The PDN 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch

PDN has published their 30 photographers to watch for 2016, and the list is below. As is every year, the photographers are pretty incredible in their own ways. Below is the list along with a sample image of their work.

The PDN’s 30 for 2016 are:

From the series “Futebol Feminino”, a project about professional soccer players in Brazil.
Copyright: Adrienne Grunwald

1. Located 30km from Dakar (Senegal), Mbeubeuss is an unauthorized dump site, where each day, 350 rubbish trucks dump an estimated 1,300 tons of household waste, from Dakar and environs. It is an ecological bomb: Since its creation in 1968, the dumpsite has been growing and increasingly gaining ground, polluting surrounding waters, soils and the environment. But Mbeubeuss is also a source of income for about 1,800 people who work in and earn their living from the dump site. Copyright: Fabrice Monteiro

Sheep crossing Grand Ave. in Chino Hills, CA in Spring of 2012. Copyright: Damon Casarez

Personal project — “Running San Francisco” Copyright: Cody Pickens

An infected male sheep crab is feminized by a parasitic barnacle. It stops developing fighting claws, and its abdomen widens, providing a “womb” for the barnacle to fill with its brood pouch. Nurtured by the crab, the eggs hatch. Thousands of baby barnacles disperse to infect anew. Copyright: Anand Varma

Photographed through the spherical glass floor of the Oriental Pearl Tower, an enormous roundabout functions as ornament and traffic control in the financial heart of Shanghai. Copyright: Ryan Koopmans

March 6th, 2014. Caracas, Venezuela. A National Police officer behind a riot shield is pushed backwards by a crush of demonstrators during the March of the Empty Pots, which coincided with International Women’s Day.
A month into a wave of unrest that has spread across Venezuela, protests continued daily in the upper class enclave of Altamira, Caracas, as well as other parts of the city and country. Protesters are calling for solutions to a staggering rate of street crime, skyrocketing inflation, and a rash of food shortages that have led to long lines at grocery stores and lack of access to goods such as milk, sugar, and flour. While many large protests have been peaceful, the youth demonstrations each afternoon in Altamira are consistently characterized by exchanges of tear gas canisters and sometimes birdshot on the part of police, and rocks, molotov cocktails and other fireworks on the part of the protesters. Copyright: Natalie Keyssar