Category: Contests
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Hussin wins Hearst multimedia competition
Photojournalism students Tim Hussin and Jeremiah Stanley placed first and 12th, respectively, in the inaugural Hearst Foundation intercollegiate multimedia competition, professor John Freeman announced. Check it out here.
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State of the Art: ICP Infinity Award Winners Announced
Award season continues apace, and the next big show will occur one week from tonight when the International Center of Photography presents its coveted Infinity Awards for 2008. But the word is already out about who’ll be receiving prizes this year. Check it out here.
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The Travel Photographer: John Stanmeyer: Malaria: NG Award
The photojournalism award, which honors John Stanmeyer’s photographs in the “Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria also names Senior Editor David Griffin, Deputy Director Susan A. Smith, Design Director David C. Whitmore and Senior Photo Editor Sarah Leen. The article ran in the July 2007 NGM. Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Venessa Winship Named Sony's First Photographer of the Year
Clearly I should already have known who Vanessa Winship is. I mean, she won the first World Press Photo award ever given in the arts category; she’s exhibited at Visa pour l’Image, Les Recontres d’Arles, and the Leica Gallery; oh, and did I mention…she makes beautiful, beautiful images. Check it out here.
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State of the Art: Seven Photographers Win Guggenheim Awards
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of it Fellowship grants for 2008. Among the 190 awards, seven went to photographers Check it out here.
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And the Overseas Press Club Awards Go To….
Last night at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Manhattan, the Overseas Press Club handed out its awards for journalism from abroad. The OPC awards include four very coveted photojournalism prizes. Check it out here.
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Getty's John Moore Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal
Tonight senior staff photojournalist John B. Moore of Getty Images is being presented with the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal award from the Overseas Press Club of America at the organization’s sixty-ninth annual awards dinner in Manhattan. The Capa award is given by the OPC in recognition of the “best published photographic reporting from…
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Jonas Bendiksen Wins $50,000 National Geographic Grant
The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth. The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered…
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Sun shooters bag awards Edmonton News- Sun shooters bag awards
Edmonton Sun photo editor Tom Braid couldn’t be prouder of his staff. “I’m just proud to be part of the team,” Braid said yesterday after Sun shooters walked off with an armload of hardware at the News Photographers Association of Canada’s second annual national pictures of the year awards in Vancouver. Jason Franson won first…
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Detrick Wins Top Honors in Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest
Chris Detrick’s photograph of a Pepperdine University basketball player gouging the eyes of an opponent, won top honors in the Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest. Check it out here.
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A Bee photographer's work garners more honors
Bryan Patrick picked up another Photographer of the Year trophy the first weekend in April, and a few days later The Bee’s front page reminded us why. Patrick’s photos from the Olympic torch relay and protests in San Francisco on April 9 stood out as they often do: for storytelling and technical excellence, but even…
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The inside story behind Preston Gannaway's Pulitzer Prize
Like much of the journalism we do, the St. Pierre project required that members of the community trust in our ability to tell an important human story. As we at the Monitor celebrate this historic moment for the newspaper, we also recognize our debt to the spirit of Carolynne St. Pierre and to Rich and…
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Winners In 2008 Best Of Photojournalism Picture Editing Categories Announced
The Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year (Individual) is Brad Loper of The Dallas Morning News. Second place is Mary Cooney of the Los Angeles Times, and third place is Dan Habib of The Concord Monitor. Honorable Mentions were awarded to Janet Reeves of The Rocky Mountain News, and to Mark Edelson of The Palm…
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俗画 zokuga 俗画: Bryan Patrick
Congrats to Bryan Patrick for winning the San Francisco Bay Area Photographers Association photog of the year award. Well deserved. The Bee put up a gallery of his portfolio Check it out here.
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Combat Camera Airman receives best in DOD honor
A photojournalist from the 1st Combat Camera Squadron here has been recognized as the best in the Department of Defense. Staff Sgt. Stacy Pearsall was named Military Photographer of the Year. She received the honor against more than 1,700 entries submitted by her peers from all branches of the U.S. military worldwide. Check it out…
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Photos by Preston Gannaway. Pulitzer warded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. Check it out here.
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2008 Pulitzer Prizes-BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY, Works
Photo by Adrees Latif of Reuters. A wounded Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai, lay before a Burmese soldier yesterday in Yangon, Myanmar, as troops attacked protesters. Mr. Nagai later died. Published September 28, 2007. Check it out here.
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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.