Category: Contests
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Call for Entries: FotoEvidence Book Award | American Photo
Link: Looking back on the remarkable social documentary work they’ve supported through the years
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Bulent Kilic, from Taksim to Kobane – Correspondent
Correspondent via Correspondent: https://correspondent.afp.com/ “You know, for years, you go on assignments, on missions. You are away for weeks, months. Sometimes you have no shower, no sleep, no food. Sometimes you risk your life. It’s good to know that someone recognises that, recognises the work.”
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A very politically correct winner – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Boring. Blaaaaah. That is the first word that comes to mind when looking at the winner of the World Press Award, circa 2015. Don’t get me wrong, this year’s committee, led by Michele McNally, probably the best photo editor of our generation, was full of talent. But it was just that, a committee. And time…
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The Photography Show 2015 – 30 Under 30
The Photography & Video Show 2024 The show that brings photography, film and content creation to life. via The Photography Show 2024: http://www.photographyshow.com/Content/30-Under-30/5_47/ Chosen from a shortlist of 60, which itself had been whittled down from 664 entrants, the standard of images from the winning 30 has shown that there is a collection of extremely…
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Smithsonian Magazine’s 2014 Photo Contest – The Atlantic
Smithsonian Magazine’s 2014 Photo Contest The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the finalists in their 12th annual photo contest, selected from more than 26,500 entries. They've kindly allowed me to share several of these images here. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/03/smithsonian-magazines-2014-photo-contest/387385/ The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the finalists in their 12th…
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CHIPP 2015 Le World Press Chinois : Results – The Eye of Photography
Link: The following is drawn from the Jon Ronson’s foreword to the book “Playground,” by James Mollison, which is out April 30th from Aperture.
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Ryuichi Ishikawa: Winner of the Prix Kimura Ihei – The Eye of Photography
Link: A Hasselblad dangling from his neck, Ishikawa captures portraits from his daily life: the marginalized, the poor, the homeless, drug addicts, transexuals. They occupy the lowest rung in a deeply hierarchical society.
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PDN’s 30 2015 : New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
Link: As you read through our 16th annual PDN ’s 30 feature, you’ll notice these photographers shared some of the “Key Lessons” they’ve learned, “Best Advice” they’ve received and “Biggest Challenges” they’ve overcome. These footnotes to the photographers’ stories are honest, insightful, sometimes funny and, we hope, useful to photographers at all stages of their…
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The 76th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards – The Eye of Photography
Link: The 22 award-winning entries for the annual Overseas Press Club Awards depict a world in which entire nations and millions of people have been torn apart by newly intensified forces of nationalism, extremism, disease and environmental degradation. Al Jazeera America, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times won multiple awards. The Robert Capa…
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The Best Latin American Photography – NYTimes.com
The Best Latin American Photography Mauricio Lima took top honors in Pictures of the Year Latin America, which highlights work done around the world by photographers from Latin America. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/the-best-latin-american-photography/ Mauricio Lima of Brazil has been named Photographer of the Year in the third Pictures of the Year Latin America contest. Daniele…
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French Photographer Wins 2015 Remi Ochlik Award | TIME
French Photographer Wins 2015’s Remi Ochlik Award Edouard Elias won for his work on the Foreign Legion in Central African Republic via Time: https://time.com/3935680/french-foreign-legion-edouard-elias/ Named after a photographer who was killed in a rocket attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, the Rémi Ochlik Award is given each year to a young photojournalist who has produced…
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Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 – Finalists’ Portfolios « The Leica Camera
Link: The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 received thousands of entries from photographers all over the world. This video shows the portfolios of the award winners and finalists
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Pascal Maitre : Lifetime Achievement Visa d’or Award 2015 – The Eye of Photography
Link: The laureate is Pascal Maitre (1955), french photographer from Cosmos agency
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Alfred Fried Award : Peace Photo of the Year 2015 title goes to Patricia Willocq – The Eye of Photography
Link: The Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015, worth 10 000 euros, goes to 34-year old Brussels-based photographer Patricia Willocq. The award was first established in 2013 by Österreichische Photographische Gesellschaft and Edition Lammerhuber. The belgian photographer wins Alfred Fried Photography Award 2015 with visions of a better Africa / Keynote by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi.
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Matt Black Awarded 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant | American Photo
Link: Photographer Matt Black has been awarded the 2015 W. Eugene Smith grant for his long-term documentary project The Geography of Poverty. Black started the project nearly two decades ago in California’s Central Valley, where he grew up, and in 2014 set out on a cross-country trek to document poverty across America. He utilized Instagram…
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Photoforward | The Lucie Awards Recap: International Photographer of the Year Has a Tie, and Presentations by Ann Curry, Graham Nash and Fran Drescher
The Lucie Awards Recap: International Photographer of the Year Has a Tie, and Presentations by Ann Curry, Graham Nash and Fran Drescher The 13th annual Lucie Awards (known in the industry as the “Oscars of Photography”) was held last night, October 27, in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, and got underway with “a first,” according to Susan Baraz,…
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2015 National Geographic Photo Contest, Part II – The Atlantic
2015 National Geographic Photo Contest, Part II National Geographic Magazine’s annual photo contest is still open, but the deadline for submissions coming up on November 16, 2015. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/11/2015-national-geographic-photo-contest-part-ii/414040/ National Geographic Magazine’s annual photo contest is still underway, with the deadline for submissions coming up soon—on November 16, 2015. The Grand Prize Winner…
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Shortlist Announced for Prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize | TIME
Shortlist Announced for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Laura El-Tantawy, Erik Kessels, Trevor Paglen and Tobias Zielony are shortlisted via Time: https://time.com/4101538/deutsche-borse-photography-prize/ Themes of mass surveillance and African refugees surface among four photographers shortlisted for one of the industry’s top photography prizes
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Angelos Tzortzinis: TIME Picks the Best Wire Photographer of 2015 | TIME
Angelos Tzortzinis is TIME’s Best Wire Photographer of 2015 His documentation of Greece’s economic and refugee crises has been stellar via Time: https://time.com/4098158/angelos-tzortzinis-wire-photographer-2015-time/ His documentation of Greece’s economic and refugee crises has been stellar
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Keeping the flame of photojournalism alive, the Ian Parry Scholarship exhibits winning images | British Journal of Photography
Keeping the flame of photojournalism alive, the Ian Parry Scholarship exhibits winning images – 1854 Photography Launched in 1991, the Ian Parry Scholarship is an annual photographic competition for young photographers under the age of 24 or attending a full-time photographic course. Announced in July, this year’s winner Yuyang Liu, hailing from China, submitted a…