Brent Stirton wins 6th annual National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer award
this guy is the real deal. He’s someone who goes all-out to show the ragged edge between man and nature, on the battle lines where habitat is lost or preserved
Category: Contests
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Brent Stirton wins 6th annual National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer award – The Photo Society
Brent Stirton wins 6th annual National Geographic Photographer’s Photographer award
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Call for Entries – Your Best of 2015
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Here is a look at Dakar 2016 in progress, as teams race to Rosario, Argentina, on January 16.
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Documentary Photographers: Contest Deadlines Approaching Fast
Documentary Photographers: Contest Deadlines Approaching Fast | PDNPulse
Winter is the height of the photojournalism contest season, and entry deadlines are fast approaching for a number of international competitions. Among them are: The World Press Photo entry deadline is January 13, although entrants must register by January
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/01/documentary-photographers-contest-deadlines-approaching-fast.html
Jeffrey Milstein’s ‘Parks and Recreation’ series explores sites of leisure and enjoyment in the U.S., captured from a helicopter
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Worth a read: Disphotic on photo contests that cost money | dvafoto
Worth a read: Disphotic on photo contests that cost money
Calling paid-entry photo contest the “cash cow” of photography, Lewis Bush raises a lot of valid points.
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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 kept at the National Archives of Canada
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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 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 pool and selected the following ten photographers to receive $1,000 “to start, further or finish a project, or to help alleviate a financial hardship.”
A hearty congratulations and Happy Holidays to all the winners
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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 PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/12/nina-berman-wins-2016-aftermath-grant-for-project-on-wars-toxic-legacy.html
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
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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 McCurry—the ceremony reflected photography’s broad reach as well as its import. Indeed, the Lucie Awards provide the photo industry with its own version of Oscars, Emmys, or Tonys
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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 in Humanistic Photography for “The Geography of Poverty,” a project he started in California’s Central Valley where, after giving up his job as a newspaper photographer in the mid-1990s, he spent two decades documenting farming, migration and poverty.
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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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Winners and Finalists GuatePhoto 2015 – The Eye of Photography
Winners and Finalists GuatePhoto 2015
The International Photography Festival GuatePhoto 2015 celebrates its third edition. Antigua and Guatemala will welcome from November 12th to the 30th an event dedicated to contemporary photographic creation; gathering the talent of established and emergent artists, critics, cultural agents, institutions and the general public. The winners of PhotoBook Award and Portfolio Award are Verónica Fieiras and Lam Pok Yin Jeff & Chong Ng.
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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
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 Lange and writer Paul Taylor, supports long-term documentary work that combines images and words to tell a story.
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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)
