© Alex Prager

See more of Alex Prager’s work and other PDN’s 30 photographers at PDN’s free seminar series, PDN’s 30: Transitions: Strategies for the Young Working Photographers. The first seminars in this series will held this Monday, March 29th at Pasadena Art Center and Thursday, April 2nd at the Palm Spring Photo Festival.

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© Shahidul Alam

Six years ago this week, the Bangladesh government formed the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to crack down on criminals. Human rights organizations report that RAB has killed more than 1,000 citizens.  ”Crossfire,”  a new photo exhibition by Shahidul Alam that opened in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 22,  examines sites where the extrajudicial killings took place, often before dawn.

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© Sharon Tenenbaum

A Buddhist monk hit a snag while crossing the road. Travel photographer Sharon Tenenbaum was there to capture the moment as he looked “back at me with an embarrassed face and a smile.” This image was included in the winners gallery of the 2010 PDN World In Focus travel photography contest.

All Photos © Rafal Milach

Pictured here is Olya posing for portrait in “Traktir” café, where she waitresses. Behind her is the background painting showing the Russian fleet entering Sevastopol harbor. Warsaw, Poland-based commercial photographer Rafal Milach works on personal projects mostly in Russia and Russian speaking countries. With the help of the Eastern-Central European photographers, he set up the photo collective called Sputnik Photos to show more of what is happening in that region.

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© Lutz Dille, MoMA, NYC, 1959/2004. Gelatin-silver print, 12×16 inches. Stephen Bulger Gallery.

This image will be on display with the Stephen Bulger Gallery currently at the AIPAD show from March 18th-21st. For more details about the AIPAD Photography Show New York, click here. For more work from Lutz Dille and Stephen Bulger gallery, click here.