Image © Jun Ahn.

We start the new year full of optimism, after asking a panel of photographers, publishers, curators, picture editors and critics to select the photographers they believe will make their mark on the wider international photographic community in 2013.

BJP's editors Simon Bainbridge, Olivier Laurent and Diane Smyth selected, from that list of more than 200 names, 20 photographers to watch in 2013, rejecting those we felt were a little too established, but also keeping in a few that may well be widely known but are still on the verge of something big.

The result is BJP's Ones to Watch list, which includes the following photographers:

Adrian Fussell

Cyrille Weiner

Gert Jochems

Giorgio Di Noto

Hanna Putz

Jake Stangel

Jerome Sessini

Jim Mortram

Jiri Makovec

Jose Diniz

Jun Ahn

Kyoko Hamada

Lamia Maria Abillama

Lauren Marsolier

Max Pinckers

Namsa Leuba

Pari Dukovic

Paulina Otylie Surys

Ruth Van Beek

and Samuel James

The nominators were Vince Aletti, photography critic, The New Yorker; Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director, Sirius Arts Centre; Simon Bainbridge, editor, British Journal of Photography; Julian Baron, photographer and director of Blank Paper Escuela; Nathalie Belayche, curator and founder of Food For Your Eyes; Herman van den Boom, photographer; Emma Bowkett, picture editor, FT Weekend Magazine; Richard Bram, photographer; Susan Bright, writer and curator; Bruno Ceschel, founder of Self Publish Be Happy; Charlotte Cotton, writer and curator; Jason Evans, photographer and curator; Pejman Faratin, picture editor; Brad Feuerhelm, collector; Jason Fulford, photographer and co-founder of JandL Books; Nathalie Herschdorfer, writer, curator and director of Alt.+1000 photo festival; William Hunt, collector and critic; Erik Kessels, collector and co-founder of Kessels Kramer ad agency and publishing house; Geert van Kesteren, photographer; Roberto Koch, director of Contrasto; Olivier Laurent, acting deputy editor, British Journal of Photography; Chris Littlewood, director of photography at Flowers Galleries; Robin Maddock, photographer; Stephen Mayes, director of VII Photo; Poppy Melzack, press manager at Mack Books and MAPP Editions; Martin Parr, photographer, collector and curator; Marc Prust, curator and consultant; Arianna Rinaldo, picture editor, curator and director of Ojode Pez; Kathy Ryan, photo editor of The New York Times Magazine; Diane Smyth, deputy editor, British Journal of Photography; Alec Soth, photographer and founder of Little Brown Mushroom; Matt Stuart, photographer; Thijs Groot Wassink, photographer; Chin-Chin Wu, photographer; and Anna Zekria, co-founder of Salt Images.