Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 2 August 2019 – Photojournalism Now

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up – 2 August 2019

Today’s edition of Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up is dedicated to an editorial on photography awards. Opinion: What is the value of photography awards? There’s been discussion on …

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There’s been discussion on Facebook recently about the value of photography awards versus other means of promoting photography such as books. Criticism has been laid that photography awards that charge an entry fee are money-grabbers. That may be true of big international awards that attract thousands of entries by promising global exposure for a select few. The odds in these competitions are like a crapshoot, ridiculously slim.