Category: Contests

  • National Press Photographers Foundation Names Seven Scholarship Winners | NPPA

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    National Press Photographers Foundation Names Seven Scholarship Winners Seven college students have been selected by the National Press Photographers Foundation to each receive $2,000 scholarships, professor emeritus Dr. James W. Brown of Indiana University announced today. Brown is the Foundation’s scholarship chair. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/national-press-photographers-foundation-names-seven-scholarship-winners Seven college students have been selected by the National Press…

  • New Competition Promises $30,000 to Instagram Users | TIME

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    New Competition Promises $30,000 to Instagram Users Three major prizes are up for grabs via Time: http://time.com/3849460/instagram-grant-getty-images/ Now, Getty Images is bankrolling a new photography grant program that will support the work of photographers who use Instagram to document stories “from underrepresented communities around the world.”

  • When They Hate, My Answer Is More Love — Vantage — Medium

    When They Hate, My Answer Is More Love — Vantage — Medium

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    When They Hate, My Answer Is More Love My Acceptance Speech at the World Press Photo Awards via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/world-press-photo-2015-my-acceptance-speech-6b67a6f25e49 Mads Nissen: My World Press Photo Award Acceptance Speech

  • Marcus Bleasdale: When Photography Campaigns for Change – NYTimes.com

    Marcus Bleasdale: When Photography Campaigns for Change – NYTimes.com

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    Marcus Bleasdale: When Photography Campaigns for Change Marcus Bleasdale, winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club, has worked with nongovernmental organizations that have used his images to get the attention of policy-makers and power brokers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/marcus-bleasdale-when-photography-campaigns-for-change/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog I think we have to be targeted. Sometimes the most effective…

  • Magnum Photographer Jerome Sessini Wins Olivier Rebbot Award | TIME

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    Magnum Photographer Jerome Sessini Wins Olivier Rebbot Award The Overseas Press Club Awards recognizes the best international journalism via Time: http://time.com/3840754/jerome-sessini-wins-olivier-rebbot-award/ Last July, Magnum photographer Jerome Sessini was in eastern Ukraine when he heard that a plane had been brought down by a surface-to-air missile.

  • Follow the 2015 PDN’s 30 Photographers on Tumblr, Instagram

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    Follow the 2015 PDN’s 30 Photographers on Tumblr, Instagram | PDNPulse A list of links to the Tumblr blogs and Instagram feeds of 2015 PDN’s 30 photographers. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/04/follow-the-2015-pdns-30-photographers-on-tumblr-instagram.html PDN’s April issue included the annual PDN’s 30 feature, in which we profile 30 new and emerging photographers to watch. As we’ve done in years…

  • Winners of the 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest – The Atlantic

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    Winners of the 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The editors of Smithsonian magazine have announced the winners of their 12th annual photo contest, selected from more than 26,500 entries. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/winners-of-the-2014-smithsonian-magazine-photo-contest/390876/ The editors of Smithsonian magazine have announced the winners of their 12th annual photo contest, selected from more than 26,500 entries. The…

  • Phyllis Dooney: CENTER’S 1st Place Editor’s Choice Award | LENSCRATCH

    Phyllis Dooney: CENTER’S 1st Place Editor’s Choice Award | LENSCRATCH

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    Phyllis Dooney: CENTER’S 1st Place Editor’s Choice Award Congratulations to Phyllis Dooney for her 1st Place win in CENTER’s Editor’s Choice Awards for her Project, Moonflowers. Juror Alice Gabriner, International Photo Editor of TIME magazine shared this statement: I was immediately intrigued by the first pict via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/04/phyllis-dooney-centers-editors-choice-award/ I was immediately intrigued by the…

  • Sony World Photography Awards – Winners: Sony World Photography Awards 2015 | LensCulture

    Sony World Photography Awards – Winners: Sony World Photography Awards 2015 | LensCulture

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    Winners: Sony World Photography Awards 2015 – Photographs by the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards | LensCulture Come see our full-screen slideshow featuring our favorite work from this year’s winners, including that of the L’Iris d’Or/Photographer of the Year: John Moore via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/sony-world-photography-awards-winners-sony-world-photography-awards-2015 We have a winner! From a record-breaking 173,444 entries…

  • Overlooked at World Press Photo, Daniel Berehulak Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography | American Photo

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    Overlooked at World Press Photo, Daniel Berehulak Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography Earlier this year, it was pointed out that his work went overlooked in the World Press Photo contest, where 1 in 5 finalists were disqualified for approaching some unacceptable level of post-processing.

  • Post-Dispatch’s Ferguson Coverage Wins Pulitzer in Breaking News Photography – NYTimes.com

    Post-Dispatch’s Ferguson Coverage Wins Pulitzer in Breaking News Photography – NYTimes.com

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    Post-Dispatch’s Ferguson Coverage Wins Pulitzer in Breaking News Photography The photography staff of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for its coverage of the aftermath of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/post-dispatchs-ferguson-coverage-wins-pulitzer-in-breaking-news-photography/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Like most newspapers in the United States, the…

  • Scenes From the Ebola Crisis Earn Photography Pulitzer – NYTimes.com

    Scenes From the Ebola Crisis Earn Photography Pulitzer – NYTimes.com

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    Scenes From the Ebola Crisis Earn Photography Pulitzer Daniel Berehulak’s coverage of the Ebola crisis in West Africa for The New York Times earned him the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/daniel-berehulak-the-ebola-crisis-earn-photography-pulitzer/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Mr. Berehulak, a freelance photographer who works mostly for the Times, has spent four months since August covering the Ebola…

  • For the photojournalists who covered Ferguson, winning a Pulitzer is ‘an odd feeling’ | Poynter.

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    For the photojournalists who covered Ferguson, winning a Pulitzer is ‘an odd feeling’ On Monday afternoon, a few hours after winning a Pulitzer for breaking news photography with the photo staff at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson went right back to work. Earlier, there was a little champagne and a cake that went uncut…

  • The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation

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    {{(global.pageOgTitle) ? global.pageOgTitle : global.pageTitle}} {{(global.pageDescription) ? global.pageDescription : global.pageDefaultDescription}} Link: http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Feature-Photography Awarded to Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, The New York Times, for his gripping, courageous photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

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    {{(global.pageOgTitle) ? global.pageOgTitle : global.pageTitle}} {{(global.pageDescription) ? global.pageDescription : global.pageDefaultDescription}} Link: http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Breaking-News-Photography Awarded to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photography Staff for powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country.

  • Rewarding Character and Reportage – NYTimes.com

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    Rewarding Character and Reportage Kevin Frayer, a freelance photographer who works for Getty News in China, has won the 2015 Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award. Diana Markosian, 25, was selected for the fund’s emerging photojournalist award.

  • Kevin Frayer, Diana Markosian Win Chris Hondros Fund Awards | TIME

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    Kevin Frayer, Diana Markosian Win Chris Hondros Fund Awards “Chris Hondros was the consummate photojournalist,” says Kevin Frayer via Time: http://time.com/3824266/kevin-frayer-diana-markosian-chris-hondros-fund/ When photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed in Libya four years ago, he left behind a legacy of award-winning images that continue to inspire photographers today. “It’s the kind of work that so many of…

  • Åsa Sjöström, Amirtharaj Stephen Win 6th Annual Activist Awards

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    Åsa Sjöström, Amirtharaj Stephen Win 6th Annual Activist Awards | PDNPulse Åsa Sjöström has won the $15,000 Activist Award for professional photographers, while Amirtharaj Stephen has won the $5,000 award for emerging photographers, Catchlight has announced. Formerly known as PhotoPhilanthropy, Catchlight sponsors the Activist A via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/04/asa-sjostrom-amirtharaj-stephen-win-6th-annual-activist-awards.html Formerly known as PhotoPhilanthropy, Catchlight sponsors the…

  • Antoine Bruy: CENTER’s Project Launch Juror’s Award | LENSCRATCH

    Antoine Bruy: CENTER’s Project Launch Juror’s Award | LENSCRATCH

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    Antoine Bruy: CENTER’s Project Launch Juror’s Award Congratulations to Antoine Bruy for his Project Launch Juror’s Award from CENTER. Antoine’s thirteen-year project, Scrublands, documents those living on the fringe. Juror Jack Woody, Publisher, Twin Palms Publishers selected Antoine’s project for this awa via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/04/antoine-bruy-centers-project-launch-jurors-award/ Congratulations to Antoine Bruy for his Project Launch Juror’s Award…

  • 11 Photographers Win 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships

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    11 Photographers Win 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships | PDNPulse The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the recipients of their 2015 fellowship grants. Among the 175 scholars, scientists, mathematicians, and artists chosen from over 3,100 applications this year are 11 photographers. As Guggenheim F via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/04/11-photographers-win-2015-guggenheim-fellowships.html Public outcry was swift and loud, and people…