Rangefinder Tuesday October 18, 2022
The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International organization has announced it is “pressing pause” on its Honors of Excellence photography competition until 2024 as it evaluates how the program can evolve to provide more value to photographers, both educationally and creatively, reports Rangefinder. (Both Rangefinder and WPPI are owned by the events-focused company EmeraldX, notes PetaPixel.) The 30-year-old Honors in Excellence program included The Annual 16 x 20 Print, Album, and Filmmaking Competitions. WPPI’s organizers say the program only reaches a fraction of the wider WPPI community.
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Siena International Photo Awards Tuesday October 18, 2022
Urban foxes, bees and wildfire: those are the subjects of some of the winning images from the 2022 Siena International Photo Awards, notes The Guardian, which recently published a portfolio of the prize-winning pictures. Greek photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis takes the top prize for his photo “Woman from Evia,” which shows an 81-year-old woman, Kritsiopi Panayiota, in distress as a wildfire approaches her house in the village of Gouves, Greece, on 8 August 2021, during the hottest weather in Greece in 30 years.
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Affirmation Arts Tuesday October 18, 2022
On October 27, the Bronx Documentary Center will host its first in-person Photo Auction Benefit since 2019. The event will take place at Affirmation Arts in Manhattan (523 W 37th St.). “The Photo Auction Benefit will feature signed prints and books from internationally renowned photographers, as well as documentary images from the BDC community of emerging photographers,” notes the organization. Funds raised from the event help the Bronx Documentary Center bring free exhibits, after-school programs, fellowships, neighborhood events, and more, to our South Bronx community.
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 18, 2022
In 1958, a chemical engineer at Standard Oil in Richmond, California, started taking photos as an escape from his dreary work days. Soon, the camera became the center of Chauncey Hare's life, and a
tool for awakening his political consciousness. The acerbic images Hare made of Americans toiling in offices captured, as he put it, "the dominion of working people by multinational corporations and … Read the full Story >>
