Vote for Your Favorite Independent Lens Viewer Artist!

During last week’s live chat with filmmakers — co-presented with PBS NewsHour’s Art Beat — we launched a contest daring Independent Lens fans to submit their artwork.

Our inbox quickly flooded with entries and we have assembled 15 finalists for you to review. Check out the slideshow of our talented contestants’ work, and then vote for your favorite. You can vote only once a day.

Polling will close on Monday, April 25 at noon PDT. We’ll announce our winner on April 26!

(This works best if you click the four arrows icon in the bottom right of the window to make the slideshow full-screen, and click “show info” as the slideshow plays, to learn more about each piece and the artists.)
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Season Finale of Global Voices: REVOLUCION: Five Visions

“… an absorbing documentary…”
- The Virginian-Pilot

REVOLUCION tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than four decades and whose perspectives on photography are as varied as their opinions about the Cuban Revolution. From revolution-era photographers whose lenses captured the heroic masses to more contemporary photographers who seek to portray individual truths, their stories reveal the power of art to liberate.

REVOLUCION: Five Visions airs Sunday, October 18 at 10:00 PM on Global Voices on PBS WORLD (check local listings).

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