Category: Contests
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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.
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Free Press staffer wins state Photographer of the Year award | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press photographer Rashaun Rucker was named Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers Association Saturday in its 55th annual Pictures of the Year contest. Rucker, 29, is the first African American to win the award, which celebrates a year’s worth of exemplary visual storytelling. “I almost cried,” Rucker said. “Even though…
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SportsShooter.com: The 'Clip Contest'
Jacob Hannah/Watertown Daily Times The SportsShooter.com clip contest is open to all members. And the members are the judges too. Enter each month, vote each month and you just may be crowned “SportsShooter.com Photographer of the Year” at the end of the year. Check it out here.
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2008 ICP Infinity Awards Announced
The International Center for Photography has selected the winners of the 24th Annual Infinity Awards for Excellence in Photography. The Lifetime Achievement Award is going to Malick Sidibé, a photographer from Mali who began documenting West African life in the 1950s. Check it out here.
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Judging POYi: I am not a moron!
Brad Mangin: The email arrived on December 21, 2007. Subject: “Invitation to judge POYi.” The words that followed stunned me: “Greetings from Pictures of the Year International. My name is Rick Shaw and I am the director for the international photojournalism program. It is my privilege to invite you to participate on the judging panel…
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Getty Images Announces First Two Winners of 2008 Grants for Editorial Photography
Getty Images announced today that Ian Martin and Lorena Ros will each receive $20,000 in funding, enabling them to pursue new documentary photography projects. In addition, each grant recipient receives collaborative support from Getty Images photo editors as they implement their winning projects. Ian Martin’s project, “Hidden Minority: South Africa’s White Poor,” looks at the…
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Eich, Sinclair Win 2008 Alexia Foundation Grants
Photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the 2008 Alexia Foundation Grant for professionals, and Matt Eich, a senior photojournalism major at Ohio University, is the student winner, the Alexia Foundation announced today. The Alexia Foundation for World Peace was established by the family of Alexia Tsairis, an honors photojournalism student at the S.I. Newhouse…
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Handicapping The Pulitzers: Walter Reed? Virginia Tech? China? And Likely Some Surprises
A review of some of the preliminary awards, which often foretell Pulitzer success, as well as interviews with editors and current and former jurors, indicates some frontrunners have emerged. Check it out here.
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The Pilot's Stephen M. Katz named newspaper photographer of the year | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
UPDATE: Rich-Joseph Facun won first place in general news reporting for this image of 5-year-old Evan Burgoon watching for his father at Oceana Naval Air Station. Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot was named the newspaper photographer of the year Friday night, taking the top honor in the 65th Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition. “We’re extremely proud of…
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Virginian-Pilot photographer takes first at POYI contest – Columbia Missourian
After hours of deliberation, four judges selected Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot as the Newspaper Photographer of the Year Friday night. “His pictures had diversity,” said Jeanie Adams-Smith, an associate professor of photojournalism at Western Kentucky University and one of the judges for the 65th annual Pictures of the Year International contest. “He could…
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WHNPA Launches Student POY Contest
The White House News Photographers Association has launched a Student Photographer of the Year contest, and the deadline for entering the inaugural competition is March 1, 2008. Check it out here.