Professional photographers, aspiring photographers and students should enter this competition today! Winners will earn cash prizes, free websites and photobooks, and — best of all — worldwide exposure to a very influential global audience.

Deadline for entries is September 15, 2009.

Lens Culture International Exposure Awards discover, recognize, reward, and promote talented, new, emerging and established photographers from around the world.

We’re looking for exciting images from every continent, and from diverse points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, street photography, poetic, personal, abstract, and human.

Full details at: www.lensculture.com/contest.

Prizes will be awarded, and all winning photographs will be exhibited online, prominently, to coincide with Lens Culture’s extra-special Paris Photo Edition in November 2009.

A stellar international jury of photography experts will review and judge every photograph submitted:

Stephen Mayes, director of VII Photo in New York, and former chair of the World Press Photo competition.

Sujong Song, director of several international photo festivals, curator, author, and editor based in Seoul, South Korea.

Xavier Canonne, director of the Musée de la Photographie, in Charleroi, Belgium.

Mary Virginia Swanson, expert in marketing and licensing fine art, lecturer and author: mvswanson.com and www.marketingphotos.wordpress.com.

Christopher Rauschenberg, photographer, author, co-founder and board member of Photolucida, and co-curator and board chairman of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland.

Stefanie Braun, curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, and organizer and curator of the annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

Jim Casper, editor and publisher of Lens Culture.

Special thanks to our prize co-sponsors: liveBooks.com and Blurb.com.

And thanks, too, to the American Society of Media Photographers, for helping to craft and refine the rules for the competition.

About Lens Culture

Lens Culture is one of the most popular and influential online magazines about contemporary photography today. The site attracts 7,000 to 8,000+ unique visitors every day, from more than 50 countries (over 2 million visits each year). Our audience includes photography collectors, photo editors, book publishers, museum curators, art gallery owners, agents, critics, journalists, festival directors, and other passionate lovers of photography. Several artists whose photographs have gained attention as a result of their exposure in Lens Culture have won book publishing contracts, solo and group art gallery shows, museum exhibitions, participation in international photography festivals, and commissions from around the world. Select artists are offered the opportunity to sell limited editions of their work through Lens Culture Editions, earning them thousands of dollars from sales to international art collectors.

So, enter today, and good luck!