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 will receive $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters to participate in its annual photography seminar. The kind folks at National Geographic were once more kind enough to let me choose among the contest entries so far for a second display here
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 portfolio of images documenting the lives of people suffering with mental illness from Guangdong Province. Hosam…
The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film is accepting proposals for their $5,000 grants for a documentary photo project and a short documentary film. The deadline to enter is March 31, 2016.
The 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards winners were announced in Paris, with Daniel Mayrit receiving the $10,000 top prize for First PhotoBook. Other winners included Diane Dufour and Xavier Barral, Thomas Mailaender and Will Steacy.
For the third year running, we’re excited to release The 2016 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests. We’ve partnered up with the World Photography Organisation to give you a fresh look at more than 35 photo contests worldwide. Get insights on which contests we recommend, a rundown of fees, promised exposure and prizes, plus feedback from…
We’ve partnered up with the World Photography Organisation to give you a fresh look at more than 35 photo contests worldwide. Get insights on which contests we recommend, a rundown of fees, promised exposure and prizes, plus feedback from past winners.
After two years of controversy over images submitted to the World Press Photo contest, the organization has announced major changes to the competition’s rules.
The new rules also include an independent fact-checking process for the captions of winning photos and a 36-hour period for entrants whose images may have been unduly altered to explain their process.
The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards are now taking entries, and the organizers have been kind enough to share some of their early entries with us, gathered below. Last year’s competition attracted over 173,000 entries from 171 countries
Yunghi Kim, decorated photojournalist and 20 year member of Contact Press Images, is bringing more than turkey to Thanksgiving this year. In an email to me, she announced that she is donating $10,000 to create ten one-time grants of $1,000 with money that she has received “from fees recovered from unauthorized use of my work.”…
Yunghi Kim, decorated photojournalist and 20 year member of Contact Press Images, is bringing more than turkey to Thanksgiving this year. In an email to me, she announced that she is donating $10,000 to create ten one-time grants of $1,000 with money that she has received “from fees recovered from unauthorized use of my work.”
The 21st edition of the HSBC Prize for Photography,for which Diane Dufour is artistic advisor, was won by Marta Zgierska and Christian Vium. Marta is a young Polish photographer, 28 years old. For her entry, she presented her series Post created following a serious road accident that happened in 2013.
in the 16 years I’ve been arranging PDN’s 30 seminars, the media and the photo industry have changed so much, the career paths that past PDN’s 30 photographers described just seven or eight years ago now sound quaint. What I’ve appreciated about PDN’s 30 photographers is that they know the old industry models are gone, but they’ve figured out their own ingenious, enterprising ways to fund and share their work
Kennerly also wrote, “Chris can be faulted for using an expletive when the agent tried to block him from taking a photo, but their training definitely doesn’t teach them to assault people for something they said – at least it didn’t used to …”.
In the category “Daily Life” of the 12th edition of CHIPP (China International Press Photo Contest), five photographers were awarded. In the stories category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Minzayar (The Price of Jade), Sadegh Souri (Waiting Girls) and Felipe Dana (Faces of Crackland). Two awards of excellence were given to Fan Yulei (Electric Bicycles with potential risk) et Kin Cheung (No Place to Die).
Bassam Khabieh, a Syrian freelance photographer covering the conflict in his homeland for Thompson Reuters, has won the Robert Capa gold medal from the Overseas Press Club. The award, for the “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise,” was given to Mr. Khabieh for his dramatic photographs of a field hospital in Douma, a Damascus suburb.
