I feel I will see extraordinary pictures from the events of last year. I expect it will be a tough year to be a judge and make selections from the very worthy images that have been produced
2012 PDN’s 30 selection LaToya Ruby Frazier is among the 34 people named United States Artists fellows for 2014. The unrestricted award is worth $50,000.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/10/latoya-ruby-frazier-awarded-united-states-artists-fellowship.html
“If she [Branham] had bothered to discuss it with me, she would have known,” du Cille said. “But they’re just not going to take the direct word of the CDC and the director, and 21 days of monitoring means nothing to them because they’re just being alarmed.”
The annual four-day Eddie Adams Workshop for emerging photographers ended Monday with presentations by students and announcements of awards. Winners included: Palestinian photojournalist Eman Mohammed, who received the $2,500 Chris Hondros Fund Award. Zac
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/10/2014-eddie-adams-workshop-award-winners-announced.html
Photographer and educator Eliot Dudik has created a remarkable exhibition that launches the new photography program in the Department of Art & Art History at the College of William & Mary
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/15/ukraine-w-eugene-smith-grant/#1
American photographer Joseph Sywenkyj has won the the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his work documenting the lives of people affected by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
Looking for support for your visual journalism? Take note of these calls for entries. Tim Hetherington Grant A joint initiative of World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch, the Tim Hetherington Grant is a 20,000 euro prize awarded annually to a visual jou
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/10/attention-photojournalists-upcoming-grant-prize-deadlines.html
Nothing is ever the same on the street, the people and the places are constantly changing. Consequently there are millions of exciting permutations, whatever time of the day I decide to walk out with my camera
EPF 2014 WINNERS Alessandro Penso, winner – $10,000 Birte Kaufmann, runner-up – $3,000 Kiana Hayeri, honorable mention EPF 2014 FINALIST…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/10/epf-2014-the-winners/
Alessandro Penso, winner – $10,000
Birte Kaufmann, runner-up – $3,000
Kiana Hayeri, honorable mention
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/10/2014-national-geographic-photo-contest/100824/
National Geographic Magazine has opened its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on October 31, 2014. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $10,000 and a trip to National Geographic headquarters to participate in its annual photography seminar. The kind folks at National Geographic were once again kind enough to let me choose among its entries so far for display here on In Focus. Captions written by the individual photographers. [32 photos]
For the seventh consecutive year the Alexia Foundation will present an exhibition of the winners of its 2014 Professional and Student Grants – Sebastian Liste “The New Culture of Violence in Latin America” and Mehran Hamrahi “Iranian People – Ordinary or Criminals?”
“As a street photographer in Dublin, my project aims to explore new ways of documenting our streets. A ‘street” can now be represented in non-traditional ways. It’s about feeling the place where life takes place, in a park, on the seaside or inside. My photographs capture candid moments, concentrated on sometimes humorous elements of composition that seem pleasing to the eye. Human and animal behavior is fascinating, and I plan to develop and expend this project with the same passion.”
“Everyone lives their lives desperately. Sometimes alone, sometimes with the help of others, sometimes crying, laughing… I photograph daily life for its singular beauty. I want people to enjoy these extraordinary moments that exist in our daily, ordinary lives. I’m here, only here. You’re here, only here. Don’t try too hard. Do your best. You are so beautiful. Your life is so precious.”
Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian claims that her report on her home country was a misrepresentation
Newsha Tavakolian returned a 50,000-euro prize rather than see her work about contemporary Iran be controlled — distorted, she says — by the financier whose foundation selected her.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/keeping-true-to-an-iranian-vision-minus-big-money/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
“I had to make a choice between my artistic freedom and my dignity, or the glory of something that is not real or not mine when it comes to what kind of book do I have,” Ms. Tavakolian said in a phone interview from Tehran. “This is a universal subject, not just about Iran. It is a subject all photographers are facing, but they do not talk about it. This is the only thing I have. It’s my vision, my artistic freedom.”
Last week, during the 26th Visa pour l’Image, the winners of the Visa d’or have been announced
This year’s winners have tackled themes from South Africa’s post-apartheid generation to the lives of Arab women.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/getty-grants-for-personal-photo-projects/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
The Getty Images editorial grant winners were awarded today at Visa Pour l’Image festival
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-second Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American photographer, filmmaker, and writer Jon Lowenstein for “South Side,” his testimony to the Chicago neighborhood where he has li
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/jon-lowenstein-wins-2014-lange-taylor-prize
for “South Side,” his testimony to the Chicago neighborhood where he has lived and worked for over a decade
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/04/top-photographers-win-130000-worth-of-grants/#1
The five editorial winners include William Daniels, who shot powerful images for Central African Republic for TIME and other publications this year and Giulio Di Sturco, whose inside look at Madagascar’s cocoa war featured on LightBox in May
Photographer Mary F. Calvert has won the Alexia Foundation’s 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant to fund her project called “Missing in Action: Homeless Female Veterans,” the foundation announced this morning. Calvert was a finalist for the $25,000 grant last y
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/09/mary-f-calvert-wins-25000-womens-initiative-grant.html
Andrei Stenin, 33, a photographer with the Russian state agency RIA Novosti
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“The idea is to look at the South Side, in the space between the post-industrial meltdown to where Starbucks comes in,” he tells TIME, “and how globalization affects local communities, and ultimately how we deal with wealth inequality in the United States.”
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/cpc2014/
The Conscientious Portfolio Competition is now in its sixth year. I’m very excited to announce this year’s incarnation. The winner(s) will have their work featured on this site, in the form of an extended conversation.
The Aaron Siskind Foundation announced the five winners of their 2014 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/aaron-siskind-foundation-announces-2014-grant-recipients.html
Brave, committed, humble, fun and a great reporter. Colleagues remember the American journalist James Foley, who has been executed by jihadist militants.