PDN - White-Washed Photo Contest? Hardly

Courtesy Photo Business News & Forum  Sun, 06/07/2009 - 12:05

Is Photo District News guilty of "passive raciscm" in their latest photo annual?

In a word, no. What started (here ) as race-baiting, evolved into money-grubbing race-baiting here , with a well honed charge that PDN's photo contest is passively racist because their jury is all white.

I have been critical of PDN's past photo contests (No Confidence Vote for the PDN/NGS Contest , (1/28/08), but this charge is just outright asinine.

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