areas of Central America. This form of entertainment is an important escape for those who live in remote areas of the country where they face not only poverty, but also the highest homicide rate in the world. This photographic series placed in the “personal” category of the 2012 PDN Photo Annual  and was the winner of the $15,000 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.

The 2013 PDN Photo Annual is now open for entries through January 29. With your entry you can opt to have your portraiture considered for the 2013 Arnold Newman Prize. For more information and to enter the contest, visit: http://pdnphotoannual.com

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© Miho Aikawa

From “Engagement in Tokyo,” an adorable collection of engagement photos shot by Miho Aikawa. This photograph won the the Grand Prize place in the 2012 Top Knots: The new school of wedding photography contest. The 2013 Top Knots contest is open now for submissions.