Category: Contests
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Getty Images announces Grants for Good winners
Link: Photographers Alex Masi and Gwenn Dubourthoumieu have won this year’s Grants for Good, which will see them receive $15,000 each for the production of new imagery to support non-profit organisations of their choosing
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Landscape first for Ian Parry Scholarship
Link: A series of desaturated landscape images shot by Bangladeshi Rasel Chowdhury has won this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship, a first for the prestigious photojournalism and documentary photography prize
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Announcing: Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2011
Link: I’m excited to announce the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2011, the third of its kind. As before, the winner(s) will have their work featured here on this website, in the form of an extended conversation/interview. Two guest judges, Caroline von Courten (Foam Magazine) and Michael Mazzeo (Michael Mazzeo Gallery), are joining me to pick the…
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Photojournalism award launched in tribute to fallen photographer
Link: The family of Lucas Dolega, a French photographer who was killed in Tunisia on 17 January, has launched a new prize dedicated to photojournalists
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Call For Entries – 66th College Photographer of the Year – Due Sept. 28th
Link: Entry is free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. and promises to easier than ever now that the photographer friendly online entry system CPOY debuted last year has been fine-tuned.
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College Photographer Of The Year, Call For Entries
CPOY The College Photographer of the Year Competition was founded by Cliff and Vi Edom in 1945. The University of Missouri administers the contest with continuing support from its co-sponsor, Nikon Inc., whose generosity allows CPOY to offer free entry to college students worldwide. Link: https://cpoy.org Entry is free, courtesy of Nikon Inc. and promises…
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WHNPA Announces Education Grant Winner: Allison Shelley
Link: Allison Shelley, freelance photographer, has been chosen as the recipient of the White House News Photographers 2011 Project Grant. The grant of $10,000, half from the WHNPA and a matching amount of $5,000 from PNY Technologies Inc., will fund her project to examine and raise awareness on the health implications of adolescent childbearing in…
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Mobile Photography Awards
Link: The Mobile Photo Awards were founded to promote and harness the global phenomenon of mobile, or cell- phone, photography and art. The awards are committed to presenting the art-form in galleries and exhibits and are designed to celebrate and bring more attention to the creatives working in the medium.
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Winning photographs & multimedia: Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography Discover and share the best in contemporary photography via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com We’re pleased to announce the winners of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011 – the best in global photography and multimedia. The nine top winners and 25 honorable mention winners represent work from 14 countries.
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New festival to offer grants to photographers
Link: A new photography festival is offering up to €150,000 to photographers and photojournalists to finance new projects
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Watch out for rights grabs – National Geographic My Montana contest and TurnHere
Link: National Geographic’s My Montana contest features a pretty standard rights grab. It’s particularly sad to see National Geographic taking advantage of photographers in this way, especially since the organization has been so supportive of photography and photographers since the beginning of the craft
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Entries now being accepted for World Press Photo 2012
Link: Single pictures shot in 2011 are eligible, as are picture stories that were finished or first published in this year. The deadline to register is January 6, 2012, while all submissions must be made by January 12, 2012. Winners will be announced on February 10, 2012.
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Now Open For Entries: NPPA’s 2012 Best Of Photojournalism Competition
Link: The deadline for the Best Of Television Photojournalism contest is January 27, and the Best Of Still Photography, Photojournalism Editing, and Web Photojournalism contests’ deadline is February 3.
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Announcing the 2011 Portfolio Prize Finalists
Miklós Klaus Rózsa | Aperture Shortlisted for Aperture’s First Photobook Award 2014 This publication draws on the documents compiled by the photographer and political activist Miklós Klaus Rózsa (1954) from 1971 to 1989, consisting of an assortment of photographs taken by Rózsa as wel via Aperture: http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=13739 Thanks to all the photographers who took part…
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Greenfield Wins Sundance Director Prize
Link: Lauren Greenfield won the prize for best director of a US documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for her film, “The Queen of Versailles.”
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Samuel Aranda’s Photo From Yemen Wins the Photo of the Year
A Painterly World Press Photo Winner Samuel Aranda had to slip into Yemen carefully as he covered last year’s unrest. His patience was rewarded today when one of his images was chosen Photo of the Year by World Press Photo. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/a-painterly-world-press-photo-winner/?pagewanted=all “I got back to my place and I saw the photo…
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World Press Photo: A judge’s top tips for future entrants
Link: Photojournalist Patrick Baz was one of the judges in this year’s World Press Photo. With authorisation from the organisers, he took to Twitter to give unprecedented insights into the judging. BJP selects some of his best tweets.
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World Press Photo Winners 2012
Link: Lens Culture is pleased to present the winning photos here. Our high-resolution slideshow of the winning images shows the most detail.
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Emotionless
Link: The new crop of world press winners is out and as in every year many reflections come to mind. Reminiscent of Eugene Smith’s Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath , the winning image, from Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda lacks all the required W’s that makes a great news photograph. By looking at it, you have…