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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. 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This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=a856e943-7127-4e42-a7fb-276d53d7f9db&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) Oct 5, 2018 8:38 PM UTC  They Will Be Punished with Everlasting Destruction, from the "Do the Priest in Different Voices" series, featured in the "New Southern Photography" exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art They Will Be Punished with Everlasting Destruction, from the "Do the Priest in Different Voices" series, featured in the "New Southern Photography" exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern ArtMaury Gortemiller  by [Kara Milstein](https://time.com/author/kara-milstein/)  ## Kara Milstein Oct 5, 2018 8:38 PM UTC When people envision the South, they may conjure images made by photographers who stylized the “Southernization” of aesthetics during the last century. Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Sally Mann and William Christenberry. There are the pastoral landscapes covered in Spanish moss; the storybook scenes of small towns and people whose lives have only known those small towns; historical images of segregation and stereotypical images impoverished Americans in crumbling homes. These images have had a lasting impact, but at a cost. “The perception of the South in photography is 50 years behind the reality,” says Richard McCabe, curator of photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. “It’s a place that’s shrouded in mystery and mythology and legend.”  Marine, Hotel near airport, Richmond, VA, 2009, from the "By the Grace of God" series. Worsham is featured in several exhibitions, including "Southbound" at the Halsey. Susan Worsham—Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art  Mamou, Louisiana, 2018, from the "Don’t Drop the Potato" series. Kranitz is featured in several exhibitions, including "Southbound." Stacy Kranitz  New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014, from the "Saints" series, featured in the "Southbound" exhibition. Tammy Mercure—Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art TIME recently devoted a [special issue](http://time.com/longform/american-south/) to the changing South, with photographers who reflected a variety of voices that either showed us the familiar in a surprising way, or a subject matter that we had not seen before. Their work, and more, is included in two upcoming exhibitions: [New Southern Photography](https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/new-southern-photography/) (opening Oct. 6) at the Ogden, and [Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South](http://halsey.cofc.edu/main-exhibitions/southbound-photographs-of-and-about-the-new-south/) (opening Oct. 19) at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. Both exhibitions explore the sense of time, place and identity of a region in flux. The show at the Ogden, curated by McCabe, features the work of 25 emerging, mid-career and established photographers. It explores the role of photography “in formulating the visual iconography of the modern New South.” The photographers probe regional identity, memory, deep familial connections to the land and tension between past and present. The exhibition at the Halsey, co-curated by Mark Sloan, its director and chief curator, and Mark Long, a professor of political science, features 56 photographers who have captured the region since the turn of the century. Its purpose, according to the museum, “is to investigate senses of place in the South that congeal, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers’ looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region.”  Cat-Call, 2010, from the "Invisible Yoke, Vol. II: Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town" series, featured in the "Southbound" exhibition. Matt Eich—Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art  From the ongoing “Nashville Nights” series, 2018\. Potter’s new book “Manifest" was just published by TBW books this fall. Kristine Potter  Titan, Hernando, MS, 2011, from the "A Real Imitation" series. Kha is featured in several exhibitions, including "New Southern Photography" at the Ogden. Tommy Kha—Ogden Museum of Southern Art As the two upcoming photography exhibitions make clear, the contemporary work being made in the South today works to break free of standards and stereotypes. The collective work illustrates the region’s evolving demographic and geographic identity, widening our understanding of what the South is and can be. “One of the significant events taking place in the South today, as it grows and converts from being rural landscape to being suburban and urban landscaped, is the tension between the way the land has been for hundreds of years and what’s happening on the outskirts of Orlandos and Atlantas and Charlottes,” Alan Rothschild, founder of the [Do Good Fund](http://www.thedogoodfund.org/), an organization developing a permanent collection of Southern photography since World War II, tells TIME. “People are playing with traditional genres — landscape, portraiture and still-life. What’s happening, especially in the landscape, it’s a post-modernist take on the landscape, people manipulating the image — reimagining of the imagery in the studio, applying paint onto the surface,” McCabe tells TIME. He points to the work of [John Chiara](http://www.johnchiara.com/), whose photographs of the Mississippi landscape, made through a large pinhole camera on the back of a trunk, become painterly, abstract and highbred-like images.  They Will Be Punished with Everlasting Destruction, from the "Do the Priest in Different Voices" series, featured in the "New Southern Photography" exhibition. Maury Gortemiller  Trevor Blake, 22, Genderqueer, Athens, Ga., from the "Infinite Tenderness" series, which is part of the Do Good Fund. Peyton Fulford  Oakhurst Road at Payne Road V1, 2018, featured in the "New Southern Photography" exhibition. John Chiara—Ogden Museum of Southern Art Rothschild points to the work of Atlanta-based photographer [Peyton Fulford](http://www.peytonfulford.com/) as an example of successful chronicling of communities that historically have not received much attention. Fulford’s project “Infinite Tenderness” focuses on intimacy and identity among queer youth who grew up in small towns and rural areas. McCabe cites the work of [Tommy Kha](http://tommykha.com/), a queer, Asian-American photographer from Memphis, whose work focuses on his personal identity through self-portraiture. Another photographer, [RaMell Ross](https://www.ramellross.com/), who is based in Alabama and Rhode Island, has been photographing and filmmaking in Hale County, Ala., for seven years. In McCabe’s words, it “is the most, probably, iconic county in Southern art and Southern photography.” Ross, who TIME commissioned for a [portfolio of film sets in Georgia](http://time.com/longform/hollywood-in-georgia/), or “Hollywood South,” is exploring Hale County to uncover elements left out by Christenberry and Evans, who largely focused on the white communities. “The African American community is largely invisible in the early work of Evans in Hale County,” Long tells TIME. As McCabe tells it, there is a significance to an African-American returning to Hale County and taking control of the narrative. “It shines a light on communities that were previously invisible.”  Berea, Kentucky, Aug. 2016 Meg Wilson  Maw Maw’s New Braids, Duncan, Miss., from the "In That Land of Perfect Day" book, featured in the "Southbound" exhibition. Brandon Thibodeaux  Super Sunday Uptown, New Orleans Akasha Rabut  Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, 2017, featured in the "Southbound" exhibition. Mark Steinmetz  Mary Bell #305026 (Incarcerated at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women), Anna, 2013, from the "Passion Play" series, in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana, featured in the "Southbound" exhibition. Deborah Luster—Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art  Couple in Park, 2016, featured in the "New Southern Photography" exhibition. Whitten Sabbatini—Ogden Museum of Southern Art  Snake, 2015, featured in the "New Southern Photography" exhibition. Aaron Hardin—Ogden Museum of Southern Art  Jihad Lamp, Fort Polk, Louisiana, 2006, from the "Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan" series, featured in the "Southbound" exhibition. Chris Sims—Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art  Post–Monuments, New Orleans, (General P.G.T. Beauregard, erected 1913), 2017, from the "Post-Monuments" series, featured in the "Louisiana Contemporary" exhibition. 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