Congratulations to Brent Lewin and Justin Mott who were awarded in the 2012 PDN World in Focus travel photography contest.

William B. Plowman was awarded Second Place in the Feature category and Third Place in the Chris Hondros Memorial International News category of the 2011 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar photo contest for his work this year in Sudan.

Congratulations to Stephen Ferry who was awarded the first Tim Hetherington Grant, established to honor the photographer and filmmaker killed this year in Libya.  Ferry’s work Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, documents the decades-long guerrilla war in Colombia.

Congratulations to Eros Hoagland who was awarded The Aftermath Project’s special grant for conflict photographers.  His project “The Green Room” will explore the many effects that war has on conflict photographers.

Brad Swonetz’s photograph in Wired won the Magazine and Newspaper Design / Entire Magazine award given by Dandad.

Congratulations to John Keatley who won in both the Celebrity/Editorial Portraits and the Environmental Portraiture categories of PDN Faces contest.  His winning portraits were of John Vechey, cofounder of PopCap Games, and young children in Buchanan, Liberia.

Congratulations to Roger Lemoyne who was awarded in the 52nd Communication Arts Photography Annual in the For Sale category for his photograph of the Cairo protests.  View more of Roger’s images of the protests on the Redux Pictures archive here.

Congratulations to Justin Mott, a finalists for Project Imagin8ion presented by Canon.  The winning photograph will inspire a short film produced by Ron Howard.

Congrats to John Keatley for his numerous wins at this year’s Prix de la Photographie Paris competition!

Congrats to Brent Lewin whose photograph of elephant smuggling in Thailand was awarded a silver at this year’s Prix de la Photographie Paris competition.