Category: Contests

  • THE CENTER AWARDS: Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award: Dan Fenstermacher – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award: Dan Fenstermacher – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award: Dan Fenstermacher – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Dan Fenstermacher for being selected for CENTER’s Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizing his project, Food Chain. The Excellence in Multimedia Storytelling Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based medi via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-excellence-in-multimedia-award-dan-fenstermacher/ Working everyday except Tuesdays the fisherman from the seaside…

  • THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Debe Arlook – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Debe Arlook – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Debe Arlook – LENSCRATCH Debe Arlook Congratulations to Debe Arlook for being selected for CENTER’s Social Award recognizing her project, one, one thousand…. The Social Awards recognize work engaged in social issues. All projects exploring social topics or themes were eligible. J via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-social-award/ one, one thousand… is a…

  • THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Luis Corzo – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Luis Corzo – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Social Award: Luis Corzo – LENSCRATCH Congratulations to Luiz Corzo for being selected for CENTER’s Social Award recognizing his project, PASACO. The Social Awards recognize work engaged in social issues. All projects exploring social topics or themes were eligible. JUROR: Jess T. Dugan, Arti via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-social-award-luis-corzo/ (Guatemala City, Guatemala) On the…

  • THE CENTER AWARDS: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio – LENSCRATCH

    THE CENTER AWARDS: Environmental Award: Esha Chiocchio – LENSCRATCH Congratulations 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 via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/06/the-center-awards-environmental-award-esha-chiocchio/ Congratulations to Esha Chiocchio for being selected…

  • 2022 Pulitzer Prize: These photos by Marcus Yam won – Los Angeles Times

    2022 Pulitzer Prize: These photos by Marcus Yam won – Los Angeles Times

    Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist, wins Pulitzer The 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography goes to Marcus Yam, the sixth L.A. Times journalist to win a Pulitzer for photography categories. via Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-09/marcus-yam-los-angeles-times-foreign-correspondent-and-photojournalist-wins-pulitzer Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize…

  • Honoring the legacy of fallen AP photographer | Editor and Publisher

    Link: The 2022 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer who was killed reporting in Afghanistan in 2014, has been awarded to Paula Bronstein, a freelance photojournalist currently working in Kyiv.

  • Getty Images Photojournalists Honored as Winners at the 2022 Pulitzer Prize | Getty Images Press Room | Latest company news, media announcements and information

    Getty Images Photojournalists Honored as Winners at the 2022 Pulitzer Prize | Getty Images Press Room | Latest company news, media announcements and information

    Getty Images Newsroom – Getty Images Keep up with the latest news from Getty Images, iStock & Unsplash via Getty Images Newsroom – Getty Images: http://press.gettyimages.com/getty-images-photojournalists-honored-as-winners-at-the-2022-pulitzer-prize/ Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry have been named winners in the Breaking News Photography category for their extensive coverage documenting the January 6th…

  • 2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine

    2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine

    2022 World Press Photo Contest Winners Announced — Blind Magazine The 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 Pre via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/2022-world-press-photo-contest-winners-announced/ Global jury chair…

  • Winners of 2022 World Press Photo Contest

    Colonisation and environmental loss the focus of winning World Press Photos The 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.html The legacy of colonisation and environmental loss were the focus of the winning photographs in this year’s World Press Photo Contest.

  • Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo – The Globe and Mail

    Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo – The Globe and Mail

    Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo Photo of a memorial on Tk’emlups te Secwepemc land just outside Kamloops, B.C., has been named the World Press Photo of the Year via The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-canadian-photojournalist-amber-bracken-wins-world-press-photo-of-the/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for…

  • The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition | PetaPixel

    The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition | PetaPixel

    The Regional Winners of the 2022 World Press Photography Competition The World Press Photo organization has announced the winners of its 2022 competition. Now in its 65th year, the competition recently switched to a new via 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…

  • Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners | PetaPixel

    Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners | PetaPixel

    Leica Announces its Women Foto Project Award Winners To expand diverse representation in photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/09/leica-announces-leica-women-foto-project-award-winners-and-mentees/ Leica Camera has announced the winners of the third annual Leica Women Foto Project Award in partnership with Fotografiska and VII Photo Agency, with the aim of expanding diverse representation in photography and empowering the female point of…

  • Chris Johns Lifetime Achievement Award – The Photo Society

    Link: The Photo Society is proud to announce Chris Johns, former staff photographer and Executive Editor of National Geographic magazine is this years Lifetime Achievement winner.

  • ‘We don’t have a limit’: Yasuyoshi Chiba – agency photographer of 2021 | World news | The Guardian

    ‘We don’t have a limit’: Yasuyoshi Chiba – agency photographer of 2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba has been chosen by the picture desk as its agency photographer of the year. We hear from the AFP photojournalist via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/23/we-dont-have-a-limit-yasuyoshi-chiba-agency-photographer-of-2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba has been chosen by the picture desk as its agency photographer of the year. We…

  • 2021 Winners | Yunghi Grant

    2021 Winners The Yunghi Grant Winner 2021 via Yunghi Grant: https://yunghikim.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/2409/ The Yunghi Grant is especially mindful of photojournalist’s growth: personally and professionally. The perseverance and resilience to take a story to its conclusion, or nearly so is well noted.

  • Photographing the Russian Occupation of Georgia | Blind

    Photographing the Russian Occupation of Georgia Robakidze’s project “Creeping Borders” looks at the Russian presence in Georgia, and the effects of the installation of artificial barriers along the occupation line on the lives of both individuals and whole communities. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/photographing-the-russian-occupation-of-georgia-en Tako Robakidze’s project “Creeping Borders” looks at the Russian presence in Georgia, and the…

  • Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists – LENSCRATCH

    Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists – LENSCRATCH

    Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Finalists – LENSCRATCH Today we share the Student Project Finalists and the Visionary Project Finalists the in the Film Photo Award Fall 2021. The Film Photo Award Fall 2021 Juror, Larisa Leclair shares some remarks about the selections: In the 1990’s, just before the integrati via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2021/11/film-photo-award-fall-2021-finalists/ Today we…

  • On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog

    On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog

    On the Depiction of Africans in Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog As a child during the 1980s, I grew up with a weekly diet of TIME magazine and the evening news. The famine in Ethiopia during the decade generated an endless stream of news filled with images of Black bodies, so much so that my…

  • LOBA Winner 2021: Ana María Arévalo Gosen – YouTube

    LOBA Winner 2021: Ana María Arévalo Gosen – YouTube

    LOBA Winner 2021: Ana María Arévalo Gosen The series by this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Award winner Ana María Arévalo Gosen is titled “Días Eternos”, which translates as “Eternal Days”. It addresses… via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT1kzwl-mWc The series by this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Award winner Ana María Arévalo Gosen is titled “Días Eternos”, which translates…

  • LOBA Winner Newcomer 2021: Emile Ducke – YouTube

    LOBA Winner Newcomer 2021: Emile Ducke – YouTube

    LOBA Winner Newcomer 2021: Emile Ducke Kolyma – Along the Road of Bones: Thousands of gulag inmates from the Stalin era died while helping to build a high-speed road through the remote Kolyma regi… via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vAcIjDqOI Kolyma – Along the Road of Bones: Thousands of gulag inmates from the Stalin era died while helping…