Italian photographer Alessandro Imbriaco is the 19th winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography, and will see his project – The Garden – published in a book in five European countries

I had the pleasure of attending the Art Director’s Club Annual Awards the other night on the invitation of my friend (and Board member) Ann Harakawa from the design firm Two Twelve. In college, I worked at a small design firm in New Haven, so design has always been near and dear to my heart. But more specifically, I am really interested in looking at the cross pollination of photography into other disciplines. So let’s look at some of the photo-related award winners…

Photographer Daido Moriyama won the Lifetime Achievement Award. A video that preceded the presentation showed Moriyama capturing his black-and-white, expressionistic images, shooting on the streets of Tokyo with a small pocket camera, sometimes from the hip or without looking through the viewfinder. Moriyama took his iconic photo “Stray Dog” while in his 20s, but for a time he abandoned photography, frustrated that his work was only copying. After falling into a period of drug use, he by chance found and bought a used Pentax and then returned to making art.

Link: LightBox

Stan Douglas has been named the recipient of the prestigious Infinity Award for Art by the International Center of Photography. Tonight, he will be presented the award at a ceremony in New York City. Douglas works in various media including video, installation and photography. Here, Lightbox visits highlights of three projects from the artist’s prolific photographic endeavors.

Link: LightBox

The Overseas Press Club of America has just announced the winners of its annual awards. LightBox presents the work of the photojournalists who were honored by the OPC, and who will be further recognized tonight at the organization’s gala.

Photo by André Liohn

White South African teens wrestle with an uncertain identity. An extreme right-wing group is teaching young Afrikaners to eschew Nelson Mandela’s vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The fringe group Kommandokorps organizes camps during school holidays where Afrikaner teenagers learn self-defense and how to combat a perceived black enemy. The group’s leader, self-proclaimed ‘Colonel’ Franz Jooste, served with the South African Defence Force under the old apartheid regime. The teenagers are taught (brainwashed might be a more accurate term) that they are their own people — not South Africans but Afrikaners — and that they shouldn’t integrate in the new democratic South Africa.

This disturbing multimedia production about the racist, right-wing organization was awarded 1st Prize in Multimedia by World Press Photo. The story was made by Dutch journalist/videographer Elles van Gelder & Dutch photojournalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien in conjunction with their production company froginatent.com.

On Saturday, April 14, 2012 the Illinois Press Photographers Association presented John H. White with the first Keep in Flight Lifetime Achievement Award. Former Columbia College student, friend and John’s co-worker at the Sun-Times, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, flew in from Washington D.C. to present John with the special award.

Massoud Hossaini’s photos of the carnage following a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kabul were so powerful that The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all published them on their front pages on December 7. But each ran different images from the same scene.

The Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents is calling for entries, with photographers invited to submit their work for a chance to win a €7000 cash prize.

“He’s like a lot of the guys I met overseas. He had a great way of building a friendship fast at first, then he took two giant steps back and disappeared against the wall. He became a fly. Him being there, it got rid of a lot of ambivalence.”

Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize on Monday afternoon for “Welcome Home: The Story of Scott Ostrom,” which won in the feature category

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Columbia University has announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners—and they include Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing took the title in the category of breaking news photography.

- Breaking News Photography: Massoud Hossaini, Agence France-Presse
- Feature Photography: Craig F. Walker, Denver Post | Story

Photographers have less two weeks to enter this year’s Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

The final selection included JP Lopez ’ reportage on starving children in Guatemala, Colin Delfosse on military sites in Kazakhstan, and Misha Freidman on the tuberculosis epidemic in former Soviet states. Their work will be exhibited at the Bar Floréal in Paris in September 2012.

This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 and receive mentorship for the project from one LUCEO member.

Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel of four judges presided over by moderator Michael Wichita, Director of Photography for AARP Bulletin, will narrow the decision to one winner who will be announced during LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph.

The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 10, 2012.