It’s always interesting to look at PDN‘s ‘Top Thirty‘, the annual choice of new and emerging photographers to watch made with the help of a number of industry figures, and this year’s crop is I think a good one. As usual there are a few names I already recognise among them, but mostly they are new to me. And most of them have work that I find interesting, and I’ll go back later and have a look through their portfolios – so far I’ve just clicked through to see the 3 pictures per photographer in the Flash presentation and read the brief biographies there.
This is the list of this year’s Top 30:
- Levi Brown
- Alejandro Cartagena
- Scott Conarroe
- Sumit Dayal
- Clémence de Limburg
- Gratiane de Moustier
- Danfung Dennis
- Lauren Dukoff
- Matt Eich
- Matthieu Gafsou
- Marcelo Gomes
- Deborah Hamon
- Estelle Hanania
- Ben Hoffmann
- Sohrab Hura
- Wayne Lawrence
- Brent Lewin
- Eman Mohammed
- Adrian Mueller
- Nick Onken
- Alex Prager
- Thomas Prior
- Ben Roberts
- Anna Skladmann
- Andy Spyra
- Gabriele Stabile
- Peter van Agtmael
- Elizabeth Weinberg
- Yang Yi
- Reed Young
You can still see the work from earlier years, including 2009 and also 2008 when I think they presented it rather better. Nice to have a list of photographers down the side of the page. And interesting to read them and reflect that the only ones I recognise now are probably the same ones I recognised when I first saw this list two years ago.
2007 is here and you can also access this and earlier years via the archive page, which conveniently also lists the winners from 1999-2007. Interesting to read through and find how many names are now familiar.