The Finalists of the W. Eugene Smith Fund’s $40,000 Photography GrantOne photographer will be selected for a $40,000 grant.via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/09/09/the-finalists-of-the-w-eugene-smith-funds-40000-photography-grant/Finalists have also been named in the Smith Fund’s 5th annual Student category and 26th annual Howard Chapnick Grant, which is awarded to encourage leadership in any field ancillary to photojournalism, such as picture editing, […]

Getty Images Awards “Inclusion” Grants to Eight Photojournalists WorldwideThe $5,000 grants are awarded to emerging photographers and videographers from historically underrepresented groups.via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/751298/getty-images-awards-inclusion-grants-to-eight-photojournalists-worldwide/Those storytellers include Ivan McClellan, whose work documents Black cowboys in America; Lexi Parra, a photographer based in Caracas, Venezuela whose images examine youth culture and themes of inequality and violence; and […]

International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack AwardThe Leica Oskar Barnack Award is an international photo contest for photographers. Awarded will contemporary, outstanding reportage photography.via International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award: https://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/The shortlisted candidates for the internationally-renowned Leica Oskar Barnack Award photo competition, that will be granted this year for the […]

The 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize: 25 to Watch – LENSCRATCHEvery year we seek to celebrate the next generation of photographic artists through our Student Prize Awards program. 2022 was a stellar year for photography, not only with a record number of excellent submissions, but the work itself reflected deep thinking and profound subject matter that it made […]

THE CENTER AWARDS: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio – LENSCRATCHCongratulations to Esha Chiocchio for being selected for CENTER’s Environmental Award recognizing her project, Good Earth. The Environmental Awards recognize work focusing on the state of the ecological environment. Topics may include but are not limited to, conservation, biodiversity, ecology, climate change, or other issues concerning the […]

2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind MagazineThe World Press Photo Contest recognizes the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the previous year. This year, the winners were chosen out of 64,823 photographs and open format entries, by 4,066 photographers from 130 countries.  World Press Photo of the Year: Kamloops Residential SchoolAmber Bracken, […]

Colonisation and environmental loss the focus of winning World Press PhotosThe contest recognises the best in photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world.via The Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/colonisation-and-environmental-loss-the-focus-of-winning-world-press-photos-20220407-p5abjl.htmlThe legacy of colonisation and environmental loss were the focus of the winning photographs in this year’s World Press Photo Contest.

The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography CompetitionThe World Press Photo organization has announced the winners of its 2022 competition. Now in its 65th year, the competition recently switched to a newvia PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/24/the-regional-winners-of-the-2022-world-press-photography-competition/The World Press Photo organization switched to a new regional model for the 2022 competition, as it found that there […]