Category: Contests

  • Photo of Loving Couple Wins World Press Photo Award | TIME

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    Photo of Loving Couple Wins World Press Photo Award Photographer Mads Nissen wins the coveted World Press Photo of the Year award via Time: http://time.com/3706207/photo-of-loving-couple-wins-world-press-photo-award/ “We were looking for an image that would matter tomorrow, not just today,” Pamela Chen, a member of this year’s World Press Photo jury and the editorial director of Instagram,…

  • Turkish Photographer Wins Two Top Awards at World Press Photo | TIME

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    Turkish Photographer Bulent Kilic Wins Two Top Awards at World Press Photo World Press Photo, the premiere photojournalism competition, has recognized Agence France-Presse Bulent Kilic as one of the best wire photographers of the year via Time: http://time.com/3705844/turkish-photographer-wins-two-top-awards-at-world-press-photo/ World Press Photo, the premiere photojournalism competition, has recognized Agence France-Presse Bulent Kilic as one of the…

  • World Press Photo disqualifies 20% of its Contest Finalists

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    World Press Photo Organizer: 20% of Finalists Disqualified A large number of entries were found to have been manipulated, says managing director Lars Boering via Time: http://time.com/3706626/world-press-photo-processing-manipulation-disqualified/ A large number of entries were found to have been manipulated or post-processed carelessly

  • Mads Nissen Wins World Press Photo of the Year 2014 Prize

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    Mads Nissen Wins World Press Photo of the Year 2014 Prize Danish photographer Mads Nissen of the daily newspaper Politiken has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2014 prize for an image of a gay couple during an intimate moment in St. Petersburg, Russia

  • World Press Photo 2015 Winners’ Gallery

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    World Press Photo 2015 Winners’ Gallery View the entire collection of winning images from the 58th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from more than 95,000 images submitted to the contest.

  • Cameron Spencer Wins POYi Sports Photographer of the Year Honors

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    Cameron Spencer Wins POYi Sports Photographer of the Year Honors | PDNPulse Photographer Cameron Spencer of Getty Images has been named Sports Photographer of the Year at the 2015 Pictures of the Year International competition, organizers announced today. His portfolio included a variety of dramatic sports action and feature imag via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/02/tk-wins-poyi-sports-photographer-year-honors.html Runners up…

  • Win McNamee, Brendan Smialowski Top White House Photo Winners | NPPA

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    Win McNamee, Brendan Smialowski Top White House Photo Winners The White House News Photographers Association announced that Getty Images photographer Win McNamee has been named Photographer of the Year and Agence France-Presse photographer Brendan Smialowski has won the Political Photo of the Year award in the 2015 via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/win-mcnamee-brendan-smialowski-top-white-house-photo-winners The White House News Photographers…

  • Bulent Kilic, Alexey Furman Among Top Winners at POYi Competition So Far

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    Brad Vest Named Newspaper Photographer of the Year at 2015 POYi Competition | PDNPulse Brad Vest of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee has won Newspaper Photographer of the Year honors at the 72nd annual Pictures of the Year International competition. Vest’s portfolio stood out for its journalistic and esthetic quality, POYi organi via PDNPulse:…

  • NPPA Names Annual Honor And Recognition Award Winners | NPPA

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    NPPA Names Annual Honor And Recognition Award Winners The National Press Photographers Association’s annual Honors & Recognitions were announced today by NPPA past president Michael Borland, chairman of the Honors & Recognitions Committee. Julie Jones is the recipient of the Joseph Costa Award, Melissa Lyttl via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-names-annual-honor-and-recognition-award-winners Julie Jones is the recipient of the…

  • A Preliminary Thought As We Enter Photojournalism Award Season — BagNews

    A Preliminary Thought As We Enter Photojournalism Award Season — BagNews

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    A Preliminary Thought As We Enter Photojournalism Award Season – Reading The Pictures I appreciate that a news photo deserves to be judged and valued as a professional artifact. It’s not nearly so straight forward, however. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/02/a-preliminary-thought-as-we-enter-photojournalism-award-season/ as we recognize a photo like this as a winner, as an object of…

  • Grant Deadlines: Magnum/Inge Morath, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz and Pulitzer Center

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    Grant Deadlines: Magnum/Inge Morath, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz and Pulitzer Center | PDNPulse Deadlines are coming up for grants supporting women photographers, and photographers working on social issues. The 2015 Inge Morath Award  Magnum and the Inge Morath Foundation have announced deadlines for the 14th annual Inge Morath Award: submissions mu via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/02/upcoming-grant-deadlines-magnuminge-morath-manuel-rivera-ortiz-pulitzer-center.html Deadlines are coming…

  • Tim Hetherington Trust Unveils Visionary Award Shortlist | TIME

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    Exclusive: Tim Hetherington Trust Unveils Visionary Award Shortlist The Visionary Award, organized by the Tim Hetherington Trust, is designed to foster innovative approaches to visual storytelling via Time: http://time.com/3692898/tim-hetherington-trust-unveils-visionary-award-shortlist/ The finalists – Dominic Bracco II, Erika Diettes, Andrew Michael Ellis, Jack Hatton, and the duo of Kel O’Neill and Eline Jongsma – stand a chance…

  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 – The Atlantic

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    Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, co-owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide, opened for entries on January 5, and will stay open until February 26. The owners and sponsors have been kind enough to share the following 10 fin via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2015/385064/ The Wildlife…

  • Filipino Domestic Worker Earns Prestigious Magnum Fellowship for Her Photography

    Filipino Domestic Worker Earns Prestigious Magnum Fellowship for Her Photography

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    Filipino Domestic Worker Earns Prestigious Magnum Fellowship for Her Photography For the past 10 years, 27-year-old Xyza Cruz Bacani has been working as a domestic worker for a wealthy Chinese family in Hong Kong. On her days off, she via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/23/filipino-domestic-worker-earns-prestigious-magnum-fellowship-photography/ For the past 10 years, 27-year-old Xyza Cruz Bacani has been working as…

  • Jim Richardson wins 5th annual Photographer’s Photographer Award – The Photo Society

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    Jim Richardson wins 5th annual Photographer’s Photographer Award Every year on the last day of the National Geographic seminar on photography, all of the photographers gather to share the work they have done over the past year.  The afternoon begins by honoring one of their own with an award chosen with a vote by current NGM photographers.

  • TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2015 Grantees | TIME

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    Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund 2015 Grants Announced The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund today announces, exclusively through TIME LightBox, the winners of its 2015 grants via Time: http://time.com/3672263/time-exclusive-magnum-emergency-fund-announces-2015-grantees/ This year’s selection of awardees are Massimo Berruti, Matt Black, Peter DiCampo, Emine Gozde Sevim, Curran Hatleberg, Guy Martin, Pete Muller, Elena Perlino, Nii Obodai Provencal, Asim Rafiqui…

  • Michel du Cille Honored With NPPA’s Sprague Award | NPPA

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    Michel du Cille Honored With NPPA’s Sprague Award The National Press Photographers Association’s highest and most prestigious honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, will be awarded to the late Michel du Cille of The Washington Post. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/michel-du-cille-honored-nppas-sprague-award The National Press Photographers Association’s highest and most prestigious honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial…

  • Nadia Sablin’s “Aunties” – The New Yorker

    Nadia Sablin’s “Aunties” – The New Yorker

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    Nadia Sablin’s “Aunties” An exploration of the daily lives of the photographer’s two unmarried aunts, who live together in Alekhovshchina, Russia. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/nadia-sablins-aunties This week, the Brooklyn-based photographer Nadia Sablin received the 2014 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for her series “Aunties,” an exploration of the daily lives of her father’s two…

  • Prix AFD Meilleur Reportage 2014 : Romain Laurendeau – The Eye of Photography

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    Prix AFD Meilleur Reportage 2014 : Romain Laurendeau The AFD Special Price / Réponses Photo Best Photo Report was awarded to Romain Laurendeau with his series “Sidi Moussa”. The Prize is of € 5,000 and the winner will be published in Réponses Photo magazine.

  • Grand Prix AFD 2014 : Massimo Berruti – The Eye of Photography

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    Grand Prix AFD 2014 : Massimo Berruti AFD / Polka Grand Prix for the Best Photo Report Project: Massimo Berruti for “Drops. Water crisis in Gaza and the West Bank” Prize: EUR 15,000 of financing for a reportage and its publication in the magazine Polka.