All photos © Fiona Aboud

Photographer Fiona Aboud’s love of culture and personal expression is reflected in her ongoing personal project documenting Sikhs living all over the U.S.—including Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, California, Texas and New Mexico, as they carry their traditions into, says Aboud, the fabric of America. (more…)

All Photos © Danny Zapalac Photography

Danny Zapalac’s book Mile Seventy Eight tells the story of three friends who leave everyday life to travel into the Angeles National Forest on the heels of the biggest snowstorm to hit Southern California in a decade. Full of anxious ambition and determined to press on past the road closure at Mile 70, the friends take a three-day journey into another world that offers endless recreational options.

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© Kristi Montague

A sullen mascot ambles down a supermarket aisle in this image from Kristi Montague’s series “Characters Out of Context.” More images from Montague, a master’s candidate at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and other winners can be seen in the PDNedu Student Photo Contest 2010 winners gallery.

© Christopher Griffith.

Christopher Griffith had nothing less than a radical reinterpretation of American iconography in mind when he assembled a crew to travel the sideways and byways of a forgotten America to shoot everyday, utilitarian things found dotting our contemporary landscape.  Griffith and his team constructed huge backdrops around each painstakingly selected specimen, creating stark, decontexturalized and utterly magnificent renderings of the myriad of things we see and forget without noticing. Griffith’s first solo exhibition opens on April 15th, 2010 at the Randall Scott Gallery in Brooklyn.

Christopher Griffith trained to be a research biochemist in the field of genetic engineering before quitting four months shy of his PhD to take up photography. He has spent eight years in Europe working for Arena, Wallpaper, and the international editions of Vogue and Elle. Upon his return to the U.S. he spent four months on the road photographing “States.” Born in Canada, Griffith was raised in the U.S. and educated in Britain. He currently lives in New York.

Untitled (Santa Barbara) 2009 © Liz Kuball

Liz Kuball was born in Washington, D.C., in 1973 and raised in the same small town in Michigan where her parents grew up. She began photographing in 2006. Since then, her work has been exhibited around the country and editioned through 20×200. She was selected for inclusion in The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography, published by the Humble Arts Foundation in 2009. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where she writes a blog about her life, her work, and the things that keep her up at night.