Photo District News has announced the winners of its 2017 PDN Photo Annual competition.
The well-regarded photography website selected 165 winners from thousands of entries across 10 categories. The competition was open to both amateurs and pros.
Have a look at PDN's official page to see more of the winners.
Photographer: Ami Vitale, Category: Magazine/Editorial. Pandas, once dangerously close to extinction, are being sent back to the wild. Following China’s massive captive-breeding program, this series shows the next step in the attempt to save the country’s 'most famous ambassador.'Photographer: Jack Davison, Category: Magazine/Editorial. 'L.A. Noir' features the year’s best actors—including Ruth Negga, Emma Stone, Taraji P. Henson and Denzel Washington—channeling classic film-noir looks and scenarios.Photographer: Jimmy Chin, Category: Sports. For this shoot, Chin accompanied Felipe Camargo while he climbed the Getu Arch in China.Photographer: Julien Grimard, Category: Sports. From a series that captures freestyle mountain biker Matt Macduff attempting the Loop Of Doom, his subsequent crash and injuries.Photographer: Piotr Naskrecki, Category: Personal Work. For the last few years Naskrecki has been documenting the lesser-known animals of Africa, which receive little attention due to their small size or elusive lifestyle. Images in this series were taken in Mozambique, 'one of the least explored countries on the continent, biologically and photographically.'Photographer: Todd Anthony. Category: Advertising/Corporate Work. A summer campaign for UK brand Fab Ice Lollies, “A Sprinkle of Summer Fun.”Photographer: Emile Ducke, Category: Student Work. A portrait of Aidara, a West Siberian village accessible only by boat and home to a small community of Russian Orthodox Old Believers. This faction continues liturgical practices prior to church reforms introduced in the mid-17th century. Life in Aidara, Ducke explains, consists of exhausting agricultural work, and beyond the village is a vast forest, prone to fires that the residents must control in the dry summers.Photographer: Tyler Gray, Category: Personal Work. 'Blue Collar' is an ongoing series that depicts the harsh beauty and big potential of the North American towns that never quite recovered from the 2009 financial crisis that decimated the manufacturing industry.
