Category: Contests
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New! The 2016 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests | PhotoShelter Blog
New! The 2016 Photographer’s Guide to Photo Contests – PhotoShelter Blog 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,…
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Who Wins in Photo Contests? – The New York Times
Who Wins in Photo Contests? As photographers and editors cull the previous year’s work in preparation for major contests, several reflect on what competitions can and cannot do. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/who-wins-in-photo-contests/ To further a discussion about the role of contests, Lens asked several photographers and contest administrators for their thoughts.
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World Press Photo Releases Code of Ethics | TIME
World Press Photo Introduces New Code of Ethics The photojournalism contest unveils a new set of standards for visual journalism. via Time: https://time.com/4125893/world-press-photo/ The world’s most respected photojournalism contest unveils a new set of standards for visual journalism.
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World Press Photo Introduces New Ethics Guidelines for Contest – The New York Times
World Press Photo Introduces New Ethics Guidelines for Contest 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. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/world-press-photo-introduces-new-ethics-guidelines-for-contest/ The new rules also include an independent fact-checking process for the captions of winning photos and a 36-hour…
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After Staged-Photo Debacle, World Press Changes Rules
Link: In support of that code, the new rules define illegal manipulation as “staging or re-enacting events” and “adding or removing content from the image.”
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Images From the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards – The Atlantic
Images From the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards 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. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/11/images-from-the-2016-sony-world-photography-awards/417783/ The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards are now taking entries, and the organizers have been kind enough…
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This Photographer (& Her Copyright) Is About to Pay It Forward | PhotoShelter Blog
This Photographer (& Her Copyright) Is About to Pay It Forward – PhotoShelter Blog 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…
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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…
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Fund Your Work: Manuel Ortiz Foundation Seeking Projects for $5,000 Documentary Grant
Link: 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.
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The Best Street Photographer In San Francisco 2015: Troy Holden — Vantage — Medium
The Best Street Photographer In San Francisco 2015: Troy Holden A man with boundless energy, decisive moments and big community-spirit via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/the-best-street-photographer-in-san-francisco-2015-troy-holden-52f24a0512de Determining “Best” is a subjective act, but if relentless energy, decisive moments and community-spirit are factors then Troy Holden is on the podium
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HSBC Prize for Photography 2016 : Interview with Marta Zgierska – The Eye of Photography
Link: 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.
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AP Photographers Honored with Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Awards | AP Images Blog
Link: 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 …”.
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PDN’s 30 2015 : New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
Link: 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…
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China : 12th CHIPP, Daily Life Category (Stories) – The Eye of Photography
Link: 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…
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China : 12th CHIPP, War & Conflict Category (Stories) – The Eye of Photography
Link: In the category stories of “War & Conflict” of the 12th edition of CHIPP (China International Press Photo Contest), five photographers were awarded. In the single image category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Jerome Delay (Burundi Unrest), Kemal Jufri (Children of The Crisis) and Andrew Burton (Baltimore Uprising). Two awards of excellence were…
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1st Prize Daily Life : Espen Rasmussen – The Eye of Photography
Link: Town like Beckley and Mullens does not have many other sources of income. Drugs, pills, alcohol and violence is dominant many places, and young people are struggling to find work, forcing many to move
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Overseas Press Club Photo Awards – The New York Times
Overseas Press Club Photo Awards A Syrian freelance photographer covering the conflict in his homeland for Reuters took the top award in this year’s Overseas Press Club contest. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/overseas-press-club-photo-awards/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 Bassam Khabieh, a Syrian freelance photographer covering the conflict in his homeland for Thompson Reuters, has won the Robert Capa gold medal from…
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Magnum Photos and LensCulture Team Up for Major New Photography Award | Fotografia Magazine
Link: In sight of celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2017, Magnum Photos has teamed up with photography platform LensCulture to create a major new photography competition – the Magnum Photography Awards. Magnum and LensCulture are now inviting photographers from all over the world to show their work (entries close next 24 May) to the top professionals sitting on…
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Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner tells stories of people on the fringe | Berkeley News
Dorothea Lange Fellowship winner tells stories of people on the fringe For first-year journalism student Clara Mokri, ‘human stories are what drives the news’ via Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/09/dorothea-lange-fellowship-winner-tells-stories-of-people-on-the-fringe/ Growing up the daughter of a prominent Hollywood cinematographer, Clara Mokri remembers being on movie sets with her father and seeing the power a camera could wield…