Laura Stevens

Another November

Grant Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“My work was published on numerous photo sites and blogs, including CNN Photos, The Huffington Post, and Feature Shoot. Prints have been sold to a private collector. I was named one of the 2014 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50. I have been invited to take part in some exciting projects this year...and I received incredible, heartwarming responses from individuals who personally wrote to me about my work. It really has opened doors and I can’t thank LensCulture enough for all the amazing publicity and help they’ve offered.”

Eugenio Grosso

Heavily Loaded

Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“Since I was named an Emerging Talent, I got lot of visibility for my project. My work was exhibited in Barcelona and was also published on the website PRIVATE, in Art Photo Magazine, on Feature Shoot, and shortlisted by VII photographer Stefano De Luigi for a contest by Life Framer. I was also published in Bloomberg Business, the BBC, Colors Magazine and many blogs and websites. I was also among the winners of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Competition!
It has been a great opportunity to move forward in the industry and to be among the top 50—it really gave me a sense of pride and a new impulse to pursue my career. I know that it made me feel more confident with myself and the project.”

Nancy Borowick

Cancer Family

Grant Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“Since the announcement, the work was featured in Emerging Photographer Magazine and ASMP Magazine. Besides publications, the work was projected at the Visa Pour L’Image Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France, as well as at the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia, and in the Yangon Photo Festival in Myanmar. In terms of exhibitions, it was shown as part of the New York Photo Festival Photo World Competition, taking home the award for Juror’s Choice! I now freelance often for the New York Times.”

Andreas Olesen

Estate

Grant Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“Being chosen resulted in an immediate, huge jump in the amount of attention my work receives. I was photographing on a small island north of Sardinia when I got the news, and by the time I got back to my computer, my inbox was flooded with mails from well wishers and print purchase inquiries. Within a few weeks, I had gotten several interview requests, a publishing request and hefty jump in traffic (double, in fact) on my website.
Now, I am organizing an exhibition of the work in California and I think that winning the award definitely helped me secure this show.”

Antoine Bruy

Scrublands

Winner,
Emerging Talent Awards 2014

“2014 has been an amazing year for me, and winning made it even more exciting. After the award, I received a lot of propositions for exhibitions and publications. For example, Sunjung Kim showed my work at the Seoul Lunar Photo Fest. Thus, LensCulture gave me one of the most important things when you are a photographer—a bit of recognition—something that helps a lot in continuing to believe in what you do.”

Katrina Kepule

Sit Silently

Winner,
Emerging Talent Awards 2014

“Since I was selected, I have received unparalled attention. My series was published in several websites from across the world—Gosee, Aint Bad, and Juxtapoz, to name just a few. I was invited to participate in the Angkor Photography Festival (Siem Reap, Cambodia), the Kaunas Photo festival (Lithuania), as well as in a Latvian photography collective.”

Lucy Hilmer

Birthday Suits

Winner,
LensCulture Emerging Talents 2014

“For decades I kept my photographs in boxes in a closet, or at best, on walls of my small, apartment living room. Now, thanks to LensCulture's amazing international reach, one of my projects, “Birthday Suits: A Woman, Her Camera & Time” is known all over the world.

At my age, it's such a gift knowing that what I've spent a lifetime doing has touched others. I'm still getting emails from women and men of all ages and countries thanking me for what I've done.

Wow! What a gift that is, and without you and your wonderful website, none of this would have been possible.”

Michele Palazzi

Black Gold Hotel

Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“After the LensCulture recognition, I had the chance to exhibit my project in photo festivals around Europe. My work gained a lot of visibility from that. At the same time the project was published in L’espresso magazine and was featured in many more international websites.”

Luca Lupi

Landscapes (Space)

Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“After my project was selected for a LensCulture Emerging Talents 2014 award, it gave me visibility and the opportunity to show my work in solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and participate in an art fair, Art Verona. My work was published in magazines and websites in Europe as well. Thanks to LensCulture, I have also received purchase requests for my works.”

Greg Kahn

3 Millimeters

Winner,
Emerging Talent 2014

“Since the award, my project "3 Millimeters" has been published on the Weather Channel, in the Washington Post and in Baltimore magazine. I am going to have a solo exhibit of the work at the Vivid Solutions Gallery in Washington, D.C. in May of 2015. And finally, I was commissioned by Audubon Magazine to do a sea level rise story in the Outer Banks in North Carolina (not yet published).”

Jorge de la Torriente

From Above

Winner,
LensCulture Emerging Talents 2014

“THANK YOU for giving us winners all this exposure! This is the reason I enter competitions. LensCulture has proven to be one of the best organization that I have been involved with...I am working on some new images to add to my “View from Above” series that will be released during Art Basel Miami!”

Ali Mobasser

Afsaneh: Box 3

Winner,
LensCulture Emerging Talents 2014

“Stern magazine has just contacted me and want to publish my aunt's ID photos series. They saw it on LensCulture. As my wife is German and I love Stern, this is great news!!!! Later, a Russian online mag approached me and did an interview about me and the piece. They saw it in LensCulture of course! All this attention has given me the confidence to go to the next step of making a book!”

Kerry Mansfield

Aftermath

1st Prize, Single Image,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2011

“One of the best aspects of winning the award is the sheer amount of exposure the work gets, no pun intended. I have received emails from people all over the world. The Aftermath exhibition has been a huge success. I also have exhibitions at the Griffin Art Museum in Boston and a selective group show about Books at Photo Center NW in Seattle. I'm having a solo exhibition at Cordon Potts Gallery in SF opening on June 4th (6 week show). Finally, the amount of press alone has been really fabulous—Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, Feature Shoot, SF Arts—all which, of course, was enabled by the truly amazing LensCulture!”

Sarah Choi

Streets in Hong Kong

Winner,
LensCulture Emerging Talents 2014

“LensCulture is one of the most successful platforms for contemporary photography as an art. They discover talented photographers and expose them to the wide world. I had an exhibition in Barcelona and an artist talk in London after winning this award. Also, many galleries later became interested in my works. I highly recommend you, my photographer friends, to try to show your works to the world.”

Daesung Lee

Futuristic Archaeology

Winner,
Visual Storytelling Awards 2014

“After receiving a LensCulture Visual Storytelling award, I was contacted by “Courrier International” a French weekly magazine! My work will be published on the 8th of January. Thanks a lot, again, to LensCulture. It is very worthy to apply for awards on LensCulture.”

Tina Schula

Radical Camp

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“My biggest and best success since LensCulture has been my recent first assignment for The New York Times. They asked me to shoot a great story on the writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis and his new book ‘Travels with Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country.’ I was very excited to shoot it.”

Tsutomu Yamagata

Thirteen Orphans

3rd Prize, Portfolio Category,
LensCulture Portrait Awards 2014

“After the announcement, my work was featured on Huffington Post Italia, Artist Database Japan, Rinse, and more. I can’t count how many times I was reblogged and shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. The sales of my photography book increased in the USA. It hit the weekly best-seller list on photo-eye books. This autumn, my work will be featured in the international photo festival “La Quatrieme Image” in Paris. My work will be known all over the world—all thanks to LensCulture.”

Maroesjka Lavigne

Island

Grand Prize Winner,
LensCulture New & Emerging Photographers 2013

“I received a lot of attention after being published in LensCulture! Mainly, it was the first time that my work received some response from the US. First, my work was published in a couple of US magazines and then, I was offered an exhibition in New York City at the Robert Mann Gallery in Chelsea! I went there for the opening and it was an amazing experience for me. The gallery also represented my work at the AIPAD Fair, which was great.

The LensCulture opportunity was key in allowing me to finance my new project about Beauty Culture in Seoul. And it motivates me to keep working as a photographer!”

Dayna Bartoli

Florafaunal Angiography

Finalist,
LensCulture New & Emerging Photographers 2013

“My biggest success that came as a direct result of submitting my photos to LensCulture was seeing my work published in Harper’s Magazine! One of my photos was featured on LensCulture’s Facebook page before the contest results were even announced and it was seen by someone at Harper’s. Harper’s contacted me and asked if they could publish 3 of my photos. They ran in the July 2013 issue! It felt amazing to see my photos in every newsstand across the US. It would not have happened without LensCulture.”

Richard Tuschman

Hopper Meditations

3rd Prize, Portfolio Category,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“I have seen a huge increase in interest in my work since the award was announced. I have begun working with a private dealer who has purchased several prints and also received serious interest from a dealer in Moscow. I have been approached by a commercial agency in Spain, my work will be the subject of articles in several print magazines across the globe and there have been numerous features on photo sites and blogs. I also got about 1,000 new Facebook fans and traffic to my website has increased by almost 500%.”

Carlotta Cardana

Mod Couples

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“A popular monthly magazine really liked my project about Native American pride in LensCulture, and they have decided to commission me to go back and shoot more. So exciting, I still can’t believe it! ALSO I have seven images from the Mod Couples series in The Eyes Collection #1 exhibition (thanks to LensCulture/Fotofest, obviously!).”

Michael Marten

Sea Change

1st Prize Portfolio Winner,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2011

“Winning 1st prize in the portfolio category of the LensCulture Exposure Awards, as well as attending the portfolio reviews in Paris that November, were a breakthrough for me. It led directly to the 2012 publication of my book ‘Sea Change’ by Kehrer and a solo exhibition of the work at London’s Oxo Gallery. There were reviews of the book in The Observer newspaper as well as Source magazine and features in magazines and blogs ranging from The Guardian weekend magazine to Reddit. This led to a huge spike in visitors to my website. My ‘Sea Change’ book is almost sold out.

More recently, last year I was asked to contribute to a group exhibition on the theme of James Joyce at the Francis Kyle Gallery in London’s West End. I also received a commission from the Financial Times magazine for some landscape photographs. My ‘Sea Change’ photographs have now been featured by 30 or 40 photography blogs around the world and have been published in magazines in France, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Brazil.”

Yijun Liao

Experimental Relationship

2nd Prize Portfolio Winner,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“February 27, 2014: I have to tell you that my email has been busy non-stop ever since the announcement of the LensCulture Exposure Awards. LensCulture has indeed given me great exposure worldwide. I have had really good luck in the press lately worldwide, and it’s still snowballing! It took my name to an international level. Look at where my work has been featured since I won: Huffington Post (US), iGnant (Germany), BUST (US), Daily Life (Australia), Medium, TAXI, Escapism (Canada), Il Post (Italy) Also, I have been invited to a residency in Finland, contacted by a UK collector, a Chilean Museum and a European publisher for possible projects. It’s truly been the best award I’ve won!”

“March 31, 2014: I’m here at FOTOFEST in Houston and I’m surprised how many people recognized my work because of LensCulture! It is the biggest exposure I’ve received. I also met with Regina Anzenberger, who is wonderful and reviewed both my old and new work. Thanks to LensCulture, my work is being recognized in the field. It helped me make important connections with people.”

Jessica Hines

My Brother’s War

1st Prize, Portfolio Category,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2010

“LensCulture is wonderful. It is an excellent source of innovative photography and I highly recommend it. Winning their 1st Prize got me more exposure than just about anything else I’ve done. I received hundreds and hundreds of hits to my website and they still come through to this day. I also met some wonderful people through it. I have only good things to say about them. Go for it!”

Anne Berry

Behind Glass

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“Since I won the award, my photographs have been published in the Huffington Post, PetaPixel, Viralnova, and Feature Shoot.”

Candace Gaudiani

Forty Eight States II

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2012

“Receiving an Honorable Mention in the LensCulture Exposure Awards for the project “Between Destinations” made a huge difference in helping my exhibitions and publications come into fruition. In short, it was a “stamp of recognition” for my work. Since that time, Kehrer has published my book Between Destinations. I have been exhibited in festivals and musems around the world: from Photoville in Brooklyn to the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston to the Festival de la Luz in Argentina. My work has been reviewed in LensScratch, Germany FAZ, American Photography’s Pro Photo Daily, ForeWord, and La Lettre de la Photographie. In 2013, I was a nominee for the 2014 Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards. Thank you, LensCulture! The support keeps me inspired!”

Daniele Pintore

The Painting is Me

Featured in LensCulture Spotlight

“Since my work was recognized by LensCulture, my project “The Painting Is Me" was published by Shot Directory. I also showed the work in a group exhibition in the summer of 2013. Finally, I was contacted by the agency Millennium and asked to be part of their archive. This felt like one of the biggest goals I had reached thus far. My photographic career continues to grow and change but LensCulture was the first major institution to celebrate and expose my work.”

Fabrice Fouillet

Eurasism

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“One jury member, Regina Anzenberger, offered me representation in her agency. I will be featured online in GUP Magazine. And I’ve seen a significant increase in traffic to my website. Not to mention the happiness it brings me to be a LensCulture Finalist.”

Ellie Davies

Smoke and Mirrors

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2010

“Being selected for a LensCulture award in 2010 had a fantastic impact on my career, giving me worldwide exposure and leading to six solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions throughout Europe, Russia, North America and Malaysia over the last four years, as well as inclusion in Arles, Singapore and Norderlicht Photofestivals in 2012. My work was published in magazines around the world and also included in a number of books, most notably WUD: Four Fictional Walks in the Woods, a hand-bound limited-edition photobook published by Tangarine Press.

The LensCulture Awards were one of the best awards I’ve won because of the touring exhibition and also due to the continued LensCulture website page give my work ongoing exposure. But I think most importantly I love the strength and diversity of the work that LensCulture promotes and selects in its awards, and I’m very happy to have been included in this.”

Claire Felicie

Here are the young men

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2011

“Winning a LensCulture award did a LOT for my career. When LensCulture published my whole series, requests for publishing came in from all over the world. Among them were the Daily Mail and the Huffington Post. I found that LensCulture is highly respected and to be published and featured there opens doors with galleries and museum curators. So, for me it is very important that my work is to be seen on such a platform with such a wide audience.”

Daisuke Takakura

Monodramatic

Winner,
Visual Storytelling Awards 2014

“My work [monodramatic] was featured in U.S news site Mashable! It was shared by over 2.2k people. What a nice surprise. It’s thanks to you and the LensCulture team.”

Andrejs Strokins

People in the dunes

Winner,
LensCulture Emerging Talent 2014

“What can I say about such joyous news? It’s a pleasure to finally join the ranks of those who grace the pages of your fine publication. I couldn’t be happier. Thanks to you LensCulture, I’ve received a lot of attention and also some purchase requests for work. More news to come!”

Acacia Johnson

Polaris

Featured in LensCulture Spotlight

“This is truly fabulous news, I can’t believe how much traffic it has received, probably more than any publication of my work to date. It means a lot... motivation for my next projects.”

Nina Roeder

Mutters Schuhe

Finalist,
LensCulture Portrait Awards 2014

“Yes, I got amazing feedback so far: some postings in blogs in New York and Boston; a Swedish publishing house wants to work together with me, and an Austrian magazine wants to publish the ‘Mother Shoes’ series in the September issue. So — I’m very happy!

The past few weeks have been crazy! A lot of international blogs featured my work since it appeared on LensCulture so I keep getting lots of attention. I’m especially happy that Ben Füglister, from European Photography, will publish my work in the next edition.”

Hebe Robinson

Echoes of Lofoten

Featured in LensCulture Spotlight

“After being published on LensCulture, I was contacted by several magazines and photo editors. My work has been published on CNN Photos and will be in the next issue of RearViewMagazine (Italy). I have also been invited to exhibit at the Athens Photo Festival in November...LensCulture really did lead to my breakthrough and very exciting things are still happening (one is still a secret)...”

Douglas Ljungkvist

Ocean Beach

Finalist,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

“I got a lot of FB Likes and increased web traffic. Also, lots of folks were really impressed with me being Finalist which goes to show the respect people have for LensCulture.”

Michelle Sank

In My Skin

2nd Prize, Single Image,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2012

“The Award brought increased attention to my newest body of work (4 publications, one exhibition, one additional award). I like the fact that the work represented is always of a high and diverse calibre and that it is a highly respected competition.”

Andrea Stone

City Reflections

Featured in LensCulture Spotlight

“I just wanted to let you know that as a result of you publishing my City Reflections portfolio in LensCulture last January, Lumas gallery in Berlin saw my work and will be selling 5 of my images in their European galleries. They have 30 galleries right now, including SoHo, Dubai, and Moscow. Woohoo!!!”

Tara Bogart

A Modern Hair Study

Featured in LensCulture Spotlight

“After being published in LensCulture, Tara’s photo series, “A Modern Hair Study” received a lot of additional attention online. Of special note, the series was picked up and featured by CNN online, and was published by ZOOM magazine. Independent of LensCulture, six images from Tara’s series were acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).”

Louisa Marie Summer

Jennifer’s Family

3rd Prize, Portfolio Category,
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2010

“After receiving the award I was able to publish my book. The LensCulture Exposure Awards offered the perfect support at the right time of my career within the ideal space and community to fully nurture my professional and artistic growth.”