Category: Contests
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Magnum Blog / The Magnum Expression Award
It clearly is award time at the moment. After announcing Burn Magazine’s grant and the “A Taste for Life Competition” within the last two weeks, here is yet another one:
The Magnum Expression Photography Award was established by Magnum Photos and HP with the goal of raising awareness and inspiring change through campaigns using photography as an expressive medium. Its mission is to discover and illuminate compelling documentary photography employed in innovative ways to affect social awareness and propel humanitarian compassion.
The inaugural theme for the award is Communities.
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Matt Eich is 2008 SportsShooter.com Student Photographer of the Year
Matt Eich, a student from Ohio University, has been selected as the 2008 SportsShooter.com Student Photographer of the Year by a panel of judges gathered together at the Adorama Camera Building in New York City, Thursday, February 26, 2009.
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POYi Global Vision Award
Winner
Balazs Gardi, VII Network
“THIRST” Water is life, and since the earliest days of human civilization, it has also been the source of conflict. As global supplies of fresh water diminish, and human population grows, the tensions surrounding access to water are rapidly amplifying. -
Bruce Named WHNPA Photographer of the Year for 4th Time
Washington Post photographer Andrea Bruce has been named 2009 Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. It’s the fourth time Bruce has won the award.
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We're Just Sayin: In Harmony
One I liked, and the judges did too (1st Place/Sports Action: Korea/Cuba Olympic Baseball)
I joined the WHNPA about twenty years ago, and over those years have won a few individual category awards, but never the P.O.Y. The real advantage to entering contests, as it happens, is not the rewards you might win – for they are fleeting, indeed, but that it gives you a chance, nay, forces you, to look at last year’s work and really analyze it in a critical and self-mirroring way. -
POYi Presidential General Election winners posted
Just in case you aren’t sick of seeing photos from the campaign of McCain and Obama…
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FLDS photo wins POYi award « City Limits
UPDATE: This photo is by Jay Janner, not me!
This photograph I made of a young FLDS girl waiting to be reunited with her parents recently won an Award of Excellence in the General News Reporting category in the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) photojournalism contest.
