Last year, photographers from 48 countries on 6 continents submitted more than 6,000 photographs to the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards.

All 29 of last year’s winners and honorable mentions have continued to achieve notable success with their photography careers. As of September 2010, they will have featured in more than 30 exhibitions worldwide, been published in over 50 different publications and received more than 20 additional awards. Many of the winners have also earned grants, won valuable commissions, and sold prints to both public and private collectors. Several earned gallery representation and places in mentoring and further study programs.

Here is a selection of the achievements of the 2009 winners of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards:

Exhibited at the following venues:

24th Festival International de Mode et de la Photographie à Hyères, Hyères, France
Arbetets Museum, Norrkjøping, Sweden
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
De Verdieping, Veldhoven, Netherlands
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Flash Forward Festival 2010, Toronto, Canada
Fotografiens Hus, Oslo, Norway
FotoWeek DC 2010, Washington DC, USA
Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Galleri Gerner, Moss, Norway
Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, Sweden
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, USA
Kunsthalle, Charlottenburg, Denmark
Ministry for Spatial Planning VROM, The Hague, Netherlands
Montparnasse FNAC, Paris, France
Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego, CA, USA
Onward 2010, Project Basho, UK
Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, USA
Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Photoplace Gallery, Vermont, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA
Slow Exposures, Pike County, Georgia, USA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
The Art of Photography Show 2010, San Diego, CA, USA
The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, NY, USA
The National Portrait Gallery London, UK
The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, USA
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME, USA
Woodmere Triennial, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
World Press Photo – World tour 2010

Featured in these publications:

2010 World Press Photo annual
Adbusters, online
American Photography 25th Anniversary Annual, USA
BBC online, UK
Bite! Magazine, online
British Journal of Photography, UK
Das Fotomagazin, Germany
Dazed & Confused, UK
El Pais, El Domingo Magazine, Spain
Esquire, Russia
Femina magazine, India
FOTO8, UK
Global Post, online
Guardian Weekend, UK
Harper’s Magazine, USA
Hotshoe magazine, online
Internazionale, Italy
LENS (The New York Times online), USA
Marie Claire, India
MSNBC, online
Newsweek Japan
Nikon Pro Magazine
PBS: Frontline World, USA
PDFX12 by Yumi Goto, Japan
Purpose, online
Red, UK
Royal Photographic Society, UK
Russian Reporter, Russia
Saturday Telegraph magazine, UK
Seesaw, online
Seven (Sunday Telegraph supplement), UK
Spectrum (Sunday Times magazine), UK
Stella (Sunday Telegraph supplement), UK
STERN, Germany
Sueddeutshe Zeitung Magazin, Germany
Taylor Wessing Prize 2009 annual, UK
Telegraph, India
The Independent on Sunday Magazine, UK
The Sunday Times, UK
TIME.com, online
VQR (Virginia Quarterly Review), USA
VRIJ Magazine, Netherlands
WIG magazine, UK

Won these additional awards:

Art of photography 2009 and 2010: Winner
Black and White Spider awards, international: Nominee Award
Goa International Pinhole Photography Contest 2010
IPA awards, New York: Honorable Mention
Magenta foundation 2010: UK winner
PhotoLucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 Finalists, 2009
PDN Photo Annual: winner
PGB Photo Award 2010: Best Picture of the Year
PGB Photo Award 2010: 1st Prize, Picture Story of the Year
Picture of the year, Norway: 3rd prize Portrait
Prix de la Photographie Paris 2010: Honorable Mention
Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship 2009: Honorable Mention
The Photo Review 2009 Competition: 1st prize
The Independent Photographers’ Terry O’Neill Award: 3rd place
World Press Photo 2010: 1st Prize Stories, General News
World Press Photo 2010: 1st Prize Portraits, Singles

Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2010 global photography competition is now open for submissions. Once again we have a stellar international jury, and this year we’re offering:

• new expanded categories
• more cash prizes, and
• international traveling exhibitions of all winning photographs.

The deadline for entries is September 18, 2010. Full details are at: lensculture.com/awards. Enter your best work today!