Category: Contests

  • Martin Kollar: Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2014 « The Leica Camera

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    Martin Kollar: Oskar Barnack Award Winner 2014 Martin Kollar was 2014′s Oskar Barnack Award Winner for “Field Trip,” a portfolio of images taken in Israel. In the above video, he describes the idea behind this work and how he tried to focus on the future instead of the past.

  • Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 – Finalists’ Video « The Leica Camera

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    Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 – Finalists’ Video The Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2014 received thousands of entries from photographers all over the world. We are pleased to share this video that was screened at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival held in Arles, France on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 and shows the portfolios…

  • Shannon Jensen Wins the 2014 Inge Morath Award – LightBox

    Shannon Jensen Wins the 2014 Inge Morath Award – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/06/30/shannon-jensen-wins-the-2014-inge-morath-award/#1 American Shannon Jensen won this year for a series of images she produced documenting refugees who had fled the Blue Nile state in Sudan in May and June 2012

  • 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, Part II – In Focus – The Atlantic

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    2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, Part II via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/2014-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest-part-ii/100764/ National Geographic was once again kind enough to allow me to share some more of the entries with you here, gathered from four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments

  • Eugene Richards Receives 2014 Missouri Honor Medal | NPPA

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    Eugene Richards Receives 2014 Missouri Honor Medal Documentary photojournalist and filmmaker Eugene Richards has been named as one of seven recipients of the 2014 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/eugene-richards-receives-2014-missouri-honor-medal The other medalists this year are veteran editor Byron E. Calame; long-running NPR host Audie Cornish; The Guardian, a 193-year-old…

  • PDNPulse » PDN Photo Annual Judges on Images They Wish Had Been Winners

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    PDN Photo Annual Judges on Images They Wish Had Been Winners | PDNPulse Judging a photo contest is hard work. So why do creative directors, art producers, gallery directors and photo editors to do it? One benefit is that they get to see fresh imagery—lots more imagery than just the final winners. To win a…

  • Leica Oskar Barnack Award

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    Leica Oskar Barnack Award / internationaler Foto-Wettbewerb Der Leica Oskar Barnack Award ist ein internationaler Foto-Wettbewerb für Fotografen. Ausgezeichnet wird zeitgenössische, herausragende Reportage-Fotografie. via Leica Oskar Barnack Award / internationaler Foto-Wettbewerb: http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/#/en/winner/winner-newcomer-2014 The Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2014 goes to Alejandro Cegarra from Venezuela. His portfolio The Other Side of the Tower of David…

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    International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is an international photo contest for photographers. Awarded will contemporary, outstanding reportage photography. via International Photo Contest – The Leica Oskar Barnack Award: http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/#/en/winner/winner-2014 Martin Kollar, born in what was formerly Czechoslovakia, receives the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his…

  • The Center Awards: The Editor’s Choice 3rd Place Winner: Mateusz Sarello | LENSCRATCH

    The Center Awards: The Editor’s Choice 3rd Place Winner: Mateusz Sarello | LENSCRATCH

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    The Center Awards: The Editor’s Choice 3rd Place Winner: Mateusz Sarello Last week and this week, Lenscratch will be celebrating the 2014 CENTER Award Winners. We are thrilled to align with such a wonderful organization that honors, supports, and provides opportunities to gifted and committed photographers. For 20 years, CENTE via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/05/center-awards-editors-choice-3rd-place-winner-mateusz-sarello/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+lenscratch/ZAbG “Swell” is…

  • Michael Schmidt Wins Fifth Annual Prix Pictet – LightBox

    Michael Schmidt Wins Fifth Annual Prix Pictet – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/05/21/michael-schmidt-prix-pictet/#1 German photographer Michael Schmidt has won this year’s Prix Pictet for his series Lebensmittel, which looks at both food and food production. He picks up a prize of approximately $112,000.

  • The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Winner: Claire Carter

    The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Winner: Claire Carter

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    The CENTER Awards: Project Launch Winner: Clare Carter For the next two weeks, Lenscratch will be celebrating the 2014 CENTER Award Winners. We are thrilled to align with such a wonderful organization that honors, supports, and provides opportunities to gifted and committed photographers. For 20 years, CENTER via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/05/center-3/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+lenscratch/ZAbG Clare Carter’s provocative series, “Corrective Rape,” exploring…

  • The CENTER Awards: Project Launch 1st Place Winner: Guy Martin

    The CENTER Awards: Project Launch 1st Place Winner: Guy Martin

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    The CENTER Awards: Project Launch 1st Place Winner: Guy Martin For the next two weeks, Lenscratch will be celebrating the 2014 CENTER Award Winners. We are thrilled to align with such a wonderful organization that honors, supports, and provides opportunities to gifted and committed photographers. For 20 years, CENTER via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/05/center/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+lenscratch/ZAbG in an attempt…

  • Richard Mosse Wins 2014 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

    Richard Mosse Wins 2014 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/05/12/richard-mosse-wins-2014-deutsche-borse-photography-prize/#1 for his series The Enclave. Mosse’s dream-like, false-color portraits taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Mark Ruwedel Wins 2014 Scotiabank Photography Award

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    Mark Ruwedel Wins 2014 Scotiabank Photography Award | PDNPulse Landscape photographer Mark Ruwedel is the winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Photography Award, the bank announced this evening at an awards ceremony in Toronto. In addition to receiving a $50,000 cash prize, Ruwedel will have a book of his work published by via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/04/mark-ruwedel-wins-2014-scotiabank-photography-award.html Landscape…

  • ICP Celebrates Infinity Award Winners

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    ICP Celebrates Infinity Award Winners (Recap and Video Links) | PDNPulse Last night the International Center of Photography honored photographers working in photojournalism, fine-art and fashion at the 30th annual Infinity Awards. The awards were inaugurated in 1985 as a way to recognize outstanding achievements by photographe via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/04/icp-celebrates-infinity-award-winners-recap-video-links.html Last night the International Center of Photography…

  • Man up for the World Press Photo Awards

    Man up for the World Press Photo Awards

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    Man up for the World Press Photo Awards — duckrabbit I’ve already detailed on a number of occasions poor governance at the World Press Photo awards. Today I want to… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2014/04/man-up-for-the-world-press-photo-awards/ But let’s be honest this is not the biggest issue World Press faces. The biggest issue is that they appear to be…

  • Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award

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    Tyler Hicks Awarded 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award Photojournalist Tyler Hicks of The New York Times is the recipient of the 2013 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his photographs of a terrorist attack on the upscale Westgate Shopping Center in Nairobi, Kenya last year. The same picture story by Hicks won via NPPA:…

  • Winning With Compassion and Respect

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    Link: Winning With Compassion and Respect “Daniel has an ability to capture quiet, intimate moments among chaos, and there is a tenderness to his work,” she said. “He treats his colleagues and subjects with compassion and respect.”

  • Daniel Berehulak Receives 2014 Chris Hondros Fund Award

    Daniel Berehulak Receives 2014 Chris Hondros Fund Award

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/22/daniel-berehulak-receives-2014-chris-hondros-fund-award/#1 Leica or no Leica, if you shoot film, this little film will make you want to go out and shoot a roll straightaway.

  • Buffett Foundation Funds Anja Niedringhaus Courage In Photojournalism Award

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    Buffett Foundation Funds Anja Niedringhaus Courage In Photojournalism Award The International Women’s Media Foundation is honored to announce the inception of the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award honoring the courage and dedication of Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus who was killed in Afghanistan via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/buffett-foundation-funds-anja-niedringhaus-courage-photojournalism-award Upon learning that Niedringhaus had been shot by…