As photo contest season descends upon us, the perennial question re-emerges: Do we need photo contests? In the consumer photo world, contests function largely as a user engagement tool. An amateur photographer who wins a prize like the National Geographic
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/01/do-we-need-photo-contests/
As photo contest season descends upon us, the perennial question re-emerges: Do we need photo contests?
The following organizations are now accepting applications for grants, fellowships and juried exhibitions that support photographers.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/01/fund-work-upcoming-grant-fellowship-juried-competition-deadlines-early-2017.html
Get 2017 rolling in the right direction by applying for a grant or submitting your work to a juried exhibition. The following organizations are now accepting applications:
Veteran war photographer Don McCullin is awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.
via BBC News: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-38466795
Veteran war photographer Don McCullin has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.
Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/16476.html
The 2016 recipients are:
Frank Fournier, Carol Guzy, Amnon Gutman, Derek Hudson, Dania Maxwell, Myriam Meloni, Jackie Molloy, Rick Rocamora, Ann Wang, Rony Zakaria
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: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2016/12/the-year-in-selfies-2016/
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. If the selfie represents the ultimate declaration of “pics or it didn’t happen,” here’s the proof that it’s “happening” in our crazy world.
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 sent to the Guardian picture desk this year. The overall winner will be announced on 21 December
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 late 1900’s.
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 a series of images, and the judges will make a range of awards, with recognition for work in social documentary, personal documentary, alternative imaging, innovative presentation, amongst others, always looking for the unexpected.”
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 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 manipulated images – dubbed “creative documentary photography” – in support of contemporary storytelling.
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 as she thanked the Lucie Foundation for the award, and vowed to savor the honor “forever.”
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.
“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 turned a certain age with a zero in it, I decided to get a life,” Hunt said. “Photography gave me one.”
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.
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
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.
Justyna Mielnikiewicz, who taught herself photography by studying the legendary photo essays of W. Eugene Smith, has been awarded the W. Eugene Smith Fund’s 2016 grant in humanistic photography. She was recognized for her portrait of modern Russia as seen by Russians who have become ethnic minorities in former Soviet republics.
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
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.
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 title as the category winner for Playground.
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 will receive a 10-day trip for two to the Galapagos Islands. The kind folks at National Geographic were once more kind enough to let me choose among the contest entries so far for display here. The captions below were written by the individual photographers.