Cover, Letter from the Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Congratulations to the ten photographers honored in the Spring 2018 edition of Emerging Photographer. We are excited to present the work of photographers who have been chosen as the next rising talent in our industry. They now join photographers previously chosen for Emerging, some of whom have have gone on to be featured in The New York Times and ESPN; to shoot campaigns for Coors Light and Lexus; be selected for PDN’s 30; and exhibit in galleries around the world.

This year's winners have many things in common—vision, ambition, talent—but, most importantly, they share an unwavering desire to capture life around them through their own lens. Joshua Aronson says of his portrait series of emerging artists (pg. 14), “I want people in 20 or 30 years to look back and see what it was like to be a young artist in 2018.” His photos, and those from Mateusz Kowalik and Antonio Privitera, document the beauty in the mundane, and through their images, they craft a visually compelling narration about Góry Suche, Poland, and the Italian coast, respectively, to pinpoint the location's curious identity. Other Emerging winners such as Jonghun Lee, Argus Paul Estabrook and Morukc Umnaber document their subjects—inmates in a Malawi prison, protestors in South Korea and militia in Syria, respectively—from a photojournalistic point of view, integrating themselves with their cameras to share stories with the intent of having a social impact. “I’m very happy if I see that the work helps someone or spreads the word,” Umnaber says of his series, “Battle of Raqqa” (pg. 22).

Their work is presented on the following pages and will also be added to the digital archive of Emerging honorees, which you can access for free by visiting pdnonline.com/emerging-photographer.

—Stacey Goldberg

THANK YOU!

Photographers in this issue will receive a Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III camera, a Canon PIXMA PRO-10 printer, and a $100 B&H Photo gift card.

Part of Stockholm, Sweden-based photographer Gabriel Isak's series "Dazed Delusions," (pg. 30) which tells the story of a woman who drifts into an imaginary world and interacts with the colors, shapes and lines she encounters.

Photo © Gabriel Isak