Category: Contests
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Strazzante, Ackerman win top honors at Southern
Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune and Jenn Ackerman, a graduate student at Ohio University, won top honors as 2008 Southern Photographer of the Year and 2008 Southern Student Photographer of the Year, respectively, this weekend. Strazzante also won Best of Show with his diptychs entitled “Echoes from the Past” pairing his coverage of a…
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Getty's John Moore Named Photojournalist Of The Year (Larger Markets)
John Moore of Getty Images was picked as the NPPA 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition’s Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets) today at the end of the final round of judging in this year’s contest at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Check it out here.
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Judges Pick Picture Story Winners In NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
Judges at NPPA’s 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute today picked winners in the categories International News Picture Story, Enterprise Picture Story (Smaller and Larger Markets), Best Published Picture Story (Smaller and Larger Markets), and in the new category Investigative Issue Picture Story. Check it out here.
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Record fourth 'best photographer' crown for Scottish snapper
The Scotsman’s Ian Rutherford has been named photographer of the year for a record fourth time. Ian picked up the prestigious gong at the annual First ScotRail Press Photography Awards in Glasgow last night. His winning portfolio included shots of troops from the Royal Regiment of Scotland returning from Iraq, the Open Golf and the…
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Judges Pick Web Site Winners In NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
Judges picking winners in the Web site categories of NPPA’s 2008 Best Of Photojournalism competition have released the following partial results, along with judges’ comments, from the contest’s host site at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Check it out here.
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Three Days Of Judging: More 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Winners
Photo by Anthony Suau On the third full day of judging at NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, judges picked winners in the categories Domestic News Picture Story, International News, General News, Enterprise, Natural Disaster, and Environmental Picture Story. Check it out here.
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Judges Pick More Winners During Second Day Of NPPA's 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Contest
On the second full day of judging at NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, judges picked winners in the categories Sports Photojournalist of the Year, Non-Traditional Journalism Publishing, Sports Picture Story, Sports Portfolio, Celebrity Picture Story, Natural Habitat, Domestic News, Serial Portrait, Local Portrait & Personality, and The Road…
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Best of Photojournalism 2008 Still Photo Winners
photo by Seamus Murphy Welcome to the winners page for BOP 2008! Check it out here.
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Judges Picking Winners In 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Categories
Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition started today at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL, and it’s NPPA’s biggest Best Of Photojournalism contest to date. Check it out here.
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Photographer Plans To Burn Pictures In Protest At Awards Snub (Sunday Herald)
Freelance photographer Roddy Mackay was told he was shortlisted for the Young Photographer of the Year category in the prestigious national awards at the end of February – only to be told soon after that judges had decided to withdraw the prize because the overall standard of entries in the category was “not good enough”.…
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REAL Photography Award – Home
The REAL Photography Award exhibition will be on view at LP II Art Exhibition Centre in Rotterdam from 21 March – 4 May 2008. The exhibition will display the work of the 30 award nominees, including the six finalists. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to other countries later in the year. Check it out…
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Hans-Christian Schink Wins Inaugural REAL Photography Award – PDN
German photographer Hans-Christian Schink has won the first REAL Photography Award, which ING Real Estate presents biannually to an international photographer shooting nature, development or architecture. Schink received the €50,000 (about $77,100) prize at a ceremony in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on March 20. Schink was awarded the prize for his black-and-white print of water and mountains,…
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Best Of Photojournalism Still Photography & Web Judging Starts Monday
Judging in the Still Photography and Web categories of NPPA’s Best Of Photojournalism competition will start Monday at the contest’s host site, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL, and it’s NPPA’s biggest Best Of Photojournalism contest to date. “More than 4,000 people entered the contest, up more than 25 percent over…
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AFJ Award 2008- Canon Professional Network
photo by Veronique de Viguerie The French Association of Women Journalists (AFJ) and Canon France are launching, with Images Evidence, the eighth Canon Female Photojournalist Award. The Award is open to professional women photojournalists of any age and nationality and is supported by Le Figaro Magazine. It is presented every year during the Visa pour…
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Esko Männikkö wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008
Esko Männikkö (b. 1959, Finland) documents the lives of those who inhabit the periphery. Initially a hunter, his passion developed from this to shooting photographs in the early 1980s. Männikkö became widely known for The Female Pike, which featured bachelors living isolated lives in the Finnish countryside. In this series, as well as his work…
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Scripps Howard Foundation: What's New
PHOTOJOURNALISM Matt McClain of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver receives $10,000 and a trophy for his portfolio of complex and memorable images, which chronicled the story of a town devastated by a tornado and helped make Colorado’s energy rush real to readers. Finalists: Sam Dean, The Roanoke (Va.) Times, and John Moore, Getty Images…
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World Press Photo = Dutch TV Game Show?
Two of the photographers who participated in the 2008 World Press Photo judging, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, have written a fascinating article for foto8 about the judging process. Check it out here.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2008: Video News Photography: Winners
Join Al Tompkins to learn what impressed the judges, what ethical issues arose in this year’s entries, and how the backpack journalist trend is affecting photojournalism. Check it out here.