Category: Contests

Announcing the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013

Announcing the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013

Championing Independent Journalism

via Frontline Club: http://www.frontlineclub.com/announcing-the-winners-of-the-frontline-club-awards-2013/

At a ceremony held at the Frontline Club on 24 October, 2013 and hosted by Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, the winners of the Frontline Club Awards 2013 were announced. The judging panel – Carlotta Gall, Jon Lee Anderson, Allan Little, Patrick Cockburn, Gary Knight Jeremy Bowen and Vaughan Smith – commended all the entrants, but came to a unanimous decision on each winner.

October 25, 2013
The First Annual Photogeek Geek Photo Contest

The First Annual Photogeek Geek Photo Contest

I’ve been writing a lot of geeky testing stuff for the last couple of weeks, most of which can be summed up as ‘take some pictures; if they look good everything is fine.’ So last weekend, I went out and took some pictures. It was pretty fun. So much fun t

via LensRentals Blog: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/10/the-first-annual-photogeek-geek-photo-contest

Seeing a need that needed to be filled, by the power vested in me as President and Treasurer of the Society of Overly Analytical Lens Assessors, I have organized the first photography contest for photogeeks.

October 23, 2013
World Press Photo Looks To Change Contest Rules For Retouching

World Press Photo Looks To Change Contest Rules For Retouching – A Photo Editor

The controversy that erupted this summer over the World Press Photo award winning image taken by Paul Hansen has forced the organization to examine their contest rules. In a press release on October 2nd announcing contest chair Gary Knight, Managing Direc

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/10/21/world-press-photo-looks-to-change-contest-rules-for-retouching/

The darkroom is long gone and a RAW image can have many different interpretations as it’s brought to life on the computer screen. Expecting photographers to not produce contest winning interpretations when entering World Press Photo is folly.

October 21, 2013
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/10/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2013/100611/

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, founded in 1964, is an annual international showcase of the very best in nature photography

October 18, 2013
Harrowing Photos of the Mentally Ill in Sub-Saharan Africa

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/10/16/chained-and-condemned-harrowing-photos-of-the-mentally-ill-in-sub-saharan-africa/#1

“Where there is war, famine, displacement, it is always the most vulnerable who suffer the greatest” says Robin Hammond. The mentally ill, he notes, are a “voiceless minority condemned to lives of quiet misery.”

October 17, 2013
Robin Hammond Wins $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant

Robin Hammond Wins $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant | PDNPulse

Photographer Robin Hammond has been awarded the 2013 W. Eugene Smith Grant, a $30,000 prize, to help complete his ongoing project called “Condemned–Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis.” Hammond has spent two years working on the project, which do

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/10/robin-hammond-wins-30000-w-eugene-smith-fund-grant.html

Photographer Robin Hammond has been awarded the 2013 W. Eugene Smith Grant, a $30,000 prize, to help complete his ongoing project called “Condemned–Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis.”

October 17, 2013
Photography in Service to Humanity

Photography in Service to Humanity

The photographer Robin Hammond’s long-term work documenting mental illness in several African countries has earned him the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/photography-in-service-to-humanity/

Robin Hammond: “I never wanted to photograph death but the real world violence and blood filled the streets,” he said. “The social pain was so great and injustices so constant that the only way to understand this madness was through photography.”

October 17, 2013
NPPA Announces Seven 2013 Short Grant Winners

NPPA Announces Seven 2013 Short Grant Winners

Seven talented photojournalists will be receiving $3,000 each to work on photography projects as winners of the 2013 NPPA Short Grants Competition. The winners are Matt Black, Diane Weiss, April Saul, Cengiz Yar Jr., John Locher, William Plowman, and Loga

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-announces-seven-2013-short-grant-winners

Seven talented photojournalists will be receiving $3,000 each to work on photography projects as winners of the 2013 NPPA Short Grants Competition. The winners are Matt Black, Diane Weiss, April Saul, Cengiz Yar Jr., John Locher, William Plowman, and Logan Mock-Bunting.

October 15, 2013
AFP’s Fabio Bucciarelli and Javier Manzano win Bayeux Calvados Awards

AFP’s Fabio Bucciarelli and Javier Manzano win Bayeux Calvados Awards

Fabio Bucciarelli has won a €7000 cash prize at the 20th Bayeux Calvados Awards for an image shot in Syria of ‘a wounded young Syrian who sits at the back of a truck after an attack carried out by President Assad’s forces on a Shaar neighbourhood’. Buccia

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2300245/afps-fabio-bucciarelli-and-javier-manzano-win-bayeux-calvados-awards

Agence France-Presse’s photographers Fabio Bucciarelli and Javier Manzano have won top awards at the 20th edition of the Bayeux Calvados Awards, going home, respectively, with the Photo Prize and Public Photo Prize

October 12, 2013
World Press Photo to change contest rules following post-processing controversy

World Press Photo to change contest rules following post-processing controversy

Earlier this year, World Press Photo was forced to re-evaluate the integrity of its winning image following false allegations of forgery leveraged against photographer Paul Hansen. While a panel of forensic analysts found that the image had not been digit

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2298433/world-press-photo-to-change-contest-rules-following-post-processing-controversy

World Press Photo, who has selected VII Photo co-founder Gary Knight as chair of its 2014 contest, has announced a change of rules regarding “the permissible levels in post-processing of image files” submitted following this year’s intense debate about manipulation in photojournalism

October 3, 2013
Tim Hetherington receives posthumous honour

Link: Tim Hetherington receives posthumous honour – British Journal of Photography

Photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed in April 2011, has received the 2013 McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism from the US Congressional Medal of Honor Society

September 22, 2013
World Press and Human Rights Watch Seek Applications for $26K Hetherington Grant

World Press and Human Rights Watch Seek Applications for $26K Hetherington Grant | PDNPulse

World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch announced today that the 2013 Tim Hetherington Grant, worth € 20,000 (approximately $26,500) is open for applications. Photojournalists working on projects with human rights themes can apply for the grant, which wa

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/09/world-press-and-human-rights-watch-seek-applications-for-26k-hetherington-grant.html

World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch invite photojournalists and visual journalists around the world to apply for the third annual Tim Hetherington Grant. The grant is intended to support a photographer in completing an existing project on a human rights theme. The deadline for submissions is 17 October, and the name of the recipient of the grant will be announced on 11 November.

September 10, 2013
Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award

Link: Laurent Van Der Stockt wins Visa d’Or News Award – British Journal of Photography

Laurent Van Der Stockt, a photographer with Reportage by Getty Images, has won this year’s Visa d’Or News Award for his work in Syria, exposing the use of chemical weapons in the war-torn country

September 8, 2013
Donna De Cesare Wins The Maria Moors Cabot Prize

Donna De Cesare Wins The Maria Moors Cabot Prize

Documentary photojournalist Donna De Cesare, whose new book tells the story of the pain and grief created by El Salvador’s murderous gangs and which is the cover story of this month’s issue of News Photographer magazine, today was honored with the Maria M

via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/donna-de-cesare-wins-maria-moors-cabot-prize

Her book, Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs, has just been published by the University of Texas Press in Austin.

September 6, 2013
Farzana Hossen Wins 2013 Ian Parry Scholarship for Project on Violence Against Women

Farzana Hossen Wins 2013 Ian Parry Scholarship for Project on Violence Against Women | PDNPulse

Farzana Hossen, a student at Pathshala South Media Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has won the 2013 Ian Parry Scholarship for her project “Lingering Scars,” about the rise in violence against women in Bangladesh. Hossen receives 3,500 pounds (approximatel

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/09/farzana-hossen-wins-2013-ian-parry-scholarship-for-project-on-violence-against-women.html

Hossen has documented women injured by acid thrown at them. One of the judges for this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship, photojournalist Don McCullin, noted the strength of Hossen’s images and text. “I get a clear sense that Farzana has an invested interest in conveying the horror of these attacks.”

September 6, 2013
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Marco Gualazzini

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Marco Gualazzini

Marco Gualazzini began documenting the conflict between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army in 2012. After winning the $10,000 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, he is now returning to the region to continue his work, reports Rachel Segal Ham

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/interview/2293057/getty-images-grants-for-editorial-photography-marco-gualazzini

Marco Gualazzini began documenting the conflict between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army in 2012. After winning the $10,000 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, he is now returning to the region to continue his work

September 6, 2013
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Samuel James

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Samuel James

Samuel James has been working in Nigeria for the past five years. For The Water of My Land, he documented the illicit oil trade on the Niger Delta. James will continue the project with the support of a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, reports

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/interview/2293056/getty-images-grants-for-editorial-photography-samuel-james

Samuel James has been working in Nigeria for the past five years. For The Water of My Land, he documented the illicit oil trade on the Niger Delta. James will continue the project with the support of a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography

September 6, 2013
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Eugene Richards

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Eugene Richards

In 2010 Eugene Richards published the book War is Personal, which documented the devastating effects that serving in Iraq has had on some veterans and their families. Now with the help of another Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, Richards plan

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/interview/2293055/getty-images-grants-for-editorial-photography-eugene-richards

In 2010 Eugene Richards published the book War is Personal, which documented the devastating effects that serving in Iraq has had on some veterans and their families. Now with the help of another Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, Richards plans to continue the project, looking this time at soldiers returning from Afghanistan

September 5, 2013
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Matt Eich

Link: Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Matt Eich – British Journal of Photography

For the past three years Matt Eich has made the journey to Greenwood, Mississippi, to document the everyday lives of the local people. Using the Getty Editorial Grant he now plans to develop this into a large-scale participatory project that will bring members of the community together

September 5, 2013
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Tomas van Houtryve

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Tomas van Houtryve

After spending seven years photographing life in countries under communist rule, Tomas van Houtryve has turned his attention to America’s drone war. With the $10,000 awarded to him through the Getty Editorial Grant, he intends to use a drone-mounted camer

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/interview/2293046/getty-images-grants-for-editorial-photography-tomas-van-houtryve

After spending seven years photographing life in countries under communist rule, Tomas van Houtryve has turned his attention to America’s drone war. With the $10,000 awarded to him through the Getty Editorial Grant, he intends to use a drone-mounted camera in his work

September 5, 2013