Category: Contests

  • Attention Photojournalists: Upcoming Grant and Prize Deadlines

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    Attention Photojournalists: Upcoming Grant and Prize Deadlines | PDNPulse 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…

  • EPF 2014 – the winners | burn magazine

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    EPF 2014 – the winners         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

  • 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    2014 National Geographic Photo Contest 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…

  • Pingyao 2014 Alexia Foundation – The Eye of Photography

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    Pingyao 2014 Alexia Foundation 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?” 

  • Prix Talents MAP 2014 3rd Prize : Danielle Houghton – The Eye of Photography

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    Prix Talents MAP 2014 3rd Prize : Danielle Houghton “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…

  • Prix Talents MAP 2014 1st Prize : Shin Noguchi – The Eye of Photography

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    Prix Talents MAP 2014 1st Prize : Shin Noguchi “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…

  • Winner of the Prix Carmignac Returns Prize Money – The Eye of Photography

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    Winner of the Prix Carmignac Returns Prize Money Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian claims that her report on her home country was a misrepresentation

  • Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money

    Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money

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    Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money 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…

  • Perpignan 2014: Visa d’or Awards – The Eye of Photography

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    Perpignan 2014: Visa d’or Awards Last week, during the 26th Visa pour l’Image, the winners of the Visa d’or have been announced

  • Getty Grants for Personal Photo Projects

    Getty Grants for Personal Photo Projects

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    Getty Grants for Personal Photo Projects 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

  • Jon Lowenstein Wins 2014 Lange-Taylor Prize | NPPA

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    Jon Lowenstein Wins 2014 Lange-Taylor Prize 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…

  • Top Photographers Win $130,000 Worth of Getty Grants – LightBox

    Top Photographers Win $130,000 Worth of Getty Grants – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time 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

  • Mary F. Calvert Wins $25,000 Women’s Initiative Grant

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    Mary F. Calvert Wins $25,000 Women’s Initiative Grant | PDNPulse 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,…

  • Inside Chicago’s South Side – LightBox

    Inside Chicago’s South Side – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/03/jon-lowenstein-wins-lange-taylor-prize-for-south-side-chicago-work/#1 “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…

  • Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2014 | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2014 | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2014 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.

  • Aaron Siskind Foundation Announces 2014 Grant Recipients

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    Aaron Siskind Foundation Announces 2014 Grant Recipients | PDNPulse 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.

  • Alejandro Cegarra Wins 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship

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    Alejandro Cegarra Wins 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship | PDNPulse Photographer Alejandro Cegarra, 24, has been awarded the 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship for “The Other Side of the Tower,” his project on people living illegally in the Tower of David, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela.  Cegarra will receive 3,50 via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/alejandro-cegarra-wins-2014-ian-parry-scholarship.html This year’s “highly…

  • Photogs Marcus Bleasdale, Steve Ringman Win Environmental Journalism Awards

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    Photogs Marcus Bleasdale, Steve Ringman Win Environmental Journalism Awards | PDNPulse The Society of Environmental Journalists announced their 2014 awards for reporting on the environment yesterday. Seattle Times staffer Steve Ringman and VII’s Marcus Bleasdale were among the honorees. Ringman was recognized for his work with writer Craig via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/08/photogs-marcus-bleasdale-steve-ringman-win-environmental-journalism-awards.html The gist of the…

  • NPPA Short Grants Doubled To $6K Each | NPPA

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    NPPA Short Grants Doubled To $6K Each The National Press Photographers Association today announced the opening of the 2014 Short Grants entry period. The announcement included news of two major enhancements to the program. First, the grant awards have been doubled in size from previous years, via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-short-grants-doubled-6k-each “It is so exciting that we…

  • Alejandro Cegarra: Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014 « The Leica Camera

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    Alejandro Cegarra: Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014 This year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award was Alejandro Cegarra for his portfolio “The Other Side of the Tower of David,” which is dedicated to the squatters in an abandoned tower block in Caracas. In this video, Alejandro describes how he uses black-and-white photography to show the…