The 88th Art Directors Club Award winners were announced Thursday, April 30 at the Art Directors Club Gallery in New York. Aperture-published titles Erwin Olaf and Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City were both recognized for Design in Print in Photography. Erwin Olaf won a silver cube award and The Transparent City took gold. Congratulations to all who were nominated and Aperture extends gratitude to our great design team. Be sure to get your copies of these award-winning books today!

Click here to purchase a signed copy of Michael Wolf’s The Transparent City.

Click here to purchase of Erwin Olaf.

Image: © Kesha Bruce, Sweet Sisters #1, from En Foco’s New Works #11

New Works #12
En Foco‘s New Works Photography Awards is an annual program selecting U.S. based photographers of Latino, African, Asian, and Native American heritage through a national call for entries.

New Works acts as a creative incubator, enabling artists to create/complete an in-depth, photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and providing the infrastructure for a professional exhibition of their new work in the New York area.

Deadline: July 7, 2008

Juror: Deborah Willis, Curator, Author, Photographer and Chair of the Photo & Imaging Dept at NYU/TISCH

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New Yorks #11 is on view through July 5 at El Taller Boricua Galleries

Aperture Foundation is pleased to announce the Aperture Portfolio Prize, an international photography competition, is now accepting entries.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, July 11.

The purpose of the Portfolio Prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography and specific artists whom we can help by bringing their work to a wider audience. In choosing the first-prize winner and runners-up, we are looking for work that is fresh and that hasn’t been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues.

First prize is $2,500. The first-prize winner and runners-up are featured on Aperture’s website for approximately one year. Winners are also announced in the foundation’s e-newsletter, which reaches thousands of subscribers in the photography community. To see the work of the winner and runners-up for the 2007 prize, please