Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012 Contest!!!

Eric Beecroft just circulated this amongst the instructors, so here is the fresh news! You can win ONE FULL FREE TUITION TO THIS YEAR'S FOUNDRY PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP in CHIANG MAI, THAILAND.  Winning=ONE  free tuition AND an invite to the pre workshop faculty and staff private dinner.  HOW TO PLAY: (read and keep the rules or you'll be disqualified) 1. You may post ONE PHOTO TOTAL on the Facebook Foundry Workshop Page. Thats one photo, over the 10 day span of the contest.  2. The theme is 'Home.'  You can interpret that however you wish. There is no trick or secret, we aren't...

Friday, February 10, 2012

POV: My Take On The World Press Photo Of 2012

Photo  Samuel Aranda-Courtesy World Press Photo Well, the results were in from the World Press Photo 2012 contest, and it was Samuel Aranda who won the coveted title of World Press Photo of the Year 2012 award with his photograph of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen. Much has been said and written about whether this photograph deserved the award or didn't, and various opinions from respected photographers, editors and the like, literally flooded newspapers, websites...

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Fifth Annual FCCT Photo Contest 2011

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand and OnAsia, one of the leading photo agency in Asia, are soliciting participations in the Fifth Annual FCCT Photo Contest. All photos must be taken in the Asia-Pacific region, and photographic submissions in the following four categories will be accepted:* Spot news: for the best single image photograph taken at a news event in the Asia-Pacific region. No more than five photographs per photographer may be submitted in this category.* Feature photography - for the best single-image non-news "feature" photograph taken in the Asia-Pacific region. No more than five photographs per photographer may be submitted...

Friday, July 8, 2011

Oskar Barnack Award 2011: The Winners

Leica announced the 2011 winners of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, and produced an 18 minute movie of their work. The movie was presented at the Arles Photo festival of 2011. Jan Grarup received the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2011 for his Haiti Aftermath series and Jing Huang won the Newcomer Award 2011 for his photo set titled Pure of Sight. "Regular readers of The Travel Photographer's blog won't be surprised. I am not moved by most of the photo essays that won the Oskar Barnack Award 2011." I've watched this movie three times, and readily confess that the majority of the photo essays left me indifferent, and even puzzled. I found that the exceptions were the two projects by Jan Garup; the Haiti Aftermath and Darfur (at the end of the clip) and a poignant photo essay by Carsten Stormer...

Saturday, February 19, 2011

POYi: Adrees Latif: First Place Freelance

Photo  Adrees Latif/Reuters I'm gratified that one of the photographs that I deemed to be outstanding last November , has just won its photographer first place in the 2011 POYi's Freelance category. Adrees Latif, a Pakistani photographer with Reuters, has been awarded Photographer of the Year Freelance/Agency with his excellent photograph made during relief supplies being delivered to flooded villages in the Muzaffargarh district of Punjab in Pakistan. I'm also really "chuffed" that the work of non-Western photojournalists/photographers are recognized in such a manner. Recognition has been long in coming for such professionals, but...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

In Focus: The Atlantic's New Photo Blog

Photo AP Photo/Altaf Qadri-All Rights Reserved Another great addition to the stable of newspaper/magazine photo blogs is The Atlantic's In Focus whose editor is Alan Taylor (previously with Boston Globe's The Big Picture). It recently featured the photographs which won recognition at the World Press Photo Contest 2011. The top honor went to Jodie Bieber for her image of Bibi Aisha, a disfigured Afghan woman, taken for Time magazine. However it being shown on the magazine's cover spoiled its impact insofar as I'm concerned...it was a blatant use of photography as propaganda since it was accompanied by the title of  What Happens If We...

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Lonely Planet's 100 Million Competition

Photo LP's 100 Million Competition/Sreesailam Pasupula -All Rights ReservedLonely Planet's competition celebrating its 100 millionth guidebook has ended, and the winning entry was this lovely photograph by Sreesailam Pasupula which features five women on a performance stage at the famous Pushkar Mela.The competition received over 130,000 photos from around the world, and some of the editors' favorites are featured here.The Telegraph newspaper in the UK also published results of the competition.Many of the photographs featured by LP are really very well chosen, and I couldn't help noticing that 13 of the 55 photographs that are featured are of...

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Best Of Photojournalism: Dhiraj Singh

It gives me singular pleasure to learn that Dhiraj Singh was awarded Honorable Mention (Feature Audio Slideshow) in the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism 2010 for his My Name Is Dechen.Dhiraj attended my MultiMedia class at the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Manali last summer, and not only received a standing ovation on showing his audio slideshow (Soundslides), but was also awarded Top Award For Photography by the workshop's instructors.A well-deserved honor to this immensely talented photographer and photojournalist...and he's a very nice guy as well.I don't think Dhiraj will mind me plugging the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in this...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

POYi: 67th Annual PJ Competition

Pictures of the Year International (POYi) is to launch its 67th annual competition in documentary photography, multimedia, and visual editing.POYi plans to release a preview of the 2009 "Call for Entries" on Tuesday, Dec. 8, offering an overview of all the contest categories and guidelines. Online registration and the entry uploading platform will be available at POYi's website on Friday, Dec. 18 and will conclude on Friday, Jan. 15.The judging period will take place from Feb. 14 through March 5, and in June the POYi Exhibition, Education, and Awards Program will be at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.(via The Cli...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Nikon Photo Contest International 2009

Photo  Maung Maung Gyi-All Rights Reserved Photo  Danny Ghitis-All Rights Reserved The Nikon Corporation recently announced winners of the Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009. This year's theme, "At The Heart of the Image," drew over 51,000 entries by over 18,000 entrants from 153 countries and regions. The judges were professionals working internationally in various photographic fields, most of whom were from Japan, with Ami Vitale, Alptekin Baloglu and Claudia Hinterseer. The judges selected a total of 34 winners: one Grand Prize winner and one NIKKOR 75th Anniversary Award winner, in addition to the 1st, 2nd and...

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Lens Culture Photo Contest

Lens Culture International Exposure Awards seeks to discover, recognize, reward and promote talented, new and emerging photographers from around the world, so it's looking for exciting images from every continent, and from diverse points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, street photography, poetic, personal, abstract and human. An international jury of photography experts will review and judge every photo submitted. Four winning photographers will each earn cash prizes  plus photo features in Lens Culture, giving them access and broad exposure to an enthusiastic, influential worldwide audience. Additionally, 25 photographers...

Sunday, July 12, 2009

ViewBook Photostory Contest

Viewbook PhotoStory 2009 seeks to challenge conceptual and documentary photographers around the world to create compelling stories with a linear series of photographs in an online gallery. The annual online competition seeks to find inspiring, high-quality photo stories within the photography community and bring them to a broad audience, and by so doing will provide a platform for emerging talents. There are already a number of submitted essays, which are quite interesting to look at.Viewbook PhotoStory is initiated and organized by Viewbook.com in association with GUP magazine, backed by Blurb, Workbook and others.As in all and every photography...

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Editor & Publisher Magazine: Photo Contest

Editor & Publisher Magazine, in association with Photo District News and IPNStock.com, is now accepting entries for the 10th Annual News Photos of the Year Contest.The grand prize winner gets $1,000, and other prizes include one-year subscriptions to PhotoServe.com, an $800 value. Winning entries appear in E&P's November issue and/or a special online gallery.The deadline for entries is Sept. 14, 2009. Lat year's Grand Prize winner was Shiho Fukada, a personal favorite photographer of mine, for her coverage of the Juyuan Middle School that collapsed during the earthquake in Sichuan province.As in all and every photography contests, I strongly...

Sunday, May 24, 2009

PDN Photo Annual 2009 Winners

PDN presented the winning images of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual, which were submitted by an international group of photographers. Apart from the obvious talent so amply displayed by all the photographers, I was gratified to see that most of the winners in the Web Sites category have used large images...and some like David Maitland and Dani Brubaker have used enormous images on their websites' landing pages.I've been advocating that larger is better for a long time. My previous posts can be found here, and on Photocrati as we...

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

2009 Sony World Photography Awards

 Wojciech Grzedzinski (Courtesy Sony World Photography Awards 2009) The Independent featured winners of the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards as revealed yesterday. Each of the photographers on the list, along with the runners-up in the professional categories, will be exhibited at the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, on Thursday 16 April. Of the 12 professional category winners, one photographer will be the recipient of the LIris D'Or, the Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. On the night they will be awarded $25,000. The winning amateur photographer, selected from the...

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

World Nomads & NGA-Film Scholarship

World Nomads, in conjunction with National Geographic Adventure, is announcing a scholarship for budding video documentary makers. World Nomads will fly the recipient of the scholarship to India between October 11th and October 25th 2008, and under the mentorship of documentary film-maker Trent O'Donnell, to shoot a "video documentary on the theme of community project travel and the impact it has on both the local community as well as the travellers that participate".As with all contests, make sure you carefully read all the conditions and fine print that govern this opportunity.World Nomads' Scholarship...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

PDN Photo Annual 2008

Photograph © Shiho Fukada-All Rights Reserved PDN has done a gorgeous job with its Photo Annual's website. No one will agree with all of the judges' choices, but most of the awards were certainly well deserved. I'm gratified that Shiho Fukada was recognized for her work on the brothels of Bangladesh, especially since I've often posted the work of this talented New York City-based photographer on The Travel Photographer blog.Here's PDN Photo Annual 2...

PDN Photo Annual 2008

Photograph © Shiho Fukada-All Rights Reserved PDN has done a gorgeous job with its Photo Annual's website. No one will agree with all of the judges' choices, but most of the awards were certainly well deserved. I'm gratified that Shiho Fukada was recognized for her work on the brothels of Bangladesh, especially since I've often posted the work of this talented New York City-based photographer on The Travel Photographer blog.Here's PDN Photo Annual 2...

World Press Photo Interviews

World Press Photo has posted 22 interviews with the 2008 (and 2007) award winning photographers, such as Tim Hetherington, Stanley Greene, Brent Stirton, Balzazs Gardi and Vanessa Winship among others.A very nicely produced feature with a small flash movie as an inset with each photographer's interview, and a loupe (a la Lightroom and Aperture) to magnify details of the photograph being discussed. Nice touch.WORLD PRESS PHOTO INTERVI...

World Press Photo Interviews

World Press Photo has posted 22 interviews with the 2008 (and 2007) award winning photographers, such as Tim Hetherington, Stanley Greene, Brent Stirton, Balzazs Gardi and Vanessa Winship among others.A very nicely produced feature with a small flash movie as an inset with each photographer's interview, and a loupe (a la Lightroom and Aperture) to magnify details of the photograph being discussed. Nice touch.WORLD PRESS PHOTO INTERVI...