Category: Contests
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Emerging Photographer Grant 2011 – Call for Entries | burn magazine
Link: We are now receiving submissions for a BURN grant of $15,000. Deadline for entry is May 1, 2011
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Some thoughts on iPhone pictures and POYi | dvafoto
Link: Damon Winters’ iPhone-taken story, A Grunt’s Life, was awarded 3rd place Feature Story in the 2011 Pictures of the Year International. This has been met with controversy. Many, including most prominently Chip Litherland, say the pictures aren’t photojournalism and that they don’t represent what was in front of the camera, others, such as Logan…
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King of Spain Prize Daniel Aguilar | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: Mexican photojournalist Daniel Aguilar has won the Prize for Photography in the 2011 King of Spain International Journalism Prize, for an image taken in Haiti after the devasting earthquake last year.
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World Press Photo’s Afghan War » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: It used to be you won an award and people would say nice things, at least to your face; now it’s an excuse for a mob to take to the Internet and vilify you. In the week since Jodi Bieber’s portrait of Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman disfigured by her family – who…
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Daniel Morel reacts to World Press Photo wins – British Journal of Photography
Link: Freelance photographer Daniel Morel, who has found himself in the middle of a legal fight after his images of last year’s Haiti earthquake were distributed by Agence France Presse without authorisation, won two World Press Photo awards
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Mitch Epstein Wins the Prix Pictet Photography Prize
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ On Thursday, Prix Pictet named Mitch Epstein’s American Power, a stunning series on fossil fuels and renewable energy use in the U.S. this year’s winner of the group’s third photography prize for environmental sustainability. The theme of this year’s competition was growth, which…
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Two weeks to go for Street Photo Awards deadline
Link: The awards are divided into two categories – the Student Award and the International Award.
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If you are a student, apply for Luceo's grant
Link: I too am developing a real love / hate relationship with this camera. There’s so much to enjoy, yet also so much to frustrate one.
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2011 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship
Link: I was ecstatic to find out that I am the recipient of the Houston Center for Photography’s 2011 Juried Fellowship for my ongoing Sun City: Life After Life essay. My talented colleague Matt Eich won the same honor in 2010 for his “Carry Me Ohio” essay.
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Competition: The photographs of the year
Link: The APPPF (Agency for the Promotion of Professional Photography in France) has organized the third edition of the photographic prize called “Photographs of the Year”. A competition reserved for European professional photographers meant to promote their know-how.
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But is it photography?
Link: Would it make sense to rebrand the Deutsche Börse Prize as a conceptual photography prize given the variety of photographers shortlisted over the past years? You decide
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The Pulitzer Prizes
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
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Winners announced in Sony World Photography Awards
Link: While Argentinian Alejandro Chaskielberg won the top prize at the Sony World Photography Awards, more than 30 photographers have received commendations in 13 professional categories
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Agnes Dherbeys Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Link: ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. Winner: AGNES DHERBEYS Freelance for The New York Times – “Violence Erupts in Thailand” THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD – Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books. Winner: LYNSEY ADDARIO, National Geographic – “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”…
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Rodrigo Abd, Feature Photography Award
Link: The Feature Photography Award for “best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme” was given to Rodrigo Abd of Associated Press for his story on an emergency room in Guatemala.
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Lynsey Addario – Olivier Rebbot Award
Link: The Olivier Rebbot Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books” was given to Lynsey Addario for her National Geographic story “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”.
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In Tender Moments, a War's High Cost
In Tender Moments, a War’s High Cost Marcus Yam and Philippe Brault win the first-ever World Press Photo multimedia awards. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/in-tender-moments-a-wars-high-cost/ Many poignant ways have been found to express the cost of wartime deployment on the families left behind. Few have affected me as immediately as a moment in “The Home Front”…
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World Press Photo releases iPad app of winning images
Link: It costs $4.99. Right now, the app has the 350 winning images and an interactive map of locations of the pictures, in addition to captions, photographer biographies and camera information (which seems like a weird thing to include).
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Damon Winter, Michael Holahan, Picked As Best Of Photojournalism Contest's Photojournalists Of The Y
Judges have picked the winners: Damon WInter of The New York Times is the 2011 Best Of Photojournali
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EPF 2011 Winner – Irina Werning's Back to the Future
EPF 2011 Winner Emerging Photographer Fund – 2011 Recipient [slidepress gallery=’irinawerning_backtothefuture’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICI… via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2011/06/epf-2011-winner/ I love old photos. I know I’m a nosy photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for those old photos. Most…