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, finalists and top-rated photographers will enjoy gain access to an unprecedented level of global exposure and recognition from two of the largest organisations in the photo industry, as well as cash funding and career support.
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, 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
Judges picked Al Bello of Getty Images as the 2016 Sports Photojournalist of the Year. It should be noted that photographers from Getty Images accomplished a total sweep of the category, from first place to honorable mentions. The runner-up in this category is Patrick Smith of Getty Images, and third place is Matthias Hangst of Getty Images. Honorable mentions were awarded to Cameron Spencer of Getty Images AsiaPac, and to David Ramos of Getty Images.
Photographer Eli Durst has won the 2016 Aperture Portfolio Prize for his series “In Asmara.” The prize, which includes $3,000 and an exhibition at Aperture Gallery in New York, is intended to identify trends in contemporary photography and highlight artis
“In Asmara” documents Durst’s time visiting the capital city of East African country Eritrea. The city is renowned for its large collection of intact modernist buildings, however, Durst’s series documents the life going on around the buildings—a trash dump, a table set for dinner, the backseat of a car.
Smithsonian magazine has just announced the winning entries in their 13th annual photo contest, selected from more than 46,000 entries sent in from 168 countries. They’ve shared the Grand Prize winner here, as well as the winning shots from the competition’s six categories: The Natural World, Travel, People, The American Experience, Altered Images, and Mobile
For years, I’ve been hoping to do more with APhotoADay. Since 2000, it’s been an incredible listserv. A source of honest critique. A place for conversation and questions. A safe forum for figuring…
APhotoADay’s inaugural Backyard Storytelling Grant is a $4,000 grant awarded to a visual storyteller to aid in a project within 350 miles (or roughly one tank of gas) of the journalist’s home. Our goal is to reward and encourage finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, while also focusing on community. Often time the best stories – the ones that resonate most – are the ones that hit closest to home.
South African photog Gideon Mendel has won the inaugural Pollock Prize for Creativity. He has spent the last 9 years capturing the impact of climate change.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which safeguards the artistic legacies of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, initiated the Pollock Prize to support outstanding mid-career artists working in painting, sculpture, works on paper and printmaking, or photography.
Antonio Aragón Renuncio of Spain has won the $120,000 grand prize in the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) competition in Dubai. The theme of the competition was “Happiness.” Aragón won the prize for an image of happy kids chasing motorcycle t
The theme of the competition was “Happiness.” Aragón won the prize for an image of happy kids chasing motorcycle tires outside of an NGO clinic in Togo. Winners were announced yesterday at a ceremony in Dubai.
the announcement of the winner of the 1st edition of the International Photography Prize: Santu Mofokeng, from South Africa, to whom the exhibit “A Silent Solitude. Photographs 1982-2011” at the Foro Boario (March 6th-May 8th 2016) has been dedicated.
This year, out of 174 finalists, a slightly lower 16% of all final entries were disqualified, seven were disqualified for cloning issues and 22 for extreme processing
“There are so many important local stories and issues that often get overshadowed in competitions by the big global news events,” said Rick Shaw, director of POYi. “We wanted to recognize great photo stories produced in photographers’ own backyards.”
Andrew Ellis of MediaStorm has won Multimedia Photographer of the Year honors at the 73rd anual Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition, while National Geographic has won Documentary Project of the Year and the Angus McDougall Overall Excell
It takes time to change old edifices, whether that change be a restoration to a former glory or a gradual crumbling to dust. World Press Photo currently seems to currently be undergoing something o…
It takes time to change old edifices, whether that change be a restoration to a former glory or a gradual crumbling to dust. World Press Photo currently seems to currently be undergoing something of a transformation, but it is yet unclear how far this change will go, and to what extent it will either rejuvenate or reduce the organisation’s relevance to photojournalism
“I’ve come to hate writing captions. I don’t like telling people how to read an image,” Stacy Kranitz writes in—where else?—a caption on her Instagram…
“I’ve come to hate writing captions. I don’t like telling people how to read an image,” Stacy Kranitz writes in—where else?—a caption on her Instagram account, which, in December, Time named the best of 2015.
The Sony World Photography Awards, an annual competition hosted by the World Photography Organisation, just announced its shortlist of winners for 2016.
The Sony World Photography Awards, an annual competition hosted by the World Photography Organisation, just announced its shortlist of winners for 2016
Photographer Paolo Marchetti has won Reportage Photographer of the Year in the 73rd annual Picture of the Year International competition. His portfolio, selected as the winner over the weekend, includes stories about exploited and abused children around t
From the look of the winners, it seems clear that the artistry that is on display brings us closer not only to the world as it is, but also to the world as it is unfolding from past to present to future
