Category: Contests

Grants Fellowships and Contests for Photographers

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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 Geographic Magazine.

January 10, 2020
Winners Announced for the 2013 World Press Photo Multimedia Contest

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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.

January 10, 2020
Sony World Photography Awards Shortlist

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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!

January 10, 2020
2013 LUCEO Student Project Award Announced

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We are excited to announce the 4th annual LUCEO Student Project Award. We have great things planned for the students entering this year

January 10, 2020
Michele Palazzi wins Environmental Photographer of the Year Award

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Italian photographer Michele Palazzi has been named the 2013 winner of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management’s Environmental Photographer of the Year Award for an image shot in the Gob desert of Mongolia

January 10, 2020
CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat

CENTER AWARDS: Gallerist’s Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat – LENSCRATCH

CENTER’s Gallerist’s Choice Juror, Lauren Panzo is the Director at Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York. Lauren selected Bryan Schtmaat to recieved the 1st place Award for his evocative project, Grays the Mountain Sends. Tomorrow we will feature 2nd and 3rd place winners Brandon Thibodeaux and Donna J. Wan. Lauren shared these comments about the juroring: There were many

via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/04/center-awards-gallerists-choice-awards/

This project combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in a series of photos that explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West. Equipped with a large format view camera, and inspired by the poetry of Richard Hugo, I’ve aimed to hint at narratives and relay the experiences of strangers met in settings that spur my own emotions

January 10, 2020
Javier Manzano first freelance photographer to win Pulitzer in 17 years

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“To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no outside support.”

January 10, 2020
Pulitzer Prizes 2013: Winners announced

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This is a list of various resources dedicated to educating photographers about Lightroom 5 public beta

January 10, 2020
A Tribute to David Goldblatt, ICP’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Honoree

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Now imagine a photograph by David Goldblatt. Thought so. Unless you’re a fellow South African or one of his fans, you probably drew a blank. He’s one of the world’s most honored living photographers, a man who is greatly respected and, yet, is little known. It’s a paradox.

January 10, 2020
Fabio Bucciarelli: Gold Medal Robert Capa Award

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Fabio Bucciarelli has been awarded, in the space of two days, two of the world’s most prestigious photojournalism prizes: the World Press Photo (second place in the Spot News category), whose awards ceremony was held in Amsterdam from April 25 to 27, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal

January 10, 2020
Prix Pierre & Alexandra Boulat: Arnaud Bach

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The Grant Pierre & Alexandra Boulat 2013, supported by Canon France of 8 000 euros and given to a professional photo-journalist in order to allow him or her to produce a story for which he could not find support , has been given to Arnau Bach, a spanish photographer who presented a remarkable work in black and white on the Paris suburbs.

January 10, 2020
Olivier Jobard wins 2013 Tim Hetherington Grant

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French photographer Olivier Jobard has won the third annual Tim Hetherington Grant for his work “Dream of a Rain of Perfume”

January 10, 2020
NatGeo Awards New Talent At Eddie Adams Workshop

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As part of the workshop, National Geographic awards $1,000 prizes to two young photographers who show outstanding promise in their careers. This year the winners were Tommaso Protti and Ciril Jazbec.

January 10, 2020
GIFShooter 2013 Competition

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The Worldwide Competition for GIFs in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

January 10, 2020
LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

LensCulture Exposure Awards 2013

Discover the six top winners and 25 finalists of the 5th annual international photo competition – amazing, diverse, inspiring.

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/2013-lensculture-exposure-award-winners

Nine international jurors reviewed over 10,000 photographs submitted by photographers in 62 countries. The competition was open to all genres of photography and all perspectives. Here are the amazingly diverse and inspiring winning entries.

January 10, 2020
Josh Haner – Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Awarded to Josh Haner of The New York Times for his moving essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost most of both legs and now is painfully rebuilding his life.

January 10, 2020
Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas

Recognizing Outstanding Photojournalism Overseas

The Overseas Press Club has honored several photographers for their coverage of conflicts that have spanned decades, or almost escaped attention.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/recognizing-outstanding-photojournalism-overseas/

In an interview today, Mr. Hicks spoke of the many great war photographers who have won the Robert Capa gold medal, including David Douglas Duncan, Larry Burrows, W. Eugene Smith, Eddie Adams and Carolyn Cole.

January 10, 2020
Ilona Szwarc Arnold Newman Prize 2014 – The Eye of Photography

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Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture has again been awarded to Ilona Szwarc.

January 10, 2020
Viviane Dalles Wins the Canon Female Photojournalist Award – The Eye of Photography

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The Canon Female Photojournalist Award has just been awarded to the 36-year old French photographer Viviane Dalles

January 10, 2020
Newsha Tavakolian versus Carmignac – The Eye of Photography

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Today I am announcing that due to irreconcilable differences over the presentation of my work, I am returning the cash award and stepping down as the winner of the Carmignac Gestion Award for photojournalism 2014, canceling all my cooperation with this foundation and its patron, the French investment banker Edouard Carmignac.

January 10, 2020