And the Winner Is Marcellus Hall, of New York City, entered last week’s Book Prize Contest, which asked Where in New York Am I? He wrote:That photo is of the Snuff Mill Waterfall not far from Lorillard Snuff Mill (40°51′36″N 73°52′35″W) on the Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. In a subsequent email, he wrote:Actually I am a New … Read the full Story >>
It was a dainty setting that Edward Keating captured after 9/11. In the days following the terror attack, as Americans stared at image after image of planes colliding with buildings, people falling to their deaths, and the crumbled debris of the World Trade Center, Keating, a New York Times photographer, shot a close-up of a tea set, fully intact but entombed within a layer … Read the full Story >>
This week started with the world reeling in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Paris. The emotion of the moment was summed up by L'Oeil de la Photographie, a French web magazine and blog: The only way to respond to an attack on a way of life, it declared, was to continue living it. In other news, the winners of several major photo … Read the full Story >>
"A portrait is not a likeness," said Richard Avedon, famously. "The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." Today we look back at a number of the best portraits of 2015, as … Read the full Story >>
The rules of photojournalism have changed. This week the World Press Photo organization acknowledged that evolution by creating a contest without rules. The new competition, which will open in October 2017, will focus on "creative documentary photography." The aim, noted the organization in its announcement, is to reward "the most imaginative ways of telling stories available." To do so, the contest does away with … Read the full Story >>
This year's American Photography Open competition featured something extra. In addition to the Open prizes, our partner SanDisk is awarding prizes for the company's "Share Your World" photo competition. Today we can announce that photographer Claudio Piccoli is the top-prize "Share Your World" winner for his image "Flying Over the Sea," which features a very athletic canine named Zinga. The contest's runners up are … Read the full Story >>
The photo industry continues coming to grips with issues of diversity. This week we noted that World Press Photo has been accused by working photographers of "structural racism" and "performative gestures" after the announcement of a new managing director focused attention on a photo of the organization's all-white supervisory board. Noted Getty Images photojournalist Nana Kofi Acquah, "Many don't understand what institutional racism is, … Read the full Story >>
"Of rare elegance, culture and class, he was the absolute eye of photography and the craftsman of one of the most beautiful collections of photographs in the world." So noted L'Oeil de la Photographie of Pierre Apraxine, a self-taught connoisseur of photography who helped build the Gilman Paper Company Collection--an archive that encompassed not only the history of the medium but also the history … Read the full Story >>
Attention: Photographers of all ages, backgrounds and experience. For over 30 years, the American Photography juried competition has been a prestigious vehicle for pro photographers to show off their work and celebrate the art they love. This week we announced a new competition called American Photography Open 2018, which, as the name suggests, takes in a wider scope of the dynamic visual culture. This … Read the full Story >>
This was a week of winners and losers. Among the winners was Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici, whose dramatic photograph of the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey in December was named the Photo of the Year in the 2017 World Press Photo contest. Meanwhile, Los Angeles Times photographer Marcus Yam won 2016 Newspaper Photographer of the Year prize at the 74th Pictures of … Read the full Story >>
Coming up: Photoville 2014 This year’s edition of a new classic promises to bring photo buffs of all stripes together on Brooklyn’s sunny shores, starting next week. This crowd-pleasing photo destination is a pop-up, modular venue built from shipping containers re-purposed into galleries exhibiting a wide array of cutting-edge photography. The event epitomizes the work of United Photo Industries, which seeks to identify, harness, and conjure … Read the full Story >>
A number of big photography prizes were awarded during the week that was: Antonio Aragn Renuncio of Spain won the $120,000 grand prize in the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) competition in Dubai, while South African photographer Gideon Mendel won the $50,000 Pollock Prize for Creativity. Meanwhile, Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota was the winner of the 10th Foam Paul Huf Award, worth some $22,000. … Read the full Story >>
The end of the year was awards season for PPD. In October, we named the winner of the American Photography Open 2021 competition, our annual contest for photographers at every level shooting with all kinds of devises. This year's grand prize went to Indonesian photographer Hardijanto Budiman for his photograph of an anguished doctor at a hospital near Jakarta in the moments after lost … Read the full Story >>
There are only a few weeks left to submit your entries to the American Photography Open 2022 competition. In the meantime, we're spotlighting two more of this year's judges--New York-based photographer and Rolling Stone photo editor Sacha Lecca, and Elizabeth Krist, a photo editor at National Geographic for 20 year who also curated the "Women of Vision" exhibition and book and, taught at the … Read the full Story >>
After facing criticism from photographers, The World Press Photo Contest has updated entry rules for its Open Format category to exclude submissions for AI-generated imagery, The move came just days after the organization announced that such images could be entered into the category. Meanwhile, stock image site Adobe Stock announced it will crack down on AI-generated images that seem to show real, newsworthy events … Read the full Story >>
We've heard about AI-generated images fooling photo contest judges. This week we spotlighted a similar story, but with a twist: Suzi Dougherty, an actor who also works at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, made an iPhone photo of her son with two mannequins while visiting a Gucci exhibition. Happy with the photo, she entered it in a local competition run … Read the full Story >>
This week we were given some insights into the state of photojournalism in 2017, thanks to a report published by the University of Stirling and the World Press Photo Foundation. Researchers surveyed 1,991 photographers who entered the 2016 World Press Photo Contest to find out how they feel about their jobs. The takeaway: Photojournalists feel they're at risk, but generally they're happy with what … Read the full Story >>
Are art and science two sides of the same coin? Nikon recently announced the winners of its 2017 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition, led by Bram van den Broek of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, who took the first-place prize with his image of a skin cell expressing keratin. Besides being a stunning image, the shot is helping researchers understand the keratin protein, which is … Read the full Story >>
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has reported that former White House photographer Shealah Craighead was barred from documenting her boss, then President Donald Trump, while the riot was occurring. "The chief White House photographer wanted to take pictures because it was, in her words, 'very important for his archives and for history,'" noted Rep. Elaine Luria, a … Read the full Story >>
It was a week of big awards in photography: Swedish photographer JH Engstrm was given the EUR25,000 Leica Oskar Barnack 2015 Award for "Tout Va Bien," a project consisting of landscapes, portraits and diaristic snapshots. Meanwhile, a dozen photographers were shortlisted for the $105,000 Prix Pictet, which honors work that promotes discussion of social issues. And let's not forget the winners of the 2015 … Read the full Story >>
