Category: Contests
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Reactions to Samuel Aranda’s World Press Photo-winning image
Link: The winners of World Press Photo 2012 were announced on Friday, and while no awards went to anything as controversial as an iPhone or Google Street View series, there have been varied reactions to Samuel Aranda’s winning image of a woman in a niqab comforting an injured man in Yemen
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Alex Prager wins Foam Paul Huf Award
Link: US photographer Alex Prager has won this year’s Foam Paul Huf Award. She will receive a €20,000 grant and her work will be the subject of an exhibition in Amsterdam
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Video: 34 Award-winning photographers & multimedia makers
Link: A 22-minute presentation of the winners of the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2011 — some of the best in global photography and multimedia today.
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Photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind wins Center’s Project award
Link: VII Photo member Anastasia Taylor-Lind has won the Project Award 2012, organised by Center, a non-profit photographic organisation in Santa Fe
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Washington Post, WSJ opted against Pulitzer-winning image
Link: Massoud Hossaini’s photos of the carnage following a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kabul were so powerful that The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all published them on their front pages on December 7. But each ran different images from the same scene.
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Winners of Visa de l’ANI 2011
Link: The final selection included JP Lopez ’ reportage on starving children in Guatemala, Colin Delfosse on military sites in Kazakhstan, and Misha Freidman on the tuberculosis epidemic in former Soviet states. Their work will be exhibited at the Bar Floréal in Paris in September 2012.
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Ladies and gentlemen, here are this year’s Pulitzer winners
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/04/16/ladies-and-gentlemen-here-are-this-years-pulitzer-winners/ – Breaking News Photography: Massoud Hossaini, Agence France-Presse – Feature Photography: Craig F. Walker, Denver Post | Story
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The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner: Massoud Hossaini
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ Columbia University has announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners—and they include Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing took the title in the category of breaking news photography.
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Carmignac Gestion Foundation offers €50,000 grant in Photojournalism Award
Link: The Carmignac Gestion Foundation is calling for entries for its annual Photojournalism Award, which comes with a €50,000 grant for the production of a photography project
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Paolo Marchetti: Documenting the rise of fascism in Europe
Link: Paolo Marchetti is one of the four recipients of this year’s Getty Images Editorial Grants. He’s won $20,000 to continue his series Fever, which looks at the “tremendous growth” of the fascist movement in Europe. He speaks with BJP
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Photographers from Central Eurasia to Document Human Rights Issues in Their Home Region
Photographers from Central Eurasia to Document Human Rights Issues in Their Home Region The Open Society Documentary Photography Project announces winners of the 2012 Production Grant to Individual Photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan. Link: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/photographers-central-eurasia-document-human-rights-issues-their-home-region The 2012 grantees are: Fraidoon Poya (Afghanistan); Fardin Waezi (Afghanistan); Arthur Lumen Gevorgyan (Armenia);…
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Luc Delahaye : Prix Pictet 2012
Link: The 4th Prix Pictet was awarded on Tuesday, October 9, to the French photographer Luc Delahaye. The winner was chosen for his ten pictures on the theme of “Power,” which continue the excellent work he has done over the past decade
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Prix Bayeux 2012 Ed Ou
Link: Barely 26 years old, Ed Ou is one of the most promising members of Reportage by Getty Images. He just received the ‘Young Reporter’ prize at the 19th edition of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents
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All photographs are flukes: the problem with photography competitions
Link: In rewarding one picture, we are congratulating a photographer on merely one ‘fluke’ they have experienced, on one single effort they may have exerted to produce one image, that is questionable as to how much input was given from other people, and that in itself gives no indication as to whether the person really…
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Photojournalism Contest Entry Flowchart
Link: “Fishing comes a lot easier to me than photography,” Mr. Arnold said. “The mental stress of trying to be creative all the time is pretty taxing. Fishing is massive physical stress. But being a captain, running a boat and making it all work — it just comes to me instantly.”
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Grants Fellowships and Contests for Photographers
Link: NPPA’s most prestigious honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, has been presented this year to two of the industry’s most likable and significant trailblazers, longtime photojournalist Charles W. “Chick” Harrity, retired from U.S. News & World Report Magazine, and Dennis Dimick, the executive environment editor and the interim director of photography for National…
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Winners Announced for the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest
Link: The winner of the short was Pep Bonet from Noor Images and the online feature Stephanie Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock from VII Photo Agency. Both contain striking still images woven together with reasonable video. The emphasis is clearly on the photography rather than the video.
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Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist
Link: The jury for the World Photography Organisation announced 44 shortlisted photographers today for the Sony World Photography Awards 2013. These were selected from over 122,000 entries this year. Lens Culture is pleased to present a high-resolution slideshow of all of the finalists. Enjoy!
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2013 LUCEO Student Project Award Announced
Link: We are excited to announce the 4th annual LUCEO Student Project Award. We have great things planned for the students entering this year