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Daylight is proud to announce the 2012 Photo Awards results:

Photo Awards Winner:

Aaron Vincent Elkaim

The winner of the award this year is Aaron Vincent Elkaim for his portfolio titled Fort McKay: Sleeping with the Devil. Aaron will receive an exhibition at the Daylight Project Space (September) as well as a multimedia feature (October) and a $1,000 cash prize.

Check out more of Elkaim's work: http://www.avephoto.ca

Juror's Picks:

David Bram, Fraction: Jess Dugan

Jim Estrin and Jessie Wender, The New York Times and The New Yorker: Mu Ge

Paul Moakley, Time: Pavel Maria Smejkal

Alexa Dilworth, Center for Documentary Studies: Ula Wiznerowicz

Image by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

Vancouver-based photojournalist Jonathan Taggart explores the reserves of the In-SHUCK-ch Nation, scattered along both sides of British Columbia's Lillooet River. Like many of Canada's indigenous communities, the settlements of the In-SHUCK-ch exist in isolation; poverty is rampant and infrastructure dearly lacking. With limited access to health and education resources, the communites of the Lillooet River Valley can be seen to represent what has too often been referred to as the "Indian Problem."

To view this and other Multimedia projects, visit: http://www.daylightmagazine.org/podcast

In 1957, Eugene Smith moved into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City. The building was a late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz-Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk. From 1957 to 1965, Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at the loft, the largest body of work in his career. Smith also wired the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels of stereo and mono audiotapes.

The Jazz Loft Project, organized by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in cooperation with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and the W. Eugene Smith estate, is devoted to preserving and cataloging Smith's tapes, researching the photographs, and obtaining oral history interviews with all surviving loft participants through radio shows, events, performances and exhibitions.

Critical Mass puts your work in front of 200+ international curators, editors, publishers, and museum directors! Plus: A book award with publisher Kehrer Verlag, solo show awards from Blue Sky Gallery and The Center for Fine Art Photography, and an exhibition curated by W. M. Hunt showing at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery and Southeast Museum of Photography.

To enter, visit: http://www.photolucida.org