Category: Contests

  • Eli Durst Wins 2016 Aperture Portfolio Prize

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    Eli Durst Wins 2016 Aperture Portfolio Prize | PDNPulse 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 via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/03/eli-durst-awarded-2016-aperture-portfolio-prize.html “In Asmara” documents Durst’s time…

  • TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2016 Grantees | TIME

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    TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2016 Grantees A record $138,000 will be distributed to 18 photographers via Time: http://time.com/4268020/magnum-emergency-fund-2016/ The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund offers a total of $138,000 to 18 photographers exploring underreported issues

  • Winners of the Smithsonian Magazine’s 2015 Photo Contest – The Atlantic

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    Winners of the Smithsonian Magazine’s 2015 Photo Contest Smithsonian magazine has just announced the winning entries in their 13th annual photo contest. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/03/winners-of-the-smithsonian-magazines-2015-photo-contest/474912/ 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…

  • TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2016 Grantees | TIME

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    TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2016 Grantees A record $138,000 will be distributed to 18 photographers via Time: http://time.com/4268020/magnum-emergency-fund-2016/ The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund offers a total of $138,000 to 18 photographers exploring underreported issues

  • And the winner of the APAD Backyard Storytelling Grant is…

    And the winner of the APAD Backyard Storytelling Grant is…

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    And the winner of the APAD Backyard Storytelling Grant is… 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… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/129236655840/and-the-winner-of-the-apad-backyard-storytelling APhotoADay’s inaugural Backyard Storytelling Grant is a $4,000…

  • Gideon Mendel Wins $50,000 Pollock Prize

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    Gideon Mendel Wins $50,000 Pollock Prize 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. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/03/13800.html The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which safeguards the artistic legacies of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, initiated the Pollock Prize to support…

  • Aragón Renuncio Wins $120K Grand Prize in International Photo Contest

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    Aragón Renuncio Wins $120K Grand Prize in International Photo Contest | PDNPulse 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 via PDNPulse:…

  • Modena : Santu Mofokeng, International Photography Prize – The Eye of Photography

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    Modena : Santu Mofokeng, International Photography Prize 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.

  • World Press Photo Finds Fewer Manipulated Entries in This Year’s Photojournalism Contest | TIME

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    World Press Photo: Fewer Manipulated Entries in 2016 Awards Yet issues around heavy post-processing remain via Time: http://time.com/4243751/world-press-photo-manipulation/ 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

  • Winners of Pictures of the Year International – The New York Times

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    Winners of Pictures of the Year International “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, Casper Dalhoff, Stephen Dupont and National Geographic Win Top Awards in Late Round POYi Judging

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    Andrew Ellis, Casper Dalhoff, Stephen Dupont and National Geographic Win Top Awards in Late Round POYi Judging | PDNPulse 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…

  • Europe’s Vicarious Victimhood: World Press Photo 2015 – Disphotic

    Europe’s Vicarious Victimhood: World Press Photo 2015 – Disphotic

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    Europe’s Vicarious Victimhood: World Press Photo 2015 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… via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/europes-vicarious-victimhood-world-press-photo-2015/ It takes time to change old edifices, whether that change be…

  • Stacy Kranitz’s Instagram account is Time Magazine’s best of 2015.

    Stacy Kranitz’s Instagram account is Time Magazine’s best of 2015.

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    This Notable Instagram Account Embraces the Photographer’s Role in Documentary “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… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2016/02/24/stacy_kranitz_s_instagram_account_is_time_magazine_s_best_of_2015.html “I’ve come to hate writing captions. I don’t like telling people how to read an image,”…

  • The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards – The Atlantic

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    The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards The Sony World Photography Awards, an annual competition hosted by the World Photography Organisation, just announced its shortlist of winners for 2016. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/02/the-2016-sony-world-photography-awards/470574/ The Sony World Photography Awards, an annual competition hosted by the World Photography Organisation, just announced its shortlist of winners for 2016

  • Paolo Marchetti, Carolyn Van Houten and Al Bello Are Top POYi Winners So Far

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    Paolo Marchetti, Carolyn Van Houten and Al Bello Are Top POYi Winners So Far | PDNPulse 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 via…

  • Progress and Catastrophe at the World Press Photo Awards – Reading The Pictures

    Progress and Catastrophe at the World Press Photo Awards – Reading The Pictures

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    Progress and Catastrophe at the World Press Photo Awards – Reading The Pictures The award winners bring 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. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/02/world-press-past-future/ From the look of the winners, it seems…

  • Crystallisation or Simplification: World Press Photo 2015 – Disphotic

    Crystallisation or Simplification: World Press Photo 2015 – Disphotic

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    Crystallisation or Simplification: World Press Photo 2015 Warren Richardson has won the World Press Photo of the year for his photograph depicting refugees crossing a razor wire border fence as they travel deeper into Europe. This grainy, blurred image sh… via Disphotic: http://www.disphotic.com/crystallization-or-simplification-world-press-photo-2015/ Immediately noticeable is the blurring and camera noise evident in the photograph,…

  • Associated Press Withdraws Winning World Press Photo Entry | TIME

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    Associated Press Withdraws Winning World Press Photo Entry Daniel Ochoa de Olza’s photographs from Paris were entered by error, says the AP via Time: http://time.com/4231350/world-press-photo-associated-press/ The photographs in question were never distributed by the AP – our criteria for entering work in contests – because of our policy on reproducing photographs taken by others,” says…

  • On Warren Richardson’s 2015 World Press Photo of the Year

    On Warren Richardson’s 2015 World Press Photo of the Year

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    On Warren Richardson’s 2016 World Press Photo of the Year What I most admire in Richardson’s World Press winning photo is how much story it brings to the table. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/02/world-press-2015/ What I most admire in Richardson’s photo (one that, also true to the “Press” in World Press Photo, suggests the migrant crisis as the “visual…

  • Warren Richardson, winner of World Press Photo of the Year 2015 – The Eye of Photography

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    Warren Richardson, winner of World Press Photo of the Year 2015 members of the jury … spoke about the winning photograph