The $10,000 grant, created by the Chris Hondros Fund, will go to ProPublica
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The new grant, worth $10,000, is dedicated to the defense of press freedom in the U.S. and will fund two to three stories produced by the non-profit news organization ProPublica.
TIME Exclusive: Sarah Blesener, Brian Frank and Tomas van Houtryve each won $30,000
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Photographers Sarah Blesener, Brian Frank and Tomas van Houtryve are the winners of the first CatchLight Fellowship. Each will receive $30,000 to complete a project that promotes social good.
The project for which he receives the ICP Infinity Award—Libyan Sugar (2016)— explores ethical distance and the iconography of warfare while using a phone camera. A book on the series was released in 2016 by Twin Palms Publishers; a lm and a mixed media installation will complete the project
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition offers a complex portrayal of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention practices in the war on terror and the process of investigating them
The Luminous Endowment Grant Winners – April 2017 We are delighted to announce the Winners of the first series of Luminous Endowment Grants for 2017. Once again, the standard of submissions was very high and we received more entries than ever before from
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We are delighted to announce the Winners of the first series of Luminous Endowment Grants for 2017.
Stephanie Sinclair has won the $20,000 2017 Courage in Photojournalism award for her work which focuses on gender and human rights around the world.
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Polish-Greek photographer Louisa Gouliamaki and American photographer Nicole Tung received honorable mentions
Blesener’s series documents the patriotic clubs, education and summer camps in Russia, and has won the $20K Alexia Foundation Professional Grant for 2017.
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New York-based photographer Sarah Blesener has won the $20,000 Professional Grant from the Alexia Foundation for her series “Toy Soldiers,“ which documents youth patriotic clubs, education and summer camps in Russia.
Daniel Berehulak’s gripping coverage in The New York Times of state-sanctioned killings in the Philippines and E. Jason Wambsgans’s chronicling for the Chicago Tribune of a 10-year-old gunshot victim’s recovery were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking
Daniel Berehulak was awarded the Pulitzer Prize – his second – for breaking news photography for his coverage in the New York Times of the brutal antidrug campaign by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a story that chronicled the recovery of a 10-year old boy who was the victim of a shooting.
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Link: http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/daniel-berehulak-freelance-photographer
For powerful storytelling through images published in The New York Times showing the callous disregard for human life in the Philippines brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users. (Moved into this category from Feature Photography by the nominating jury.)
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Link: http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/e-jason-wambsgans
For a superb portrayal of a 10-year-old boy and his mother striving to put the boy’s life back together after he survived a shooting in Chicago.
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.
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Winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. The annual prizes, which mark the best in journalism from the year, have evolved over time to include digital and magazine journalism.
Jonathan Bachman, All About Photo Second Place Winner Yesterday we featured the First Place Winner of the 2017 All About Photo Awards. Today we celebrate the other winners with an eye towards what it takes for a single image to catch the eye of jurors. Ea
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Yesterday we featured the First Place Winner of the 2017 All About Photo Awards. Today we celebrate the other winners with an eye towards what it takes for a single image to catch the eye of jurors. Each of these images tell powerful stories within a single frame, from meaningful documentary images, to poignant portraits, to human stories that show us the world in new ways.
Mary F. Calvert, Maggie Steber and Zoe Strauss are among the 12 photographers who have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2017, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 7. The Fellowships provide grants of undisclosed amounts to sup
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Mary F. Calvert, Maggie Steber and Zoe Strauss are among the 12 photographers who have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2017
Romain Mader (1988, Switzerland) is the winner of the eleventh Foam Paul Huf Award 2017. This annual prize, given to a photography talent under 35 years old, consists of €20.000 and an exhibition at Foam Museum. The jury chose Romain Mader from a pool of 100 nominated photographers, from 25 countries worldwide. Mader wins the prize for his series Ekaterina, a narrative in which he seeks a bride in the imaginary city of Ekaterina.
10 photographers will split the $80,000 available
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This year’s selection of grantees are Mari Bastashevski, Marko Drobnjakovic, Carlo Gabuco , Daniel Castro Garcia, Eduardo Hirose, Nneka Iwunna, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Musuk Nolte, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Faiham Ebna Sharif
Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev share the prestigious award for courage in photo reporting about the fight in Iraq against ISIS.
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The two photojournalists shared the award for their coverage of fighting in Iraq to reclaim territory from ISIS. The work of both photographers was published by The New York Times
Take a look at one of the two Best Series selected by Francesca Genovese as the winners of our ‘Family’ call.
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Platforms seek total control even as they abdicate responsibility. In other words, they’re perfect.
From coverage of state-sanctioned killings of drug users in the Philippines to in-depth reports on Venezuela’s economic and social collapse, The New York Times swept the Overseas Press Club’s photography awards.
Recognizing “exceptional courage and enterprise,” the Overseas Press Club awarded its Robert Capa gold medal to Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev of The New York Times for their coverage of the fight against ISIS and its aftermath.
Belgian photographer Kevin Faingnaert has won the 2017 ZEISS Photography Award for his project, “Føroyar,” a series about life on remote and sparsely populated villages on the Faroe Islands (an archipelago located between Iceland and Norway in the North A
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Belgian photographer Kevin Faingnaert has won the 2017 ZEISS Photography Award for his project, “Føroyar,” a series about life on remote and sparsely populated villages on the Faroe Islands (an archipelago located between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean). The prize includes more than $3,100 US to complete the project. Faingnaert will also receive over $12,700 in lenses from ZEISS.