Java Jones, incoming MFA Student and Parsons Alum has been selected as one of twenty-five international semi-finalists contending for the title of The New Vanguard photography prize. As a semi-finalist, he will be featured in a group exhibition at Aperture Foundation in October.

Further, five finalists will be chosen via online voting, which ends this Friday, June 22. (Here’s a link to view all twenty-five image makers, as well as learn more about the competition: The New Vanguard 25). The finalists will be given resources to photograph a fashion story for Document Journal. And from these five, one visionary will be featured on the cover of the Fall/Winter 2018 edition of Document Journal.

And don’t forget to vote for Java before Friday!