Category: Competitions

Start getting your proposal together, the Alexia Foundation will start accepting proposals on Nov. 15. CALL FOR ENTRIES: ANNOUNCING THE 2014 ALEXIA FOUNDATION GRANTS The Alexia Foundation is pleased to announce that it will begin accepting applications for its 2014 Professional and Student Grants starting Nov. 15, 2013. The deadline for submissions for the Professional Grant is 2 p.m. Jan....

As a heads up, getting close to the opening of entries for the 2014 White House News Photographers Association’s Student Contest. Rules will be posted in early November, but take a look at past winners to see what it’s like.

Sebastian Anthony over at ExtremeTech (a site I'd never heard of until moments ago) has a post up claiming the already-questionable World Press Photo winner may have been faked. Several questions have already been raised about Paul Hansen's winning image from Gaza, but most have been about the amount of toning involved.  

Some of the big awards have been announced … Photojournalists of the Year: RJ Sangosti of The Denver Post was today named the National Press Photographers Association’s Best Of Photojournalism 2013 Photojournalist of the Year (Larger Markets), and David Weatherwax of The Herald, in Jasper, IN, was selected as the Photojournalist of the Year (Smaller Markets). Picture Editors of the...

Congrats to the Associated Press’ Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and to freelancer Javier Manzano whose image, transmitted by Agence France-Presse, won for Feature Photography.