Now that the First Edition 2011 Hot Shots have been announced, and we've opened the Second Edition 2011 round of competition, we're looking forward to the new crop of Contenders that we'll be writing about. But in honor of the 70+ Contenders we featured last round, here's a look back at some of the highlights from the First Edition 2011 Contenders. Which one was your favorite?
Hole, 2009 by Walker Pickering
Untitled, 2011 by Lydia Anne McCarthy
Day 47, 2009 by Jennifer Wilkey
Response to Print of Egret Rookery, Louisiana, 2010 by Laura Plageman
Untitled. Khovsgol, Mongolia. 2010 by Andres Gonzalez
Defender #2, 2010 by Sean M. Eno
I am more than my face:), 2010 by Mitsuko Nagone
the other landscape 02, 2010 by Laura Garcia Serventi
HOVERING GROCERY SHOPPING ASSISTANT WITH LEATHER HAND LEAD, 2009
by Patrick Strattner
Julie, by Kristin Skees
Ruin, 2011 by Tamas Dezso
Hardy Dam, Newaygo, MI, United States (1998-2011) by Jay Van Dam
Untitled , 2010 by Thomas Forbes
Untitled 4, from the series A Thousand Little Suns, 2011 by Martina Lindqvist
Meeting on The Shore, 2011 by Barbara Parmet
Stick Figure, 2011 from the series Kallima by Alex Kisilevich
Cara, 2011 by Shelley Calton
Plastic Totem, 2010 by David Welch
In Transit #25, by Diego Kuffer
Accidental Rothko v2.0, 2010 by Chip Litherland
Laundromat, 2010 by Christopher Ernst
Brazil/Vaqueiros. The Vaqueiros wear the handmade leather uniform of protecting clothing necessary to their work of roping cows, amidst lethal thorns throughout the bush caatinga, 2010 by Luis Fabini
Dust_1 Gallery, 2010 by Ujin Lee
Untitled from the series Fight Journal, 2009 by Adam Smith
South Minneapolis, MN, 2007 by Tom Wik
Stepfather, 2011 by Cyrus Karimipour
Wave #3, 2011 by Ryan Rickett
Padre Danzinger, 2011 by Erin Riley
2008.10.13-114, 2008 by Anton Young
Abbatoir #1, 2011 by Moya McAllister
Table, 2010 by Patrick Hogan
Untitled from the series Crashes, by Diego Levy
Catching Fire I, 2011 by Maria Theresa Moerman Ib
Funeral home interior with matching yellow sofas and patterned wallpaper; Montpelier, Vermont, 2010 by Corey Hendrickson