Category: Contests

  • The Year in Selfies 2016 | PhotoShelter Blog

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    The Year in Selfies 2016 – PhotoShelter Blog For the third year in a row, we bring you an annual recap of selfies around the world. In this election year, “ballot” selfies and politician selfies were a dominant theme, and in a tragic non-surprise, the world saw an increase in selfie-related deaths. via PhotoShelter Blog:…

  • Photographer of the year – 2016 shortlist: Trump, refugees and the battle for Mosul | Media | The Guardian

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    Photographer of the year – 2016 shortlist: Trump, refugees and the battle for Mosul Here are some of the best images that agency photographers sent to the Guardian picture desk this year. The overall winner will be announced on 21 December via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2016/dec/09/agency-photographer-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-trump-refugees-and-the-battle-for-mosul Here are some of the best images that agency photographers…

  • Poor, Larson and Shindelman Win $10K John Gutmann Fellowship

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    Poor, Larson and Shindelman Win $10K John Gutmann Fellowship Nigel Poor and photography collaborators Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman have each won $5,000 ($10,000 total) as part of the Photography Fellowship. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/11/poor-larson-and-shindelman-win-10k-john-gutmann-photography-fellowship.html The award honors the late John Gutmann, a Bay Area photographer who captured everyday scenes of American life during the mid to…

  • 12 Photographers Selected as Finalists for Prix Pictet | TIME

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    12 Photographers Selected as Finalists for Prix Pictet The award comes with a $100,000 cash prize via Time: http://time.com/4562962/12-photographers-selected-as-finalists-for-prix-pictet/ The works of Mandy Barker, Saskia Groneberg, Beate Guetschow, Rinko Kawauchi, Benny Lam, Richard Mosse, Wasif Munem, Sohei Nishino, Sergey Ponomarev, Thomas Ruff, Pavel Wolberg and Michael Wolf will be featured in an exhibition opening at…

  • World Press to Allow Staged, Manipulated Photos in New Contest

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    World Press to Allow Staged, Manipulated Photos in New Contest World Press Photo has announced a new contest for “creative documentary photography,” without rules limiting how images are produced. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/world-press-allow-staged-manipulated-photos-new-contest.html “This contest will not have rules limiting how images are produced,” the announcement says. “Entries can be single images or stories consisting of…

  • The Perils of “Creative Documentary Photography” | PhotoShelter Blog

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    The Perils of “Creative Documentary Photography” – PhotoShelter Blog Eyebrows were raised in the photojournalism community yesterday when World Press Photo  – an industry stalwart – announced the creation of a new contest that would “not have rules limiting how images are produced.” The contest would allow staged and manip via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/10/the-perils-of-creative-documentary-photography/ Eyebrows were…

  • Lucie Awards Honor 102-Year-Old Trailblazer, Tsuneko Sasamoto | PDNPulse

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    Lucie Awards Honor 102-Year-Old Trailblazer, Tsuneko Sasamoto | PDNPulse Tsuneko Sasamoto, born 1914, won the Lifetime Achievement Award and said she would save the honor “forever.” via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/lucie-awards-honor-102-year-old-trailblazer-tsuneko-sasamoto.html Seated at her desk in Tokyo, and speaking in Japanese, Sasamoto showed the energy that has fueled her long, and continuing, professional career. She smiled radiantly…

  • A New World Press Photo Contest Is Coming (Without All the Rules) | TIME

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    A New World Press Photo Contest Is Coming (Without All the Rules) The new contest is part of the organization’s expanding purview via Time: http://time.com/4545075/world-press-photo-new-contest/ World Press Photo will launch a new contest aimed at “creative documentary photography” that will do away with the stringent rules it applies to its flagship photojournalism contest.

  • See Photographs From the 2016 Lucie Award Winners | American Photo

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    See Photographs From the 2016 Lucie Award Winners “Welcome to the 14th annual running of the Lucies,” said W.M. Hunt at the outset of the 2016 Lucie Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on October 23. As emcee, the famed photo collector and curator brought a tone of levity to the evening. “When I…

  • Souvid Datta Wins $5K 2016 Visura Photojournalism Grant

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    Souvid Datta Wins $5K 2016 Visura Photojournalism Grant Indian Photographer Souvid Datta received the $5,000 Visura Photojournalism grant for his project “Vanishing Girls of West Bengal.” via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/souvid-datta-wins-5k-2016-visura-photojournalism-grant.html The project explores child sex trafficking and the socio-economic conditions that perpetuate it, as well as the challenges that NGOs face in tackling the issue.

  • Polish Photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant | TIME

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    Polish Photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant Her photos bring to life a region still in disarray, 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union via Time: http://time.com/4528611/polish-photographer-justyna-mielnikiewicz-wins-w-eugene-smith-grant/ Her photos bring to life a region still in disarray, nearly 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union

  • Awarding a Photographer’s ‘Stubbornness’ – The New York Times

    Awarding a Photographer’s ‘Stubbornness’ – The New York Times

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    Awarding a Photographer’s ‘Stubbornness’ Justyna Mielnikiewicz, who taught herself photography by studying the legendary photo essays of W. Eugene Smith, won the Smith Fund’s 2016 grant in humanistic photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/awarding-a-photographers-stubbornness/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 Justyna Mielnikiewicz, who taught herself photography by studying the legendary photo essays of W. Eugene Smith, has been awarded the W. Eugene…

  • Nikon Small World 2016 – The Atlantic

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    Nikon Small World 2016 Unranked images from the the 2016 Small World Photomicrography Competition. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/10/nikon-small-world-2016/504005/ Nikon will be announcing the winners of the 2016 Small World Photomicrography Competition on October 19. As a preview of the announcement, they’ve shared some of the unranked images from this year’s competition with us here

  • 2016 Eddie Adams Workshop Award Winners Announced

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    2016 Eddie Adams Workshop Award Winners Announced Here’s the list of award winners announced at this year’s four-day Eddie Adams Workshop for student and emerging professional photographers. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/16087.html Hilina Abebe of Ethopia, who received the Nikon Award, which includes a Nikon D5 DSLR, three NIKKOR zoom lenses and Speedlight flash.

  • Red Bull Announces Winners of 2016 Sports Photography Illume Contest | American Photo

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    Red Bull Announces Winners of 2016 Sports Photography Illume Contest German photographer Lorenz Holder walked away as the overall winner of the contest with a $40,000 EUR voucher to Yodoyashi, a Japanese camera retailer, for his image of a mountain biker passing over a bridge shortly after sunrise in Gablenz, Germany. He also snagged the…

  • 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year – The Atlantic

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    2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest National Geographic Magazine has opened its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 4. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/10/2016-national-geographic-nature-photographer-of-the-year-contest/502829/ National Geographic Magazine has opened its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 4. The Grand Prize Winner…

  • Laura Pannack and David Ryle Win “Dream Photo Project” Grants from Getty Images | PDNPulse

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    Laura Pannack and David Ryle Win “Dream Photo Project” Grants from Getty Images | PDNPulse Photographers Laura Pannack and David Ryle have won the Getty Images Prestige Grants for 2016, which carried awards of $15,000 and $7,500. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/09/laura-pannack-and-david-ryle-win-dream-photo-project-grants-from-getty-images.html Photographers Laura Pannack and David Ryle have won the Getty Images Prestige Grants for 2016,…

  • Alfonso Moral : Shadows of Tripoli – Laureate 2015 of Pierre & Alexandra Boulat prize – The Eye of Photography

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    Alfonso Moral : Shadows of Tripoli – Laureate 2015 of Pierre & Alexandra Boulat prize The project, “Shadows of Tripoli”, aims to show daily life in this divided city, and the constant problems faced by a population that is permanently threatened.

  • National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 – The Atlantic

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    National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Winners and honorable mentions from this year’s competition. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/08/national-geographic-travel-photographer-of-the-year-2016/494567/ Gathered here are all of this year’s winners and honorable mentions, captions written by the photographers

  • dvafoto’s Deadline Calendar – photo contests and calls for entry | dvafoto

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    dvafoto’s Deadline Calendar – photo contests and calls for entry