Category: Contests

  • Adorama Camera sponsors SportsShooter Student Portfolio Contest

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    I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen or heard of a student photo contest that has a prize list like this.

    Thanks to our newest sponsor, Adorama Camera, the SportsShooter.com Student Portfolio of the Year contest has a suite of impressive prizes. We are calling this list “The Essentials,” and it contains all the tools to have when you’re starting to get serious about photography.

    As the Grand Prize awarded to the 2008 Student Photographer of the Year, one talented student member of SportsShooter.com will win the whole list.

    Check it out here.

  • WKU Student Jeff Giraldo Wins Hearst Photojournalism Shoot-Out

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    Student photojournalist Jeff Giraldo of Western Kentucky University is this year’s top winner in the William Randolph Hearst National Photojournalism Championship held annually in San Francisco, CA.

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  • Results for 2008 | The Press Photographer's Year 2008

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    With a 25% increase in the entries this year, the jury spent two long days working through the 7,500 photographs, both in slideshow form, and as C-type prints, laid out on the huge Olivier foyer floor at the National Theatre.
    A final edit of 146 photographs has been made and 13 prizes have been awarded. What follows is the winners list and a web gallery of the complete edit that will feature in the book and exhibition. This is “The Press Photographer’s Year 2008”.

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  • Justin Maxon named 2007 SportsShooter.com Student Photographer of the Year

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    “Truly, it feels surreal to win this award and others I have been fortunate enough to win,” said Maxon, after being notified that contest judged selected his portfolio for the top spot. “I have envisioned being a photographer since I was young. Even though I have a long road ahead with many twists and turns, it feels like I am starting to realize my aspirations.”

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  • Photographer Carolyn Drake And Writer Ilan Greenberg Win Lange-Taylor Prize

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    Photographer Carolyn Drake and writer Ilan Greenberg have won the 2008 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize.

    They will receive $20,000 in support of their project “Becoming Chinese: Uighurs in Cultural Transition,” which will study the Muslim ethnic group in China facing pressures to assimilate with China’s Han culture. About 10 million Uighurs live in China.

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  • World Press Photo Awards Days – Canon Professional Network

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    Audiences packed the Felix Meritis cultural centre in central Amsterdam to see the winners’ presentations. Boldwill Hungwe (2nd prize, Spot News Singles), a news photographer from Zimbabwe, revealed that his image of an opposition rally in the beleaguered country (above, top) was taken on a digital compact camera, because neither he nor the paper he works for could afford a digital SLR camera.

    “I knew that the camera couldn’t shoot a sequence so I had to wait for the right moment,” he told CPN. “Luckily I got the one that told the story the best.” He added that working as a local newspaper photographer in Zimbabwe is difficult due to the restrictions and threat of torture.

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  • A Photo Editor – SPD Photography Winners 2008

    Here are the GOLD winners from last weekends SPD awards in Photography.

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  • Woman Breastfeeding Fawn Wins Photo Award

    HIMANSHU Vyas has won the IFRA Gold Award for News Photography for this picture of an Indian woman from a village near Jodphur breastfeeding a fawn and her daughter at the same time.

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  • Hussin wins Hearst multimedia competition

    Photojournalism students Tim Hussin and Jeremiah Stanley placed first and 12th, respectively, in the inaugural Hearst Foundation intercollegiate multimedia competition, professor John Freeman announced.

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  • State of the Art: ICP Infinity Award Winners Announced

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    Award season continues apace, and the next big show will occur one week from tonight when the International Center of Photography presents its coveted Infinity Awards for 2008. But the word is already out about who’ll be receiving prizes this year.

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  • The Travel Photographer: John Stanmeyer: Malaria: NG Award

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    The photojournalism award, which honors John Stanmeyer’s photographs in the “Bedlam in the Blood: Malaria also names Senior Editor David Griffin, Deputy Director Susan A. Smith, Design Director David C. Whitmore and Senior Photo Editor Sarah Leen. The article ran in the July 2007 NGM.

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  • State of the Art: Venessa Winship Named Sony's First Photographer of the Year

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    Clearly I should already have known who Vanessa Winship is. I mean, she won the first World Press Photo award ever given in the arts category; she’s exhibited at Visa pour l’Image, Les Recontres d’Arles, and the Leica Gallery; oh, and did I mention…she makes beautiful, beautiful images.

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  • State of the Art: Seven Photographers Win Guggenheim Awards

    The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of it Fellowship grants for 2008. Among the 190 awards, seven went to photographers

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  • And the Overseas Press Club Awards Go To….

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    Last night at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Manhattan, the Overseas Press Club handed out its awards for journalism from abroad. The OPC awards include four very coveted photojournalism prizes.

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  • Getty's John Moore Wins Robert Capa Gold Medal

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    Tonight senior staff photojournalist John B. Moore of Getty Images is being presented with the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal award from the Overseas Press Club of America at the organization’s sixty-ninth annual awards dinner in Manhattan.
     
    The Capa award is given by the OPC in recognition of the “best published photographic reporting from abroad, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.” It honors the legacy of the great war photographer Robert Capa of Magnum Photos.

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  • Jonas Bendiksen Wins $50,000 National Geographic Grant

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    The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth.

    The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered the fastest growing metropolis in the world.

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  • Sun shooters bag awards Edmonton News- Sun shooters bag awards

    Edmonton Sun photo editor Tom Braid couldn’t be prouder of his staff.

    “I’m just proud to be part of the team,” Braid said yesterday after Sun shooters walked off with an armload of hardware at the News Photographers Association of Canada’s second annual national pictures of the year awards in Vancouver.

    Jason Franson won first place in Feature/Enterprise category for his entry entitled “Swinging soldier.” Colleague Darryl Dyck placed second in the category with “Trees and skaters” and Tim Smith earned honourable mention for “Swimmer.”

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  • Detrick Wins Top Honors in Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest

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    Chris Detrick’s photograph of a Pepperdine University basketball player gouging the eyes of an opponent, won top honors in the Sports Shooter Newsletter Annual Contest.

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  • SportsShooter.com – Contest: 2007 Winners

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  • A Bee photographer's work garners more honors

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    Bryan Patrick picked up another Photographer of the Year trophy the first weekend in April, and a few days later The Bee’s front page reminded us why.

    Patrick’s photos from the Olympic torch relay and protests in San Francisco on April 9 stood out as they often do: for storytelling and technical excellence, but even more for showing the news as you would have seen it had you been on the scene.

    Check it out here.