View the entire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest. The winners were selected from over 100,000 images submitted to the contest.
Category: Contests
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World Press Photo Winners Gallery
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Samuel Aranda Wins 2012 World Press Photo of the Year
Samuel Aranda Wins 2012 World Press Photo of the Year | PDNPulse
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won 2012 World Press Photo of the Year for his photo, shot for The New York Times, of a Yemeni woman holding a relative wounded during anti-government demonstrations. The World Press Photo organization announced the
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/02/samuel-aranda-wins-2012-world-press-photo-of-the-year.html
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won 2012 World Press Photo of the Year for his photo, shot for The New York Times, of a Yemeni woman holding a relative wounded during anti-government demonstrations. The World Press Photo organization announced the winners of the 55th annual contest at a press conference February 10 in Amsterdam.
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99 seats to watch POYi judging live, online
POYi judging begins in the morning. Live streaming returns through Adobe’s system with a lot more hours to be streamed than last year
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Sony World Photography Awards shortlist unveiled
Link: British Journal of Photography
The 2012 edition of the Sony World Photography Awards is just around the corner – coming to London in April. But, the World Photography Organisation has today announced its shortlisted photographers
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Where’s the line on toning photos, especially for contests?
The core determinant, for me, is whether objects were moved, people’s faces were changed, images were combined in a way that altered what anyone would have seen in the setting, or if things were removed from the frame
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Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2012 Grantees
LightBox | Time
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/01/exclusive-magnum-emergency-fund-announces-2012-grantees/#1
The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund has made an exclusive announcement to LightBox disclosing the winners of its 2012 grants. The fund, which began in 2009, awards the annual prize to photographers from around the world who use their cameras to shed light on underserved issues and communities.
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The problem with prizes
The problem with prizes
At some point after being in Croatia in the 90’s I stopped going to conflict zones, because I felt that it will became part of me. I felt that being horrified at what was going on I might take a gun instead of my camera someday.
via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/01/16/the-problem-with-prizes/
As I prepared pictures to submit to a contest I could not stop thinking that all these past years the main photo contests chose their winners from among the pictures depicting wars and conflicts. I think that this year will be the same, due to the many bloody events around the world.
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Hasselblad’s Masters Award winners announced
British Journal of Photography
Eleven photographers have been selected as the winners of this year Masters Award with Jon Lowenstein and Christian Tagliavini respectively receiving the top honours in the editorial and fine art categories
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NPPA Announces Reorganized Best Of Photojournalism Contest For 2012
The National Press Photographers Association today made several significant announcements about its annual Best Of Photojournalism contest, including a reorganization of the competition as visual journalism moves into a new era. Along with a new and easier way to enter, there’s also some category revisions plus some new categories, and winners will be picked using a mixture of online and on-site judging.
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Lacoste Elysée Photo Prize Cancelled Over Censorship Controversy
Lacoste reportedly objected for political reasons to a project by finalist Larissa Sansour called “Nation Estate,” which was inspired by the recent Palestinian bid for nationhood at the United Nations. Lacoste said in a statement today that Sansour’s work did not fit the contest theme, and denies it excluded her for political reasons.
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CPOY Awards: What Winning Means
CPOY Awards: What Winning Means
The 66th annual College Photographer of the Year awards were announced last month, selected from among more than fourteen thousand submissions. What kinds …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/12/cpoy-awards-what-winning-means.html?currentPage=all
The 66th annual College Photographer of the Year awards were announced last month, selected from among more than fourteen thousand submissions. What kinds of careers can the talented young winners expect?
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International Street Photography Awards: Call for Submissions
The International Street Photography Awards are now accepting submissions from street photographers around the world. Twenty esteemed judges are looking for photographs that display a unique style in this genre that crosses over into portraiture, documentary and fine art photography.
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If clichés are so bad, why do they win contests?
A photographer asked: “If cliches are so bad, why do so many of them win contests?”
Good question.
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Shortlist for 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize announced
British Journal of Photography
Photographers Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams have been selected as nominees for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, organised by The Photographers’ Gallery
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$20,000 Aftermath Project Grant for 2012 Awarded to Andrew Lichtenstein
$20,000 Aftermath Project Grant for 2012 Awarded to Andrew Lichtenstein | PDNPulse
Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein has received a grant of $20,000 from The Aftermath Project, an organization that supports documentary photography that tells post-conflict stories. Lichtenstein received the grant, which is supported by the Foundation to P
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/11/20000-aftermath-project-grant-for-2012-awarded-to-andrew-lichtenstein.html
Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein has received a grant of $20,000 from The Aftermath Project, an organization that supports documentary photography that tells post-conflict stories.
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NPPA Names Short Grants Program Winners
The 2011 Short Grants winners are Victor J. Blue, Gabriela Bulisova, Mary F. Calvert, Matt Eich, and Mark Ovaska.
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Brad Vest Named College Photographer Of The Year
“As a student, he seems willing to push his skills to follow long-term projects, but he is not afraid to do daily assignments or simple reportage. In the last two years I have watched him take on daily ‘event’ work for the college. He does this daily work with the same energy that he brings to his personal projects. He’s a visual storyteller.”
