Category: Competitions

Billy Weeks Wins the 23rd Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Contest

Totally inside baseball here, but Billy Weeks has been a huge supporter of my students and has become a very dear friend, so when he posted on Facebook that he had won the 23rd Annual Gordon Parks International Photography Contest I just had to share it with you guys. Billy is a true community journalist – he cares about communities...

NPPA Announces Short Grants for Community Stories

FYI … DURHAM, NC (July 8, 2011) – The National Press Photographers Association is pleased to announce the 2011 Short Grants program, five grants of $3,000 each that will be awarded to support photojournalists who are creating compelling picture stories in their communities. “Budgets for newsrooms are shrinking and one of the greatest victims is the community photo story,” NPPA...