Category: Contests
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Annual Sports Shooter Contest Details Announced
Big changes for the Sports Shooter Annual Contest! This year we will be holding a sports portfolio competition to determine the best “Sports Shooter” of 2010 … The Sports Shooter Annual Portfolio Competition is born. Rather than several individual categories, this year we will have just two: Pro and Student. For pros a portfolio must…
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French retail chain offers three photojournalism grants – British Journal of Photography
FNAC, a French entertainment retail chain, has unveiled the recipients of its inaugural photojournalism grants with photographers Jan Banning, Cedric Gerbehaye and Anastasia Taylor-Lind each receiving €8000 Link: French retail chain offers three photojournalism grants – British Journal of Photography
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DSLR News Shooter | Danfung Dennis scoops Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Award for Documentary Filmmaking – shot on a 5DmkII
Huge congratulations to photojournalist turned filmmaker Danfung Dennis for winning the top prize in the Documentary Filmmaking category of the Sundance festival awards. He also scooped the World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary Filmmaking. His film “Hell and Back Again” was shot on the 5DmkII and follows the story of a Marine fighting in the…
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Pictures of the Year International – Deadline Today
Pictures of the Year International – Deadline Today
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PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » POYi Call for Entries
POYi Call for Entries | PDNPulse Organizers of the Picture of the Year International competition have put out a call for entries for their 68th annual competition. The contest has categories for documentary photography, multimedia, and visual editing. The registration and entry deadline via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/01/poyi-call-for-entries.html The registration and entry deadline is Friday, January 14,…
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Call For Entries: NPPA's 2011 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
The entry deadline for all categories is Friday, January 28, 2011. Link: Call For Entries: NPPA’s 2011 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
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PDN Pulse » TIME Mag Calls Mauricio Lima Wire Photog of the Year
TIME Mag Calls Mauricio Lima Wire Photog of the Year | PDNPulse Last week TIME magazine called Brazilian photographer Mauricio Lima “Wire Photographer of the Year.” This is the first year TIME has singled out a wire photographer for recognition. A former sports photographer, the Sao Paulo-based Lima joined AFP ten yea via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/12/time-mag-calls-mauricio-lima-wire-photog-of-the-year.html…
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PDN Pulse » NGS Photo Contest Winner: Does It Look Real to You?
NGS Photo Contest Winner: Does It Look Real to You? | PDNPulse Aaron Lim Bon Teck of Singapore has won the $10,000 grand prize in the 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest with an image of the eruption of Indonesia’s Gunung Rinjani volcano. It’s an impressive shot, but it’s hard to believe this panoramic image via…
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New Magnum Fund Pays Out for Deep Photo Stories | Raw File
New Magnum Fund Pays Out for Deep Photo Stories The Magnum Foundation has launched a new initiative called the Emergency Fund support photographers working on thoughtful, long-form stories around the world. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/12/new-magnum-fund-pays-out-for-deep-photo-stories/ The Magnum Foundation has launched a new initiative called the Emergency Fund to offer support for photographers working on thoughtful, long-form…
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Entry Deadline For Costa Courtroom Photo Award: January 15
Entry Deadline For Costa Courtroom Photo Award: January 15
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CPOY Judge Eric Seals
‘Surreal and Motivating!’ Those are the two words that come to my mind when I think about the week I spent at the University of Missouri judging the 65th College Photographer of the Year last month. Link: CPOY
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World Press Photo now open for entries – British Journal of Photography
Professional photographers have until 07 January to register for the 2011 edition of the prestigious World Press Photo, and 13 January to upload their images for consideration
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Shortlist released for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011 – British Journal of Photography
Photographers Thomas Demand, Roe Ethridge, Jim Goldberg and Elad Lassry have been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, one of the key events of the photographic calendar in the UK Link: Shortlist released for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011 – British Journal of Photography
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Tom Kennedy Announces Alexia Foundation Grant Entry Deadlines
“It is not a portfolio competition. The grants are awarded to a photojournalist who can further cultural understanding and world peace by conceiving and writing a concise, focused, and meaningful story proposal, and who can demonstrate the ability to visually execute that story with compelling images. There is no mathematical formula for determining grantees, but…
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National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010 – The Big Picture
National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate the via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html National Geographic is once again holding their annual…
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National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010 – The Big Picture
National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate the via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html National Geographic is once again holding their annual…
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PDN Pulse » Open Society Announces 2010 Audience Engagement Grant Winners
Open Society Announces 2010 Audience Engagement Grant Winners | PDNPulse The Open Society Documentary Photography Project yesterday announced the winners of this year’s Audience Engagement Grants. Founded in 2005 with the name “the Distribution Grant,” the grant seeks to engage communities and decision makers in human rights a via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2010/11/open-society-announces-2010-audience-engagement-grant-winners.html The Open Society Documentary…
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Ohio University's Rachel Mummey Wins College Photographer Of The Year
The runner-up College Photographer of the Year is Ty Cacek of Western Kentucky University. Link: Ohio University’s Rachel Mummey Wins College Photographer Of The Year
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Video Interview with Ryan Henriksen, 64th College Photographer of the Year
Video Interview with Ryan Henriksen 64th College Photographer of the Year Link: 65th College Photographer of the Year | Blog
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Linda Forsell is Surely the Magnum Expressions Award Winner-Elect « Prison Photography
Linda Forsell is Surely the Magnum Expressions Award Winner-Elect UPDATE 11.12.2010, 12.30pm PST: Forsell didn’t win. Announced 11.12.2010 in Bristol, UK Yvonne Venegas won for her portrayal of Maria Elvia de Hank, millionaire wife of an eccentric former ma… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/linda-forsell-is-surely-the-magnum-expressions-award-winner-elect/ Forsell’s Life’s a Blast is the sweetest, never-escaping-bitter view of Palestine, Gaza…