Category: Contests
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Legendary Picture Editor John G. Morris To Receive ICP Lifetime Achievement Award
Link: Now living in France, Morris, 93, has been called “the world’s most influential photography editor.” While working for Life magazine in the early 1940s he was Robert Capa’s picture editor on D-Day in World War II, and his friends Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour picked him to be Magnum Photos’ executive…
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LUCEO's Student Project Award Deadline Coming Up | Luceo Images
Link: The deadline is fast approaching for the first annual LUCEO Images Student Project Award, a cash prize of $1,000 which will be announced at this year’s invite-only LOOKbetween Festival in June. Applications are due via FTP by midnight EST Saturday, May 15.
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Student Project Award – The 10 Finalists | Luceo Images
Link: With this being our first year for the Award, we didn’t really know what to expect. But we were completely blown away with the turn out – 43 different schools and universities were represented, spanning the globe from the US to Germany to Bangladesh to Denmark to the UK. We were also very pleased…
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Lu Guang Wins National Geographic Photography Grant
Link: “His work is a testament to the power of how a single photographer, armed with a vision, can really [communicate] to the rest of the world,” says Kurt Mutchler, Executive Editor of photography at National Geographic.
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Oskar Barnack Award Winner Jens Olof Lasthein « The Leica Camera
Link: The pictures are made in Abkhazia, one of the small breakaway republics of Georgia. I went there because I was curious about life in a country which didn’t formally exist: What is life like in a country marked by war, isolation and not recognized, with no or limited possibilities to travel abroad or having contact…
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Oskar Barnack Award 2010 slideshow | Leica News & Rumors
Link: Emerging photographer Claire Martin talks to BJP about her Inge Morath Award win and on making it in documentary photography at a time when funding is rare
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Alixandra Fazzina Wins $100,000 from UNHCR – PDN Pulse
Link: The book starts with Sasha, a kleptomaniac, who works for Bennie, a record executive, who is a protégé of Lou who seduced Jocelyn who was loved by Scotty who played guitar for the Flaming Dildos, a San Francisco punk band for which Bennie once played bass guitar (none too well), before marrying Stephanie who…
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Conscientious | Announcing: Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010
Link: I’m excited to announce the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010, the second of its kind (after a great start last year). As before, the winner(s) will have their work featured here on this website, in the form of an extended conversation/interview. This year, two guest judges, Elisabeth Biondi (New Yorker magazine) and Susanna Brown (Victoria…
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Five Photojournalists Win Getty Images' Latest Grants
Link: This year’s winners are: Stefano De Luigi of Italy for “TIA – This is Africa”; Miquel Dewever-Plana of France for “The Other War”; Edwin Koo of Singapore for “Paradise Lost: Pakistan’s Swat Valley”; Darcy Padilla of San Francisco, for “The Julie Project”; and Jerome Sessini of France, for “So Far from God, Too Close…
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NPPA Endorses Artists Bill Of Rights For Photography Contests
Link: Nikon has announced the Speedlight SB-700, a new shoe-mount flash unit that incorporates a revised control layout, 24-120mm zoom range, recycle time of 2.5 seconds at full power, the ability to act as a master flash for up to two groups of wireless remote Speedlight
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Winners announced: Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2010
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com The top award winners for 2010 are: Portfolio Category Grand Prize: Jessica Hines 2nd Prize: Carolle Benitah 3rd Prize: Louisa Marie Summer Single Image Category Grand Prize: Martine Fougeron 2nd Prize: Albertina d’Urso 3rd Prize: Anne Berry
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It's Mystery Photo Contest Time! – A Picture's Worth
Link: How many photo contests did you get emailed about today? Some photo contests take themselves a little too seriously. This isn’t one of them.
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Magnum Expression Award: 20 Finalists Announced – A Picture's Worth
Link: the finalists: Sohrab Hura Julian Roeder Rasel Chowdhury Patryk Karbowski Nicolas Wormull Nathanael Turner Lucia Herrero Jiri Makovec Jenn Ackerman Rob Hornstra David Walter Banks Linda Forsell Irina Rozovsky Yvonne Venegas Cedric Van Turtleboom Bepi Ghiotti Arthur Bondar Anastasia Taylor-Lind Alfonso Moral
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65th College Photographer of the Year | Blog
Link: Due to technical difficulties with the audio recording, there will be no screencast for Sports Action. However, the problem was fixed and the Sports Feature, Spot News and General News screencasts from Monday were posted.
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Revamped NPPA Student Quarterly Clip Contest Opens Next Week
Link: the newspaper industry is in crisis, and it’s unrealistic to expect that a staff photographer job is out there waiting for you — even if you’ve got the world’s best portfolio. Goals have changed – you have to take care of yourself. You’re still expected to make incredible pictures, but you also need to…
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Inside CPOY: In & Out with Leah Beane
Link: In a book, my favourite images are usually hidden. The books are all on their shelves. I don’t have books lying around, their images exposed (ever since one of the cats once threw up on an Alfred Steichen book [a possible sign that her taste is strictly contemporary, but I don’t want to overinterpret…
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Revamped NPPA Student Quarterly Clip Contest Opens Next Week
Link: The NPPA Student Clip Contest will be re-launching on Monday, November 15, with simplified online entry, multimedia categories, and live winners’ galleries on NPPA.org.
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PDN Pulse » Davide Monteleone Wins 2011 Aftermath Grant
Link: The Massive Dev Chart app combines the world’s largest film development database from Digitaltruth Photo with an advanced multi-step timer, creating what is probably the best tool ever made for film development.
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The Photo Follies 2010 Awards » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: Welcome to the Photo Follies 2010 Awards, the Premier Photo Industry Contest In This Universe Or Any Universe Yet To Be Discovered™. Entries were judged by a jury consisting of leading industry figures, including former deputy assistant night picture editors, photo agency interns and Flickr Pro members.
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Friendly contest deadline reminder – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
Link: There’s a lot of good work at the recently published 30Under30 Women Photographers online exhibition. The site showcases the diverse work of 30 young female photographers.