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PDN Sponsorships
Leverage dynamic and interactive sponsorships that include print, online and event marketing opportunities. These include contests, special issues and more, including:
World in Focus
The Emerging Photographer Sponsorship & PDN's 30
Top Knots: The New Schoool of Wedding Photography

Annual
Presented by Photo District News and
National Geographic Traveler
The World in Focus is the ultimate travel photography contest. It was promoted July through August 2009 and will be published in print and online in the February 2010 issue of PDN and NGT, as well as exhibited at the PDN PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo in October. Through this sponsorship you will reach professionals through PDN and amateur shooters through National Geographic Traveler. Sponsorship includes all of the above plus advertorial and custom opportunities for product placements.

FEBRUARY ISSUE
CFE run dates: June, July, August
Cost: $30,000
www.worldinfocuscontest.com
Great outdoors
The March 2010 issue of PDN will highlight 30 rising talents in the photo industry. This program gives you recognition in ads, banners and at live events at universities through seminar programs. With this sponsorship package, you can effectively reach a broad audience of emerging photographers and be a part of the next big thing.

Cost: $30,000 all-inclusive.
www.pdngallery.com/gallery/pdns30/2009
Self Promotion
The 26th Annual PDN Self-Promotion Awards winners’ gallery will be printed in the October 2010 issue of PDN magazine. We recently added an exciting new category: multimedia self-promos. This new category showcases the top promotional videos professional
photographers are creating to promote their businesses. Sponsorship benefits include co-sponsoring a live event during the 2010 PDN PhotoPlus Expo, October 2010.

CFE run dates: May, June, July
Event sponsorship available upon request
www.pdnonline.com/contests

The PDN Photo Annual
The Curator: Fine Art Photography Contest
Faces

Musical Moment
The May issue of PDN is not only an essential annual guide for both photographers and creatives looking for the hottest talent and newest trends, but it also serves as a lasting record of our industry’s achievements over the last year. Features include “The Year in Review,” a recap of the biggest news and most important stories of the year, current visual trends, profiles of clients and creatives who have the biggest impact on photography today and an extensive portfolio of the year in pictures. Sponsorship includes category exclusivity, the Photo Annual Gala and sponsorship of a custom-made scholarship programs in your company’s name.

Categories: Advertising, Magazine/Editorial, Photo Books, Photojournalism/Sports/Documentary, Corporate Design/Photo Products, Personal Work, Stock Photography, Web Sites and Student Work.

MAY ISSUE
CFE run dates: October, November, December,
January, Fall EDU, Gear Guide, ASMP
Cost: $35,000
www.pdnphotoannual.com

Digital Imaging
PDN presents The Curator—The Search for Outstanding and Undiscovered Fine Art Photography. The Curator photography project brings artists and curators together. Six artists will be selected and their work will be exhibited in New York, in Photo District News magazine, and within a Web gallery on the PDN network. One artist in each of the following categories will be selected; Portraits/ Nudes, Installation/Still Life, Abstract/Mixed Media, Nature/Street Photography, Photo Essay/ Reportage, and Student Work.

JUNE ISSUE
CFE run dates: January, February, March
Cost: $15,000
www.pdncuratorawards.com
World in Focus
Presented by Photo District News
Faces is a photo contest that captures the spirit of humanity through photography. This contest will be promoted through multiple magazines in call for entry ads published in print and online in January, February and March, 2010. Through this comprehensive sponsorship you will reach professional, advanced amateur and student photographers. Sponsorship includes custom opportunities for product placement. Categories include: Celebrity/Editorial portraits (in studio), Friends /Family, Environmental Portraiture, Self-portraits and Animal portraits.

JULY ISSUE
CFE run dates: January, February, March
Cost: $15,000
www.facesphotocontest.com

The Concerned Photographer
The Great Outdoors
The Look Fashion Photography Contest

Faces
In the August issue of PDN we celebrate photographers who are giving back, and explore opportunities for photographers who want to use their talents for good, either locally or in the wider world. The PDN editors will select 12 photographers with projects done in the past year for worthy causes. As a sponsor of PDN's The Concerned Photographer project, you will gain tremendous exposure through various marketing opportunities.

AUGUST ISSUE
Cost: $15,000
www.pdnonline.com
Junior Sponsorships
Presented by Photo District News and National Geographic Traveler
Published in the August issues of PDN and also in NGT and promoted in the February, March, and April issues of both magazines, the Great Outdoors photo contest is open to both professional photographers through PDN and amateur shooters through National Geographic Traveler. Categories include: Parks & Safari, Scenes of the Natural World, Plants, Animals, Insects and Gardens, Outdoor Sports and Activities, and Beaches, Islands and Underwater. Through this sponsorship you will reach more than 800,000 photographers shooting today!

AUGUST ISSUE
CFE run dates: February, March, April
Cost: $15,000
www.thegreatoutdoorscontest.com
Emerging
In the September issue of PDN, The Look, Where Fashion Meets Art photography contest winners will be presented. The Look celebrates innovative fashion photography in the following categories: Advertising, Editorial/Celebrity, Still Life/Accessories, Personal Work/Fine Art/ Avante Garde, Runway/Street Scene, Beauty and Debut (student or emerging photographers’ work). Select winners will win a spread in PDN, or the opportunity to collaborate with a fashion publication, and much more. Guest judges will include stylists, fashion magazine editors, and modeling agency representatives.

SEPTEMBER ISSUE
CFE run dates: April, May, June
Cost: $15,000
www.pdnonline.com

PDN Self-Promotion Awards
PIX Digital Imaging
PDN/Billboard Ultimate Music Moment

Top Knots
The 26th Annual PDN Self-Promotion Awards winners’ gallery will be printed in the October 2010 issue of PDN magazine. We recently added an exciting new category: multimedia self-promos. This new category showcases the top promotional videos professional photographers are creating to promote their businesses.

OCTOBER ISSUE
CFE run dates: May, June, July
Cost: $15,000

www.selfpromoawards.com
Junior Sponsorships
The PIX Digital Imaging Contest, gallery and event identifies a selection of the most outstanding digital imaging being created by photographers, digital artists, designers and retouchers through digital capture and post production. Categories for the contest include: Fashion, Portraits/Music/Celebrities, Travel/Lifestyle, Advertising, Personal Work and New Talent. The call for entries starts in June 2010 and culminate in the November, 2010 issue of PDN.

NOVEMBER ISSUE
CFE run dates: June, July, August, Studio Guide
Cost: $15,000
www.pixdigitalimaging.com
Emerging
This unique music photography contest, published in the December, 2010 issue of PDN, combines Billboard.com's reach to more than 4 million unique visitors with PDN's prestige in the professional photography market. This contest is a great opportunity for your company to build brand awareness among pro photographers, amateur photographers and music fans alike.

DECEMBER ISSUE
CFE run dates: July, August, September
Cost: $15,000
www.billboardphotocontest.com


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