Category: Contests
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Ted Grant, father of Canadian photojournalism, receives Order of Canada – British Columbia – CBC News
Victoria’s Ted Grant appointed to the Order of Canada for remarkable photography | CBC News “I just love doing what I’ve done for all these years. I react, I go, ‘Oh my God, look at that,’ and the camera goes click,” says Grant, 86. via CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/order-of-canada-given-to-ted-grant-1.3386351 Grant, 86, responsible for thousands of images currently…
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Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest – The Atlantic
Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Photo Contest National Geographic Magazine just announce the winners of this year’s photo contest. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/winners-of-the-2015-national-geographic-photo-contest/422118/ Gathered below are the winning images from the People, Nature, and Places categories, as well as honorable mentions, with captions written by the individual photographers
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2015 Value Your Work Grant Winners | PhotoShelter Blog
2015 Value Your Work Grant Winners – PhotoShelter Blog Last month, we reported on a new $10,000 grant program started by photojournalist Yunghi Kim with earnings she made from copyright infringement of her photographs. Kim and Contact Press Images Executive Director Jeffrey Smith combed through the applicant via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/12/2015-value-your-work-grant-winners/ Last month, we reported on…
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Nina Berman Wins 2016 Aftermath Grant For Project on War’s Toxic Legacy
Nina Berman Wins 2016 Aftermath Grant For Project on War’s Toxic Legacy | PDNPulse Nina Berman has won the 2016 Aftermath Project Grant for “Acknowledgment of Danger,” a look at the “toxic legacy of war on the American landscape.” Berman, a documentary photographer, has published two books: Purple Hearts—Back from Iraq (2004), on wounde via…
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AP Photographers Honored with Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Awards | AP Images Blog
AP Photographers Honored with Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Awards The Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar announced results this week for its annual photo contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
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Valérie Belin Wins Sixth Prix Pictet Prize | American Photo
Valérie Belin Wins Sixth Prix Pictet Prize Today at Paris Photo Valérie Belin was announced as the winner of the sixth annual Prix Pictet $100,000 USD prize. Her winning series, Still Life, examines our fascination with cheap and disposable objects that we seem to compulsively collect.
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See Photographs From the 2015 Lucie Award Winners | American Photo
See Photographs From the 2015 Lucie Award Winners The most remarkable feature Tuesday evening was the sheer variety on display—in both imagery (the wall-sized slideshows were dazzling) and larger-than-life personalities. With honorees ranging from artistic maverick Danny Lyon to fashion shooter Roxanne Lowit—and with presenters including rocker Graham Nash, newswoman Ann Curry, and photographer Steve…
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The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert – The Eye of Photography
The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert
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W. Eugene Smith Grants Honor Humanistic Photography – The New York Times
W. Eugene Smith Grants Honor Humanistic Photography In the tradition of W. Eugene Smith, the winners of this year’s prizes have devoted themselves to documenting poverty in the United States, sexual assault in the military and the crisis of a failed state. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/w-eugene-smith-grants-honor-humanistic-photography/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Matt Black received this year’s W. Eugene Smith Grant…
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Matt Black Wins the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography | TIME
Matt Black Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography And Mary F. Calvert and Marcus Bleasdale share the Smith Fund Fellowship via Time: http://time.com/4073718/eugene-smith-2015-matt-black/ Mary F. Calvert and Marcus Bleasdale share the Smith Fund Fellowship
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2015 National Geographic Photo Contest – The Atlantic
2015 National Geographic Photo Contest National Geographic Magazine has opened its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 16, 2015. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/10/2015-national-geographic-photo-contest/409174/ The kind folks at National Geographic were once again kind enough to let me choose among the contest entries so far for display here
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Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ of $625,000 | TIME
Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier Wins MacArthur Genius Grant “It’s validation to my work being a testimony and a fight for social justice.” via Time: http://time.com/4054550/photographer-latoya-ruby-frazier-wins-macarthur-genius-grant-of-625000/ “It’s validation to my work being a testimony and a fight for social justice and cultural change.”
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Porter Yates Wins EyeEm Photographer Of The Year Award — Vantage — Medium
Porter Yates Wins EyeEm Photographer Of The Year Award Plus the ten other winners in the 2015 EyeEm photo competition via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/ai-ap-pro-photo-daily-honor-roll-winners-of-the-2015-eyeem-photo-competition-92be2b3b2c45 Porter Yates is EyeEm Photographer of the Year
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$10K Lange–Taylor Prize Goes to Michel Huneault for Project About Oil Train Disaster
$10K Lange–Taylor Prize Goes to Michel Huneault for Project About Oil Train Disaster | PDNPulse Huneault was recognized for his project documenting the aftermath of an oil train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people in a small Quebec town. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/09/10k-lange-taylor-prize-goes-to-michel-huneault-for-project-about-oil-train-disaster.html The award, named in honor of the partnership between documentary photographer Dorothea…
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Winners of Prix La Quatrième Image 2015 – The Eye of Photography
Winners of Prix La Quatrième Image 2015 The awards of the international photographic competition La Quatrième Image 2015 were given to Maxim Dondyuk (1st prize), Mathilde Geldhof (2nd prize), Michael Goldgruber (3rd Prize) and Gillian Hyland (4th prize)
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APAD blog
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 This year, one of the highlights of GeekFest…
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Getty and Instagram Announce Winners of $10K Grants For Underreported Stories
Getty and Instagram Announce Winners of $10K Grants For Underreported Stories | PDNPulse Getty Images and Instagram have announced the winners of the first Getty Images Instagram Grant recognizing photographers for telling underreported stories. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/09/getty-and-instagram-announce-winners-of-10k-grants-for-underreported-stories.html This is John Vink’s first of an 11 part project concerning the wide-ranging subject of rice in Cambodia.…
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Newsha Tavakolian Wins €100K Cultural Prize; Pledges to €45K to Help Refugees, Charities in Iran
Newsha Tavakolian Wins €100K Cultural Prize; Pledges to €45K to Help Refugees, Charities in Iran | PDNPulse Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian will receive the 2015 Principal Prince Claus Award, a 100,000 Euro prize. She has pledged nearly half to charity. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/09/newsha-tavakolian-wins-e100k-cultural-prize-pledges-to-e45k-to-help-refugees-charities-in-iran.html “Unfortunately it is hard for me to enjoy this prize as much…
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Arthus-Bertrand Visa d’or awards 2015 : News and Feature – The Eye of Photography
Arthus-Bertrand Visa d’or awards 2015 : News and Feature The 2015 Arthus-Bertrand Visa d’or awards go to the best reportages published between September 2014 and August 2015. Laureates are Daniel Berehulak with The Ebola Epidemic for The Visa d’or Feature , and Bülent Kiliç for the Visa d’or awards for news reporting with Syrian Refugees at the Turkish…