Category: Contests

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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”

  • 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…

  • Photography Pulitzer for Coverage of Refugee Crisis – The New York Times

    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 via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/photography-pulitzer-for-coverage-of-refugee-crisis/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0…

  • Alissa Rubin, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Reports From the Front Lines – The New York Times

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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 – 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…

  • 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

    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. via Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/2016/who-will-win-the-pulitzer-prizes-monday-a-survey-of-the-most-impressive-journalism-from-2015/407044/ The favorites are based on what’s been honored by…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • $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

  • New Competition : The Magnum Photography Awards 2016 in partnership with LensCulture

    New Competition : The Magnum Photography Awards 2016 in partnership with LensCulture Our distinguished jury will select 12 Winners and 20 Finalists from Documentary, Street, Portrait, Fine Art, Photojournalism and Open categories. In addition, the jury will select 7 photographers as “Jurors’ Picks” and give out 5 “Student Spotlight” awards to young, up-and-coming talents. Winners,…

  • Yangon Photo Awards 2016 : Minzayar Oo – The Eye of Photography

    Yangon Photo Awards 2016 : Minzayar Oo Minzayar Oo wins the First Prize of the Festival Yangon Photo 2016 in the professional category with his series « The Curse of Jade ».

  • Turkish photo journalists choose best photos of 2015 – Photo 1/30 – DS Gallery – Life

    Turkish photo journalists choose best photos of 2015 The Turkish Photojournalists Association (TFMD) announced the results of its 2016 photo contest on Monday. A total of 4,155 photos participated in the contest that was held for the 31st time, in which 30 photos and eight photo series received awards.

  • Daniel Berehulak, Scott McIntyre Win NPPA’s Photojournalists Of The Year | NPPA

    Daniel Berehulak, Scott McIntyre Win NPPA’s Photojournalists Of The Year Daniel Berehulak, shooting for The New York Times, was today named the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism 2016 Photojournalist of the Year (Large Markets), and Scott McIntyre of the Naples (FL) Daily News was selected as th via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/daniel-berehulak-scott-mcintyre-win-nppas-photojournalists-year Judges picked Al…