1st Prize Candid : Kirstin Schmitt
Waiting for the Candymen is study of Cuban idiosyncrasy; an allegory of waiting: Waiting the right moment, waiting for tomorrow, waiting for something or someone who brings redemption maybe
Category: Contests
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1st Prize Candid : Kirstin Schmitt – The Eye of Photography
1st Prize Candid : Kirstin Schmitt
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1st Prize Campaign : Jetmir Idrizi – The Eye of Photography
1st Prize Campaign : Jetmir Idrizi
TransBrasil is an ongoing project, which aims to deepen gender identities issues from documentary photography perspective
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1st Prize Contemporary Issues and L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year : Asghar Khamseh – The Eye of Photography
1st Prize Contemporary Issues and L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year : Asghar Khamseh
The awards’ Honorary Judging Committee has selected Iranian photojournalist Asghar Khamseh as the recipient of its most coveted prize, the L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year
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Gallery: 2016 Sony World Photography Award Winners | American Photo
Gallery: 2016 Sony World Photography Award Winners
Prize-winning documentary and fine art photographs from across the globe
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How the Industrialization of the Amazon Is Transforming Brazil | TIME
How the Industrialization of the Amazon Is Transforming Brazil
Aaron Vincent Elkaim’s long-term project won the Alexia Foundation Grant 2016
via Time: http://time.com/4076696/amazon-brazil-belo-monte/
Aaron Vincent Elkaim’s long-term project won the Alexia Foundation Grant 2016
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Sony World Photography Awards Winners Revealed | TIME
These Are the World’s Best Photographs
Grand prize winners are announced at the Sony World Photography Awards
via Time: http://time.com/4299522/sony-world-photography-awards-winners-revealed/
Grand prize winners are announced at the world’s largest photography competition
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The 2016 Imagely Fund Open For Entry | NPPA
The 2016 Imagely Fund Open For Entry
The 2016 Imagely Fund competition is now open for entry.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/2016-imagely-fund-open-entry
The fund offers a $5,000 grant to a photographer to help fund one humanitarian or environmental photography project each grant cycle. Their goal is to provide support for projects that will have a tangible and positive impact on the world.
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Pulitzer Prize In Breaking News Photography Goes to Coverage of Refugee Crisis | American Photo
Pulitzer Prize In Breaking News Photography Goes to Coverage of Refugee Crisis
“We are incredibly proud of the team for its outstanding work covering this historic and emotional journey,” Stephen J. Adler, editor-in-chief of Reuters, said in a press release. “The migrant crisis has been cast as a test of unity for Europe. While it is certainly that, it is also the desperate flight from war and danger by more than a million individuals. The team depicted that flight with humanity and respect of the highest order.”
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Bryan Denton Awarded the 2016 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award | American Photo
Bryan Denton Awarded the 2016 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award
Photojournalist calls the award a “bittersweet motivation to keep pushing my work forward”
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Winner of Pulitzer Prize Feature Photography: Strider Wolf – The Boston Globe
Pulitzer Prize Feature Photography winner: Strider Wolf – The Boston Globe
Globe staff photographer Jessica Rinaldi won the Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her compelling depiction of a boy living in poverty in Maine.
via BostonGlobe.com: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2016/04/18/winner-pulitzer-prize-feature-photography-strider-wolf/uwzY0ncftt9uO50Ay5MaEO/story.html
Globe staff photographer Jessica Rinaldi won the Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her compelling depiction of a boy living in poverty in Maine.
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Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis – The New York Times
Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis
The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis. Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe won the feature photography prize for her story of a boy who endured abuse at the h
The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis. The Times’s team was comprised of Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter. This is the newspaper’s fourth photo Pulitzer in the past three years.
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Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Reports From the Front Lines – The New York Times
Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Reports From the Front Lines
Ms. Rubin has spent much of her career covering Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/business/media/alissa-rubin-pulitzer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
A foreign correspondent for nearly three decades, Alissa Rubin is known for descending deep into some of the world’s scariest conflicts and returning with rare, often poignant glimpses into the plights of soldiers, survivors and victims.
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2016 Photography Pulitzer Winners Accounced
2016 Photography Pulitzer Winners Accounced
Two photo teams have won for Breaking News Photography this year—both for coverage of the refugee crisis. The Feature Photography prize went to Jessica Rinaldi.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/2016-photography-pulitzer-goes.html
Two photo teams have won Pulitzer Prizes for Breaking News Photography this year: one prize went to Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times and the second went to the photography staff of Thompson Reuters. The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography went to Jessica Rinaldi of The Boston Globe. The prizes were announced this afternoon at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
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Looking back at the Post’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer – The Washington Post
Looking back at the Post’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, In Sight is looking back on the first Washington Post photographer to win the prize.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/18/looking-back-at-the-posts-first-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer/
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, In Sight is looking back on the first Washington Post photographer to win the prize. Matthew Lewis, now 86, earned the Pulitzer for feature photography in 1975. Lewis won with a portfolio of mostly color photographs that appeared in The Post Magazine.
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Who will win the Pulitzer Prizes today? A survey of the most impressive journalism from 2015 – Poynter
Who will win the Pulitzer Prizes today? A survey of the most impressive journalism from 2015 – Poynter
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.
The favorites are based on what’s been honored by other press contests in the weeks leading up to Pulitzers — the most revered of U.S. awards and the oldest, celebrating their centennial this year. I’ll also focus on the reporting-based categories — for the most part setting aside photojournalism, commentary, criticism and editorial writing and cartooning
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How Winning Three Pulitzers Changed William Snyder’s Career
How Winning Three Pulitzers Changed William Snyder’s Career | PDNPulse
William Snyder describes his second Pulitzer Prize as a crowning glory, but there’s another prize that always eluded him—and it bugs him to no end.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/winning-three-pulitzers-changed-william-snyders-career.html
You don’t rest on your laurels. You’ve got to keep working, day in and day out.
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Bryan Denton Wins Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award
Bryan Denton Wins Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award
American photojournalist Bryan Denton has won the fifth annual $20,000 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/bryan-denton-wins-fifth-annual-getty-images-chris-hondros-fund-award.html
“I was lucky enough to have been friends with Chris, which makes this accolade a bittersweet motivation to keep pushing my work forward, and to do so with the kindness, grace and spirit that Chris embodied both in his work and in life,” Denton said in a prepared statement.
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How Winning a Pulitzer Changed Deanne Fitzmaurice’s Career
How Winning a Pulitzer Changed Deanne Fitzmaurice’s Career | PDNPulse
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners will be announced on Monday, April 18, marking the 100th awarding of the prizes since they were initiated in 1917. We recently asked photojournalist Deanne Fitzmaurice how winning the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for feature photogr
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/04/how-winning-a-pulitzer-changed-deanne-fitzmaurices-career.html
When you win, your phone is going to start ringing like crazy, your inbox is going to fill up and there are going to be lots of opportunities to to go out and talk about your work and your process. It’s easy for it to become a distraction. After I won, I spent the following year doing speaking engagements and other things related to that project. It was a great honor and privilege, but then I felt like: enough talking, just start producing some work.
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Motivated by the Spirit of Chris Hondros – The New York Times
Motivated by the Spirit of Chris Hondros
Covering the chaos of the Libyan civil war in 2011 transformed Bryan Denton. He began the war as a promising 27-year-old photojournalist and provided some of the most vivid coverage of the conflict for The New York Times. But it’s not his personal successes that stick with Mr. Denton — it’s the victims he photographed, and the deaths of several colleagues, especially his friend Chris Hondros.
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$30,000 Up For Grabs in W. Eugene Smith Fund | TIME
$30,000 Up For Grabs in W. Eugene Smith Fund
Applications for the 2016 Humanistic Photography Grant are open until May 31
via Time: http://time.com/4294312/w-eugene-smith-fund/
Applications for the 2016 Humanistic Photography Grant are open until May 31