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…
This year, one of the highlights of GeekFest Oakland was getting to Skype with Washington D.C.-based freelance photographer Greg Kahn – the recipient of our first-ever grant. Even better, was that it was a total surprise.
Getty Images and Instagram have announced the winners of the first Getty Images Instagram Grant recognizing photographers for telling underreported stories.
This is John Vink’s first of an 11 part project concerning the wide-ranging subject of rice in Cambodia. His comprehensive exploration will address such issues as seasonal growing cycle, religion, research, tradition, commerce, social and economic impact, climate change issues and more.
Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian will receive the 2015 Principal Prince Claus Award, a 100,000 Euro prize. She has pledged nearly half to charity.
“Unfortunately it is hard for me to enjoy this prize as much as I would like to, seeing the region where I work and live in flames and tens of thousands seeking refuge in faraway lands,” the photographer said on her Facebook page, after the award was announced.
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 border
We’re pleased to announce that “Ten Disciples,” by Tsutomu Yamagata, is the winner of the 2015 Emerging Asian Photography Grant, a newly established award from the Emaho Foundation.
The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat grant 2015, endowed by the Scam, was awarded to Alfonso Moral. This means he will be able to pursue his “Shadows of Tripoli” project, a long-running series on the conflict raging between Sunnite and Alaouite communities in the district of Jabal Mohsen, turning it into a miniature Syria…
Magnum Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Magnum Photos, has announced the winners of a new fellowship supporting photographic projects that invite public participation. Magnum Foundation has partnered with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Co
Juan Arredondo of West Orange, NJ
Amy Finkelstein of Takoma Park, MD
Robyn Hasty of Brooklyn, NY
Ed Kashi of Montclair, NJ
Natalie Krick of Longmont, CO
The inaugural winner of the Rich Clarkson Founders Scholarship is Taz Lombardo, a master’s degree student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
The $2,000 Clarkson Founders Scholarship for either an undergraduate or graduate student was established by Rich Clarkson to recognize leadership in photojournalism
Spanish photojournalist Álvaro Laiz was awarded this year’s grant for his haunting series “The Hunt,” which documents the Udege people, who practice shamanism in the heart of the Russian Far East. In Sight spoke to Laiz about his series and the motivation behind his work.
UPDATE: THE GRANT APPLICATION PERIOD HAS NOW ENDED. THANK YOU TO THE 161 PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO SUBMITTED A PROPOSAL. THE JUDGES WILL BE GOING THROUGH THEM, AND HOPE TO HAVE A WINNER CHOSEN TO BE ANNOUNCED…
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.
Passing by in the blink of an eye: Wiktoria Wojchiechowska photographed Chinese cyclists riding in the inclement, on-going rain. Her snapshot-like images speak of the truth of an undisguised moment.
The organizers of the Prix Pictet today announced the 12 photographers on the shortlist for the sixth cycle of the award, which was founded by Swiss private bank Pictet Group. At CHF 100,000 CHF ($105,487), the Prix Pictet is one of the richest prizes for photography.
It’s impossible to describe my approach in a short answer here. But if you insist I would use the word “intuitive”. My method is also to have many different methods and the way I develop is by doing, failing, doubting, and constantly questioning my self and my work. And sometimes, rarely, there is also some kind of flow when I work. I do hope there is a constant change. Otherwise I would become quite worried and also bored.
Winners of Dronestagram‘s 2nd annual drone aerial photo competition were announced on July 6, with winners in three major categories–Nature, Place, and “Dronie” — taking home top prizes.
This video shows the winners and finalists’ portfolios for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015. Thousands of entries were received from all over the world. The video and awards were presented on July 8 during Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie p
JH Engström is honoured with the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 with his project titled „Tout Va Bien” and will receive a cash prize of 25,000 euros and a Leica M camera and lens.
The Juan Antonio Serrano Photojournalism Prize for Peace was created two years ago in Ecuador to promote a culture free of violence, to awaken social peace and to demand the right for free expression
