Photographers Laura Pannack and David Ryle have won the Getty Images Prestige Grants for 2016, Getty Images announced today. The grants, of $15,000 and $7,500, are given to photographers to help them to pursue “dream projects.”
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.
This year the annual contest received 270,000 submissions from photographers located in 150+ countries. These submissions were then whittled down by a jury that included the likes of Sarah Leen from National Geographic magazine, Michael Christopher Brown of Magnum Photos, and Lars Boering of World Press Photo. The 100 shortlisted images will be on display during the 2016 EyeEm Photography Festival in Berlin, where the overall winner will also be announced.
Magnum Photos and LensCulture are delighted to announce 44 remarkable photographers from around the world who have been chosen by our international jury for the first annual Magnum Photography Awards. Each of the selected works is presented in its entirety in this online exhibition — it’s a lot to see and absorb, but we believe each of these photographers has something special to offer.
Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2016 finalists revealed Twelve finalists selected in prestigious international photographic competition Leica Camera has announced that the twelve finalists in this year’s ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’ have been selected. Chosen by
Photographer Agnieszka Sosnowska lives on more than one square mile of feral Icelandic terrain, a landscape flecked with a thousand folktales, passed down from one generation to the next. According to legend, little houses lie unseen within the fissures of the native rocks, inside which the elves or Huldufólk— meaning “hidden people”— go about their secret, invisible lives. Sosnowska, who moved to the farm in eastern Iceland a decade ago, is herself a skeptic, but she can’t help but hear the whispers of some mysterious presence when she’s out there, alone with the wind and the gulls for company.
In the body of work, Svenson turned outward from his usual studio based practice to observe the daily activities of his downtown Manhattan neighbors as seen through his windows into theirs. The grid structure of the windows frame the quotidian activities of the neighbors into a highly aestheticized project of social anthropology. Voyeuristic and investigative, the body of work is a social documentation in a very rarified enviroment
This week and next, Lenscratch will be sharing the CENTER Award winners and the statements by the jurors to help understand their choices. Congratulations to Megan E. Doherty for winning the Project Development Award. Megan is a documentary photographer b
Congratulations to Megan E. Doherty for winning the Project Development Award. Megan is a documentary photographer based in Chicago, IL. She received her PhD in the philosophy of religions from the University of Chicago. In November, her work will be part of The Curve exhibition at photo-eye Gallery, as part of the CENTER grant. Her work also garnered a place in Critical Mass Top 50, and will be part of the Critical Mass exhibition this June at Łódź Fotofestiwal, Poland.
five photographers were awarded. In the single image category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Sergey Ponomarev (European Refugees), Christophe Archambult (Southeast Asia Migrant Crisis) and Damir Sagolj (North Korea Workers Party Anniversary). Two awards of excellence were given to Chen Jie (Fukushima Under Radiation) et Santi Palacios (Coming Ashore).
In the category “Sports News” of the 12th edition of CHIPP (China International Press Photo Contest), four photographers were awarded. In the single image category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Sascha Fromm (Caught in the Nest), Daria Isaeva (Unlucky Champion) et David Ramos (Iron Man). One awardsof excellence were given to Matthias Schrader (Judging).
In the category stories of « Sports News » of the 12th edition of CHIPP (China International Press Photo Contest), four photographers were awarded. In the single image category, the first three prizes “Gold”, “Silver” and “Bronze” were awarded respectively to Simon Moricz-Sabjan (Street extreme exercises), Kirill Kudryavtsev (Dark Snow) and Alexey Filippov (Opposition). One award of excellence were given to Li Ga (The 53rd Table Tennis World Championship).
“Our jobs have become more dangerous and harder to come as our profession faces economic and technological change,” says Marcus Mabry, president of the Overseas Press Club of America and the managing editor of Twitter Moments. “We gather tonight not to bemoan this reality, but to confront it. Our role as journalists is to bear witness, and ensure that suffering is not in silence, injustice is not unknown.”
As the Second Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards draw to a close, we are thrilled to announce our five winners, selected from about one thousand exemplary submissions from around the world. This year, our esteemed jurors collectively awarded
As the Second Annual Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards draw to a close, we are thrilled to announce our five winners, selected from about one thousand exemplary submissions from around the world. This year, our esteemed jurors collectively awarded the prize to photographers Mariya Kozhanova, Marlena Waldthausen, Camille Michel, Kimberly Witham and Lissa Rivera.
In the category stories of « Nature & Environment News » 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 Lucy Nicholson (California Drought from Above), Mauricio Lima (Munduruku Daily Life) and Mahdi Barchian (When Hope Dries up. Two awards of excellence were given to Giles Clarke (The Recyclers of Port-Au-Prince) and Hossein Fatemi (Should I Stay Or Should I Go).
In the summer of 2011, McNair Evans took a train from Raleigh, North Carolina, where he’d been visiting his girlfriend, to Richmond, Virginia, for a friend’s wedding. The experience was a transformative one.
Angelos Tzortzinis has spent the last 5 years, focusing his work on the immigration issue in Greece, traveling across the Greek land and sea borders but also documenting the immigrants’ lives in Athens and their efforts to leave a country undergoing a severe economic crisis. Tzortzinis work have been published and exhibited internationally
