National Geographic magazine’s Web site, http://www.ngm.com, has launched an online version of the popular “Your Shot†page, where National Geographic photo editors feature two reader-submitted photos in the magazine every month. Currently, both photographs are chosen by editors at National Geographic, but, starting in October, Web users will have the power to choose one of the reader-submitted photographs that appear on the magazine’s “Your Shot†page.
Each week, visitors to ngm.com can vote on a gallery of images from the prior week. At the end of the month all votes will be tallied, and the photograph with the highest cumulative ranking will be published in an upcoming issue of National Geographic magazine. Viewers can vote for each week’s images one time only.
By entering National Geographic’s online Daily Dozen contest you could get your photo published on the magazine’s “Your Shot†page.
Contests
Photography Masters Cup is a global online awards show recognising excellence in colour photography, one of the world’s most prestigious online photography awards, run by International Color Awards. There have been over 15,000 entries from 69 countries split into categories. The jury was made up of influential art directors, agencies, editors, galleries and publishers from the worlds of photography, advertising and entertainment, who decided to give the big award to Carol Walker, USA, for “Giraffe’s First Kiss”, and, the second place to George Logan, UK, for his eagle photo.
More winning photos and informations.
Photographers have until November 15, 2007, to postmark applications for the next two $20,000 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography, to be announced in February 2008.
Grant application and submission guidelines, plus additional information on previous winners, their projects and the judges can be found at http://www.gettyimages.com/editorial-grants. Applicants must include a written proposal of 550 words or less explaining the scope, significance and journalistic merit of their chosen project, along with a supporting portfolio of between 30 and 60 images of their previous work.
Each year, Getty Images awards five grants totaling $100,000 to fund, inspire and support the best global talent in photojournalism. Two grants are awarded in February and three in September.
Each grant consists of $20,000 as well as project execution support from Getty Images photo editors.The following panel of independent judges will review all applications and select the two grant recipients:
· Simon Barnett, Director of Photography, Newsweek
· David Griffin, Director of Photography, National Geographic
· Alison Morely, Program Chair, International Center of Photography
· Rosanna Sguera, Photojournalism Editor, Vanity Fair
Good Luck everyone!
Tags: photography grants, Getty Editorial Grants, Editorial Photography, Editorial Photography Grants
Brooklyn Art Project is helping an interior design firm source street art photography for permanent installation in a Manhattan retail location. To have your work considered, upload it to Brooklyn Art Project and tag it “streetart7†until 9 October.
They’re looking for images that are:
* Visually engaging
* Metaphorical
* G-rated
* Hopeful
* Upbeat
* Include street elements (brick, concrete, weathered paint, etc.)
Photographs should be well shot, well composed and final versions will need to be provided at a high resolution. Payment will be made for all images selected. Work that is selected for the project will also be featured on Brooklyn Art Project.
Link to the competition
Tags: photo competition, photo contest, photography competition, street art photography, Street Art Photography Competition
Clothes Show Live is continuing its support for young fashion and design talent with the return of the second ever Young Fashion Photographer of the Year Competition in association with Nikon. This year’s competition invites budding 16-25 year old fashion photographers from across the UK to create a picture that encapsulates the historical era ‘Cool Britannia’, a term coined to sum up the mood in Britain during the late 1990s which was closely associated to the fashionable London scene, the Britpop music movement and the early years of the New Labour government of Tony Blair. Revisit this era and use your imagination and photographic skills to create and shoot an image which demonstrates what Cool Britannia means to you in 2007. The closing date for entries is 17th October 2007.
A panel of judges will choose the ten best entries whose work will then be displayed at Clothes Show Live 2007 – which runs at the Birmingham NEC between 7th and 12th December 2007.
The overall winner will receive £2000 prize money, a one week placement with a top photographer (I’m interested in this kind of prizes), £1000 worth of Nikon photographic equipment and a VIP lunch at the show for the winner and 3 friends (yamy…).
The runners-up will have their work displayed at the show, plus will get the opportunity to take their own pictures in the photography pit at the fashion theater on the day of the competition.
More informations here.
Tags: Clothes Show Live, Young Fashion Photographer of the Year, fashion photography competition, photo contest
For this contest, entrants don’t have to be pros or use high-tech equipment; submissions can be taken on camera phones. The judges can spot an inspired picture no matter how it’s taken – even if you draw a quick sketch of your ideas, or write them on a piece of paper.
Winners will feature in a national exhibition. The Fresh Perspectives competition was inspired by company founder William Grant, an innovator who created the first ever blended Scotch whisky, therefore, there are loads of exciting prizes to be won, including a luxury weekend trip to the Scottish Highlands where you’ll get to visit the famous Whisky Grant’s distillery and sample their delicious range of blends. Runners up won’t be left empty handed, but with a year’s supply of Grant’s whisky.
To enter the contest just email your photo and contact details or post them to: Fresh Perspectives Comp, touch pr, 229 The Broadway, London, SW19 1SD.
Tags: photo competition, photo contest, fresh perspectives competition
Both amateur and professional and from all parts of the globe are expected to enter the International Wildbird Photographer Awards 2007 (edition nr. 5) by October 31, 2007.
The prize fund is exceeding £10,000 and the winner of each category will go forward to the Grand Final to decide who will be awarded the title of International Wildbird Photographer 2007 and the £1,500 cash prize.
Take a look at the following categories and prepare to send your shots before October 31, 2007:
BIRDS IN BRITAIN
BIRDS OF THE WORLD
BIRDS IN FLIGHT
BIRD BEHAVIOUR
BIRDS IN THE LANDSCAPE
BEST AMATEUR
BEST DIGISCOPED IMAGE
BEST PORTFOLIO
Tags: photo contest, wildlife photography, photography contest, photo competition
The grand-prize winner of “One City, Many Destinations†is….
Konstantino Hatzisarros with an image of two young monks in a Burmese temple.
“Inside the issue, Hatzisarros speaks about Burma’s exotic beauty, and how visiting the city of Mingoon’s many temples and monks last year, he stopped in a stairway to rest an injured foot. He looked up to find the scene captured in the winning photo unfold before his eyes—and camera lens.” – from the press release.
The contest had more than 4,000 entries and the big prize offered was a Leica M8 professional camera, a trip for two to any W Hotel in North America and a gift certificate to Calumet Photographic.
CITY Magazine, the 2004 National Magazine Award winner for Best Photography and the 2007 National Magazine Award winner for Best Photo Portfolio, will publish the best entries in October Issue: The Fall Travel Issue. “These images capture the essence of a city while taking readers on a photographic journey around the world, from a rainy day in Paris to the streets of Calcutta to the picturesque Cook Islands to the Great Pyramids of Giza.”
Tags: one city many destinations, photo contests, Konstantino Hatzisarros, city magazine
The Garden Photographer of the Year 2008 competition is now calling for entries in the following categories:
My Garden
Garden Views
Plant portraits
Life in the Garden
Trees
With thousands of pounds worth of cash and prizes up for grabs, this is a unique opportunity for entrants to have their photographs exhibited for the four summer months of 2008, alongside some of the world’s most talented photographers in the gardening and landscape world. Several hundred thousand visitors will see the top one hundred pictures at a purpose-built outdoor exhibition at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
You can enter single images or themed portfolios. There will be a new special award for Young Garden Photographer of The Year (under age of 16) supported by Chris Collins, the BBC Blue Peter Gardener. The winning images will be displayed from May to September 2008.
Closing date for submissions is 31st January 2008 (Online entry at http://www.gpoty.org).
Professional photographers wishing to photograph at Kew Gardens should contact pr@kew.org to obtain a photography permit.
Tags: photography contest, garden photographer of the year, photo contest, photography competition
Sadly, in the world of arts, and most of all in photography, copyright rules are often broken. The most recent and shocking example happened at the Microsoft’s 2007 Future Pro Photo Competition. This big contest was won by a Chinese professional shooter named Lai Yuning.
After the winning picture was nominated, the photographer was found guilty and disqualified. As a result, Paul D. Van Hoy II of Rochester has been named the new Grand Prize winner for his photo “Apocalyptic Summerâ€.
Tags: contest, copyright violation
