Bayeux-Calvados Award calling for entries
Link: British Journal of Photography
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.
Category: Contests
Pulitzer Winner Met His Subject On A Hike
“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.”
Massoud Hossaini and Craig F. Walker Win 2012 Pulitzer Prizes
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
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner: Massoud Hossaini
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.
Ladies and gentlemen, here are this year’s Pulitzer winners
- Breaking News Photography: Massoud Hossaini, Agence France-Presse
- Feature Photography: Craig F. Walker, Denver Post | Story
Deadline fast approaching for Getty Images Editorial Grants
Link: British Journal of Photography
Photographers have less two weeks to enter this year’s Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000
2012 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Ten Photographers
Winners of Visa de l’ANI 2011
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.
National Magazine Awards 2012 Finalists Announced (photo categories)
Student Project Award
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.