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Photography.Book.Now Announces Distinguished Panel of Jurors for Photography Book Competition

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 PRNewswire — The Photography.Book.Now International Salon and Symposium has announced a distinguished panel of jurors for its photography book competition. Head Judge Darius Himes, co-Founder of Radius Books, will lead the following panel of internationally renowned editors, publishers, curators, and photographers in judging the most innovative and finest self-published photography books:

— Darius Himes, Radius Books (and Head Judge) — Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman Gallery — Elisabeth Biondi, The New Yorker — Frish Brandt, Fraenkel Gallery — Charlotte Cotton, Los Angeles County Museum of Art — Stephen Gill, Photographer — Lesley A. Martin, Aperture Books — Alan Rapp, Chronicle Books — Kathy Ryan, The New York Times — Brian Ulrich, Photographer — Denise Wolff, Phaidon Press

"Any photographer would kill to have their work reviewed by this prestigious group," said Eileen Gittins, Blurb's founder and CEO. "Our jurors are all excited to see the range and creativity of books that will be submitted, now that it is so simple and affordable to compose a book of great beauty and quality."

Members of the jury will help select the winning photography books including the recipient of the grand prize award: $25,000 towards the photography project of the winner's choice. To enter, photographers must visit photographybooknow.com and submit their photography books by July 14, 2008.

Photography.Book.Now is accepting entries in two categories, General and Themed. The General category celebrates the diversity of the photographic medium, and gives entrants the creative freedom to produce the book of their choice. The Themed category invites any topic, concept, or collection of work that demonstrates how photography can create a narrative in book form. Complete entry guidelines, rules, and jury bios are available at photographybooknow.com.

The Photography.Book.Now International Salon and Symposium is presented by Blurb, the creative book publishing platform. Sponsors include American Photo, Canon, Flickr, JPG Magazine, Livebooks, Photo District News (PDN), and SmugMug among others.

About Photography.Book.Now

Be a part of the modern photography book movement. Photography.Book.Now celebrates the most creative, most innovative and finest self-published photography books — and the people behind them. Photography.Book.Now is an international juried book competition, traveling salon and symposium. Get started by making your book using Blurb's free software and commercial-quality printing, or enter your own self-published book. Join the movement and submit your book by July 14th for your chance at the $25,000 grand prize, a trip to San Francisco, and worldwide recognition. For more information visit http://www.photographybooknow.com.

About Blurb

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb is flexible and smart enough to help anyone make a book — photographers, creative professionals, bloggers, artists, writers, travelers, everyone. Blurb's bookstore and online marketing tools let people share, market, and sell their books, and keep 100% of the markup. Blurb's community features empower socially connected groups of consumers and professionals to create Blurb books together.

Blurb has been recognized as an OnMedia 100 winner by AlwaysOn in 2008, named a Momentum 15 company by Dealmaker Media in 2007, awarded the 2007 Pixel Awards Geek Winner, and recently nominated for a 2008 Webby Award. Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2004 and is funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Blurb BookSmart(TM) software is free for Mac or PC at http://www.blurb.com.

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