The Trump assassination attempt dominated proceedings.
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The Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA, dominated the 2025 Eyes of History® photo contest — organized by The White House News Photographers Association — as the two top honors both went to photographers present that day.
We are pleased to announce that Maria Guțu is the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2024. The Moldovan photographer’s series, Homeland, draws from her personal experiences of growing up with her grandparents, while her parents, like many in her homeland, had to move abroad for economic reasons. Her work reflects on the themes of roots and home in the context of a country where nearly a quarter of the population has left in the past two decades.
(508) LOBA 2024 Winner – Davide Monteleone – YouTube:
How can sustainability emerge in the future without repeating the errors of the past? The series questions the change-over to renewable energy sources and reveals the problems related to the complex geopolitical, social and ecological effects of copper, lithium and cobalt mining.
Her work explores themes of war, destruction, and memory.
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Photographer Sophie Ristelhueber is the 2025 Hasselblad Award laureate, the world’s largest photography award, and is set to receive a Hasselblad camera and two million Swedish Krona ($197,000).
The four women win $10,000 and a high-end Leica photo kit.
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This year’s awardees are American photographer Priya Suresh Kambli, Canadian Jennifer Osborne, Mexican photographer Koral Carballo, and Anna Neubauer of the United Kingdom. They were selected by a panel of acclaimed and notable judges, including award-winning photojournalists, and each winner will receive a Leica SL3 camera, Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-70mm f/2.8 ASPH lens, and $10,000.
Golden Olympic moment tops World Sports Photography awards
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Sports photography is a game of split-second timing and never-to-be-repeated moments, so to be at the top of your game takes no small amount of skill. The best of the best in this demanding genre has just been recognized with the winning frames from the World Sports Photography Awards.
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EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in grants — $3,000 to each of six photojournalists — is being dispersed in this the 10th year of the Yunghi Kim Grant.
The W. Eugene Smith Fund has announced the recipients of its 2024 grants, issuing $72,500 to photographers, the most in 45 years.
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Adriana Loureiro Fernández from Venezuela is the recipient of this year’s $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for her project, Paradise Lost, which Fernández says is a tribute to her generation’s search for change. The Fund explains that Paradise Lost encapsulates several stories happening at once, amounting to “an untenable situation framed by both tragedy and splendor.”
The Chronicle tracked the drug trade into tiny towns where top dealers live in mansions — work that earned an inaugural Poynter Prize
“Executing the images both in Honduras and here in San Francisco was extremely tricky. In Honduras, I mostly photographed from car windows unless I was invited into someone’s home. A couple of times I stepped out of the car and men who were highly armed quickly approached me to intimidate me.
A look at the work of the recipients of this year’s Ian Parry photojournalism grant
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A look at the work of the recipients of the 2024 Ian Parry photojournalism grant (IPPG), which supports young and emerging photographers. This year’s winner is Iva Sidash, from Ukraine. Ximena Borrazas received the Tom Stoddart award for excellence and the Gentex Corp personal safety award dedicated to ensuring the protection of aspiring photojournalists. The IPPG’s partner, Save the Children, selected Shefali Rafiq from the shortlist of 10 finalists for a special commission
The winners of the 15th Epson International Pano Awards have been announced with Kelvin Yuen crowned 2024 Open Photographer of the Year.
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The winners of the 15th Epson International Pano Awards have been announced with Kelvin Yuen crowned the 2024 Open Photographer of the Year.
A well-earned honor.
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Leica is honoring renowned German photographer Herlinde Koelbl with the Leica Hall of Fame Award for her lifetime of photographic achievements. One of Koelbl’s photos has also been named the Leica Picture of the Year 2024, and the limited-edition print will be available exclusively at Leica Galleries.
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The Italian photographer Davide Monteleone’s series has earned him the 2024 Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
Here are the 35 shortlisted titles for this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, which celebrate the evolving narrative of the photobook.
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Here are the 35 shortlisted titles for this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards, which celebrate the evolving narrative of the photobook.
https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-2024-photobook-awards-shortlist/
The Creator Labs Photo Fund provides financial support to thirty photographers at formative moments in their careers.
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Presented by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs, the fund provides financial support to thirty photographers at formative moments in their careers. Here, meet the winners, recognized for their exceptional artistic visions.
https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2024-creator-labs-photo-fund/
The competition has a high pedigree.
An impactful photo showing 4,000 birds that died from colliding with buildings has won Bird Photographer of the Year 2024.
I want to thank everyone who submitted to The Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards. We had many amazing entries, and I’m always astounded by the myriad of ways photographers tell…
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While each project stands on its own with unique themes, together, they emphasize our shared struggles, triumphs, and connections. From issues of displacement and illness to the search for identity, this year’s winning photographers present relatable stories that emphasize our interconnectedness.
‘I hope the photos we take show the world that this war, and the suffering, must end.’
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AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza.
Funding for environmental visual storytellers.
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Of the seven grants, six offer $5,000 each in funding, while the Dr. Jane Goodall Environmental Photography Grant comes with $20,000 in financial support to help the winning photographer complete a photo project.
https://petapixel.com/2024/09/08/50000-in-grants-up-for-grabs-for-environmental-photographers/
Photojournalist Thalia Juarez selected for one-year fellowship in which she will produce original climate photojournalism