Category: Contests

Stan Douglas Named the Recipient of ICP’s Infinity Award for Art

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Stan Douglas has been named the recipient of the prestigious Infinity Award for Art by the International Center of Photography. Tonight, he will be presented the award at a ceremony in New York City. Douglas works in various media including video, installation and photography. Here, Lightbox visits highlights of three projects from the artist’s prolific photographic endeavors.

May 2, 2012
Overseas Press Club Award Winners Announced

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The Overseas Press Club of America has just announced the winners of its annual awards. LightBox presents the work of the photojournalists who were honored by the OPC, and who will be further recognized tonight at the organization’s gala.

April 25, 2012
1st Prize Multimedia 2012: AFRIKANER BLOOD, inside a racist bootcamp

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White South African teens wrestle with an uncertain identity. An extreme right-wing group is teaching young Afrikaners to eschew Nelson Mandela’s vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The fringe group Kommandokorps organizes camps during school holidays where Afrikaner teenagers learn self-defense and how to combat a perceived black enemy. The group’s leader, self-proclaimed ‘Colonel’ Franz Jooste, served with the South African Defence Force under the old apartheid regime. The teenagers are taught (brainwashed might be a more accurate term) that they are their own people — not South Africans but Afrikaners — and that they shouldn’t integrate in the new democratic South Africa.

This disturbing multimedia production about the racist, right-wing organization was awarded 1st Prize in Multimedia by World Press Photo. The story was made by Dutch journalist/videographer Elles van Gelder & Dutch photojournalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien in conjunction with their production company froginatent.com.

April 24, 2012
Keep in Flight Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

Link: Illinois Press Photographers Association

On Saturday, April 14, 2012 the Illinois Press Photographers Association presented John H. White with the first Keep in Flight Lifetime Achievement Award. Former Columbia College student, friend and John’s co-worker at the Sun-Times, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, flew in from Washington D.C. to present John with the special award.

April 23, 2012
Update: The Subject of Massoud Hossaini’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photo

Moving Past a Haunting Image

An Agence France-Presse photographer met with Tarana Akbari, the 11-year-old subject of Massoud Hossaini’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/a-smile-from-tarana-akbari/?pagewanted=all

April 17, 2012
Bayeux-Calvados Award calling for entries

Link: British Journal of Photography

The Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents is calling for entries, with photographers invited to submit their work for a chance to win a €7000 cash prize.

April 17, 2012
Pulitzer Winner Met His Subject On A Hike

Link: NPPA

“He’s like a lot of the guys I met overseas. He had a great way of building a friendship fast at first, then he took two giant steps back and disappeared against the wall. He became a fly. Him being there, it got rid of a lot of ambivalence.”

April 17, 2012
Massoud Hossaini and Craig F. Walker Win 2012 Pulitzer Prizes

Pulitzer Prizes: The Effects of War at Home

The Denver Post photographer Craig F. Walker and the Agence France-Presse photographer Massoud Hossaini won the 2012 Pulitzer Prizes for photography.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/pulitzer-prizes-the-effects-of-war-at-home/?pagewanted=all

Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post was awarded his second Pulitzer Prize on Monday afternoon for “Welcome Home: The Story of Scott Ostrom,” which won in the feature category

April 16, 2012
Deadline fast approaching for Getty Images Editorial Grants

Link: British Journal of Photography

Photographers have less two weeks to enter this year’s Getty Images’ Grants for Editorial Photography, worth $20,000

April 16, 2012
2012 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Ten Photographers

2012 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Ten Photographers | PDNPulse

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships. The winners include ten photographers: Elizabeth B. Barret, Peter Bogardus, Stephen DiRado, Dornith Doherty, Douglas DuBois, Wendy Ewald, John Goss

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/04/2012-guggenheim-fellowships-awarded-to-ten-photographers.html

April 12, 2012
National Magazine Awards 2012 Finalists Announced (photo categories)

National Magazine Awards 2012 Finalists Announced – A Photo Editor

PHOTOGRAPHY GQ; Interview; National Geographic; Virginia Quarterly Review; Vogue NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Harper’s Magazine for “Juvenile Injustice,” October Photographs by Richard Ross Harper’s Magazine for “Uncertain Exodus,” July Photographs by

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/04/09/national-magazine-awards-2012-finalists-announced/

April 9, 2012
Student Project Award

Link: Luceo Images

This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 and receive mentorship for the project from one LUCEO member.

Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel of four judges presided over by moderator Michael Wichita, Director of Photography for AARP Bulletin, will narrow the decision to one winner who will be announced during LOOK3: The Festival of the Photograph.

The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 10, 2012.

March 29, 2012
Multimedia practioners reactions to the 2012 World Press Photo multimedia awards

Link: DSLR News Shooter

 I have my own fairly strong views on the competition and the direction in which newspaper and news website multimedia is heading – I have not sought to promote those here. This is more a listening exercise to try and gauge what practitioners in the field are thinking – with the aim of shaping future contests and dialogue.

March 23, 2012
BIPP considering rule change after controversial awards ceremony

Link: British Journal of Photography

The British Institute of Professional Photography is considering banning judges from entering its annual competition after four of this year’s jurors received prizes in the organisation’s Professional Photography Awards.

March 19, 2012
World Press Photo Multimedia Contest Winners

Link: World Press Photo

For the first World Press Photo Multimedia Contest, the jury announced six winning productions across two categories, linear productions and interactive productions.

March 16, 2012
Who should win this years ‘sanctioned incest’ worldpressphoto@ multimedia awards and why they probably won’t

Who should win this years ‘sanctioned incest’ @ worldpressphoto multimedia awards and why they probably won’t — duckrabbit

This afternoon the winners of the World Press Photo Multimedia awards will be announced. Last year the panel was chaired…

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‘No conflict of interest’ in voting for your own agency? I’m beginning to wonder what in the world of photojournalism actually would be considered a ‘conflict of interest’?

Speaking for NOOR images Claudia Hinterseer was kind enough to explain to Brook how the photography competition scene works

‘Looking at other international photography contests you will be amazed how often jury members are professionally or – as is very common in our industry – personally (on the basis of friendships) related to photographers whose work is rewarded.’

March 15, 2012
Canadian 2011 National Pictures of the Year nominees posted

Link: Rob Galbraith

March 9, 2012
Paul Graham wins the Hasselblad Foundation International Award

Link: British Journal of Photography

British photographer Paul Graham has won the 2012 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, which comes with a $150,000 cash prize

March 8, 2012
Should Photo Contests Require Original Image Files?

Should Photo Contests Require Original Image Files? – PhotoShelter Blog

Look at this photo. Shaofeng Xu’s photo of a protestor climbing a high-voltage electricity tower won Honorable Mention in the Contemporary Issues category of the World Press Photo 2012 contest. Look at it again as a thumbnail. If the subject of the image

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For the past few years, I’ve been paying attention to the winners of the most prestigious photojournalism awards. The decisive moments captured by photographers (many in harm’s way) are pretty astounding. These are great images. But something that’s been bothering me is the obviousness of the post processing, and how “artistic” looking photos have become.

March 7, 2012
Eich receives ShootQ Grant

Link: Luceo Images

LUCEO member Matt Eich has received a $12,000 grant from ShootQ/Pictage for his ongoing project “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town.” These images were part of his original application, submitted in August of 2010.

March 5, 2012