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The World Photography Organisation is delighted to announce the renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky as the Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022. Widely regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers, Burtynsky is best known for his sweeping images of industrial landscapes and the wider environmental crisis.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 24 talented photographers who won AAP Magazine #21: Colors. Life is a stream of colors. Red, blue, yellow, and all the possible combinations in between surround us everywhere.

In the Leica Oskar Barnack Award's main category, it was Venezuelan photographer Ana María Arévalo Gosen's series "Días Eternos" that convinced the five-person jury. Her work was submitted by nominator Gonçalo Fonseca. In the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer category (for up-and-coming photographers up to 30 years of age), it was German photographer Emile Ducke with his "Kolyma - Along the Road of Bones" series, proposed by nominator Gaia Tripoli, that won the day.

All About Photo is pleased to present 'Lost War' by Lenka Klicperová. Part of the exclusive online showroom developed by All About Photo, this exhibition is on view for the months of November 2021 and includes twenty photographs from the series 'Lost War'.

All About Photo is pleased to present 'Anonymous Citizens' by Michael Ruggiero. Harvey Stein is the curator of the show that will be featured for the entire month of October 2021.

We’re delighted to reveal the names of the 26 talented photographers who won “AAP Magazine #20: Travels”. The many mind-blowing entries come from talented photographers who traveled around the world.

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) and State of the World photo competitions have now announced the winners of 2021. Visionary photographers from around the world, both professional and amateur, shared their unique perspectives and competed for international recognition as the next "PX3 Photographer of the Year", cash prizes, publication in the PX3 Annual Book, and inclusion in an exhibition to be shown in Paris.

Each year, top stories from around the world are awarded at Visa pour l'Image. Here is the list of the winners of the Visa d’Or, Grants and Prizes of the Visa pour l’Image festival 2021.

Many years later now that I am 63 years old, I have learned that it was in my early 20's when I had found my voice. It was then that I realized that my point of view had value and that I had something important to say and share with the world. I was capturing poignant scenes in our communities that I felt were significant for how they described the American culture, moments that captured American as well as universal sensibilities. Scenes that captured essential truths about people's hopes and their successes, their challenges and despair, their individuality and their relationships, during their day to day lives in our American communities. Scenes that defined an American way of life for me.

For this 19th edition of AAP Magazine, we were looking for submissions of works of art that explore composition and form as a fundamental aspect of the photographic aesthetic, be it pure visual formalism or in support of a thematic objective.

Tom Price is the Photographer of the Year, winner of All About Photo Awards 2021 - The Mind's Eye. My co-jurors Keith Cullen, Denis Dailleux, Stefano De Luigi, Monica Denevan, Claudine Doury, Ann Jastrab, Stephan Vanfleteren, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alison Wright and myself were impressed by his work 'Porter' taken from a series of surreal portraits, featuring 'relocated' porters from Kolkata, as a reflection on the experience of migrant workers.

These amazing photographers come from 13 different countries, their work reflects their personal aesthetic and unique approach to black and white photography. It was wonderful to discover so many great works and compelling pictures. Clearly black and white photography continues to hold a prominent place in our hearts and imaginations!

All About Photo is pleased to present Shepherds from Transylvania by Istvan Kerekes. Part of the exclusive online showroom developed by All About Photo, this exhibition is on view for the months of July and August 2021 and includes twenty photographs from the series Shepherds from Transylvania.

I was thrilled when asked to jury the MONO-KROMATIK exhibition for the PRAXIS Photo Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN, because that is where my heart still lies, it reminds me why I fell in love with photography in the first place. When I was in the midst of jurying the show, I could feel the rhythm of the pictures and how they worked together. I could also perceive how each individual image had its own voice.

From 1854 and BJP, OpenWalls Arles is an international photography award created in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles. OpenWalls offers a unique opportunity for both emerging and established photographers to be exhibited alongside Les Rencontres d'Arles - the photography industry's most prestigious annual event.

"The Lake" by Iranian photographer Masoud Mirzaei is the overall winner of the 2021 Creative Photo Awards, the international contest of creative and artistic photography of Siena Awards, an international visual arts festival. The photo was shot at Lake Urmia, the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, located between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan. It was selected among tens of thousands of images submitted by photographers from 137 countries. The Creative Photo Awards competition includes 17 categories for contemporary photographers, whose innovative approaches to photography challenge the viewer's expectations and offer surprise and delight at every turn. The winning images for each category will be showcased at the exhibition "I Wonder If You Can" during the Siena Awards Festival, from October 23rd to December 5th.

During the opening week of the 52nd edition of the Rencontres d'Arles festival, Kering and the Rencontres d'Arles will pay tribute to the career and commitment of the Russian-Ghanaian photographer Liz Johnson Artur.

All About Photo is pleased to present Since Seeing You by Ruth Lauer-Manenti. Part of the exclusive online showroom developed by All About Photo, this exhibition is on view for the entire month of June 2021 and includes twenty photographs from the series Since Seeing You.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won 'AAP Magazine #17: Portrait'. These amazing photographers come from 12 different countries, their work reflects their personal aesthetic and unique approach to portrait photography. A portrait is much more than just a physical representation of a person or its face. A good portrait must capture a privileged moment, when alchemy happens, allowing the photographer to capture the personality of the subject. The selected winners showcase innovative approaches to portraiture alongside striking traditional work.

All About Photo is pleased to present The Black Stories Project by Madison Casagranda. Part of the exclusive online showroom developed by All About Photo, this exhibition is on view for the entire month of May 2021 and includes twenty photographs from The Black Stories Project. Brooke Shaden, is the curator for this month's show.

Stunning! Not only the winning photos, but the standard overall was as always impressive. The 6th annual competition attracted an extremely high caliber of photographers from around the world. The winners come from 23 different countries and 5 continents. The winner and Photographer of the Year 2021 is Tom Price (UK) with his image “Porter” taken from a series of surreal portraits, featuring 'relocated' porters from Kolkata, as a reflection on the experience of migrant workers.

The World Photography Organisation is delighted to announce the overall winners in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2021. The Photographer of the Year title and accompanying $25,000 (USD) cash prize and a range of Sony's digital imaging kit is awarded to the esteemed documentarian Craig Easton (United Kingdom) for his series Bank Top. Also announced are the ten category winners alongside 2nd and 3rd place of the Professional competition as well as overall winners of the Open, Student and Youth competitions.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #16: Shadows". They come from 12 different countries and 3 continents!

For the second year in a row, three award recipients will receive $10,000, a Leica Q2 camera and mentorship to support a personal photographic project through the female perspective

The results of the 2020 Gomma Photography Grant are now live. The Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. Started in 2014, Gomma Grant has quickly obtained a reputation of being ethical and quality-focused, with an eye to spot fresh talents and encouraging those already in the spotlight. In addition to receiving cash grants the winning and shortlisted photographers can enjoy a huge amount of international exposure. Photographers that are recognized through the Gomma Grant are known to have evolved their career to a higher level, both professionally and artistically.

Sylvie Hugues, Artistic advisor, proposed 12 photographers to the members of the Executive Committee and comments her choices: "After nearly two centuries of existence, photography still carries its original ontological ambiguity, a duality that makes it both a highly refined technique and a commonplace practice: a clearly identified profession and an acknowledged art form. In 2021, more than ever, the inter-mingling of artists, uses, viewpoints and skills, is reflected in the Prix HSBC."

The World Photography Organisation is delighted to announce this year's category winners and shortlist in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021, recognising the best single images from 2020.

RED FLAG by the Latin American collective COVID LATAM wins the 2021 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo.

Brais Lorenzo Couto, Ilya Pitalev and Adam Gray named as winners of the News Photo Awards. Overcoming COVID photo contest. Photojournalists Diego Ibarra Sánchez, Josh Edelson, Tao Liang and Ilya Pitalev chosen as the winners of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's special prize.

The Black and White Minimalism magazine announced the winners of the Black and White Minimalist Photography Prize 2020. In this first edition of the Prize, despite the restrictions on the subject that only minimalist black and white photographs were accepted, 1470 photographs were submitted to the competition

The World Photography Organisation is pleased to reveal the finalist and shortlisted photographers in the Professional competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2021. Now in its 14th year, the Awards' Professional competition rewards a remarkable body of work for technical excellence and a fresh perspective on contemporary subjects.

The World Photography Organisation is delighted to reveal the National Awards winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021.

Lucie Foundation announces the fourth annual Lucie Photo Book Prize winners as well as the winners of Open Call: The Portrait Project. A portion of the proceeds from the Open Call will support World Central Kitchen, resulting in a donation of $20,973.27 to this worthy cause. Open Call is in partnership with Sony and in support of World Central Kitchen.

Lucie Foundation and the Lucie Board of Advisors announce that photographers Fabio Bucciarelli (professional) and Malike Sidibe (emerging) will each receive the 2020 Lucie Impact Award, given to photographers whose work has made a substantial impact during a given year. Previous winners include Pulitzer Prize- winning New York Times staff photographer Tyler Hicks (2019) and Getty Images award-winning photographer John Moore (2018).<

The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts is proud to announce its John Chervinsky Scholarship Award winner, Tavon Taylor. We are thrilled to honor the legacy of John Chervinsky with this award to emerging artists who share a vision and love of the craft of photography.

The 5th Prix Virginia was presented to the Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel during an online ceremony on Sunday January 17th 2021.

Ksystof Mozyro (United Kingdom) has been announced as the overall winner of the professional category, winning the title of Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2020 and earning $2000 prize money. His winning image, entitled Opponents, documents a both significant and emotional situation during the BLM protests.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #15: Streets". They come from 12 different countries and 4 continents!

Earth Photo, an international competition and exhibition created by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), rewards photographs and videos that document the natural world, its breath-taking beauty, and its ever-growing fragility.

Now in its 6th year, All About Photo Awards are an authoritative voice in the industry, celebrating the best contemporary photography from around the world, and giving vast exposure and opportunity to talented photographers. All About Photo supports the Awards to help the continued development of photographic culture by giving a global platform to today's talent. Photographers are judged anonymously by a panel of industry-leading judges.

With entries received across Africa, the Africa Photo Awards 2020 awards ceremony recently took place at the Keyes Art Mile in Johannesburg, South Africa. Local photographer and graphic designer, Hanli Smit walked away with the award for Photographer of the Year for her image Homage-to-Tretchikoff. Smit's images won two main categories: Fashion for Avant-Garde-Fashion-The-New-Normal, and Portraiture for Homage-to-Tretchikoff, with this image securing her the main prize

The photograph's power as a narrative tool is derived from the impression that what is captured within the frame is an accurate representation of what actually occurred at a specific moment in time. As complete or comprehensive as any narrative may appear to be, it will always be subject to a process of including some elements and excluding others. These inclusions and exclusion are a crucial part of what photographic storytelling is all about - What is being presented within the frame to the viewer - and what is being left out or left to the viewer's imagination.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #14: Colors". Life is a stream of colors. Red, blue, yellow, and all the possible combinations in between surround us everywhere.

Despite the cancellation of the exhibition of the Rencontres d'Arles Awards in Paris, due to the current health restrictions, Kering and les Rencontres d'Arles were determined to go ahead with the second edition of the Women In Motion Award for photography. With November being traditionally dedicated to photography, they are now delighted to present the 2020 Women In Motion Award to the outstanding photographer Sabine Weiss for her life's work.

The 2020 International Photography Awards has received more than 13,000 submissions from some of the most important photographers from around the world. The many mind-blowing entries in the Nature categories open windows to observe the Earth's unmitigated force with breathtaking photos.

Rossiya Segodnya media group's press service. The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest has announced the winner of the 2020 Grand Prix during an online ceremony held at the multimedia press center of Rossiya Segodnya media group which hosted the contest.

More than thirty war correspondents have gathered in Bayeux on October 9th and 10th to debate and award trophies in the following categories: photo, print, radio, television, grand format television, young reporter (photo) and video image. Three honorary awards have been attributed: the Regional prize for students and trainees of Normandy (television), the Public's Choice award (photo) and the Ouest-France - Jean Marin prize (print). Presided by Ed Vulliamy, the international jury of the 27th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict...

The award ceremony took place Tuesday 13 October 2020 at the Palais Galliera, Paris Fashion Museum, after the deliberations of a jury chaired by photographer Sarah Moon. The 2020 edition is marked by exciting new features. In addition to the exhibition produced by Picto and the poster campaign offered by JCDecaux, the "Winner of the Picto Prize for Fashion Photography" was presented with a Leica Q2 camera. Similarly, the winner of the 2nd prize, "Dotation 19M de la photographie des Métiers d'art", will collaborate with one of the eleven Houses brought together in the new 19M site, designed and conceived by CHANEL and dedicated to the Fashion Crafts.

This summer international photobank Depositphotos launched their first photography contest to support independent photographers in their artistic and professional pursuits. The theme of the contest was “Authenticity 2.0” to encourage participants to share their vision of authenticity, capturing candid moments in everyday life. In just one month and a half, 1884 photographers submitted their works to the contest and shared over 5,200 images under the hashtag #authenticity_is.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #13: Shapes"

The main prize of the 17th KAUNAS PHOTO festival's competition goes to the Italian duo for their work "Cronostasi" on the changed notion of time during quarantine.

Each year, top stories from around the world are awarded at Visa pour l'Image. Here is the list of the winners of the Visa d’Or, Grants and Prizes of the Visa pour l’Image festival 2020.

The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest, announces that the contest's international jury of leading photography experts, has selected the best entries from over 5,000 submissions. Young photojournalists from 75 countries competed in the contest this year.

In 2020, the 17th edition of KAUNAS PHOTO festival was planned to celebrate the periphery, the province, the outback, l'arrière-pays. The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight against it imposed new rules and conceptions, and KAUNAS PHOTO festival invited photographers to present works to KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2020 competition on the topic "Peripheral Visions”, aiming to look at what is on the margin, just across the window or the border that we can or cannot cross, to discover the spaces, places, lands, areas that usually were in the periphery of the vision. In 2020, the festival invites to rethink what became important, what was less so, what was taken for granted or simply undermined until now.

For this 12th edition of AAP Magazine, we received a record number of submissions from all over the world. The winning photographers come from 11 different countries and 4 continents.

Women Photograph is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2020 grants: the Women Photograph + Nikon grants of $5,000 have been awarded to Gabriella N. Báez, Sahar Coston-Hardy, Peyton Fulford, Roopa Gogineni, and Sandra Mehl. The Women Photograph + Getty Images Scholarship of $10,000 has been awarded to Tami Aftab. We received nearly 1,300 applications from women and non-binary photographers around the world - thank you to everyone who sent in proposals!

FotoDocument and Nikon are pleased to announce that the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award 2020 winner is Nicky Quamina-Woo. Honourable Mentions have been awarded to Solmaz Daryani (runner up), Fabiola Ferrero, Emily Garthwaite, Ana Caroline de Lima, Emilienne Malfatto, Nadège Mazars and Valentina Sinis.

Out of thousands of entries, these remarkable photographers come from around the world with 17 different countries being represented.

The 11th Carmignac Photojournalism Award on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)-was granted to Canadian-British photographer Finbarr O'Reilly.

We’re delighted to reveal the names of the 24 talented photographers who won “AAP Magazine #10: Portrait”. These amazing photographers come from 14 different countries, their work reflects their personal aesthetic and unique approach to portrait photography. After spending a lot of time looking at hundreds of submissions, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Editor of All About Photo, considered multiple unique and timely work. Many projects were worthy of winning, but in the end she chose to showcase innovative approaches to portraiture alongside striking traditional work. She was amazed by the quality and the wide range of work submitted.

Monica Denevan is the Photographer of the Year, winner of All About Photo Awards 2020 - The Mind's Eye. My co-jurors Elizabeth Avedon, Laurent Baheux, Alex Cammarano, Julia Dean, Ann Jastrab, Juli Lowe and myself were impressed by her work Across the River, Burma that won first place out of thousands of submissions. She also won 1st place for AAP Magazine 4: Shapes. Her ongoing series, "Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma," began in 2000. Since then, she has returned to many of the same small villages in Burma/Myanmar, making intimate photographs of fishermen and their families in the spare and graphic setting of the Irrawaddy River. She travels with a medium format film camera, one lens, and bags of film, working with natural light and making composed images. Once home, she makes photographic prints in her traditional darkroom.

The prestigious photo competition, All About Photo Awards - The Mind's Eye, organized by All About Photo is pleased to reveal the winning photographers of 2020

The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards coincide with Photo London, 14 - 17 May 2020, Somerset House, London. Now in its 35th year, The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have a long history of profiling talent, celebrating outstanding new publications alongside their authors and creators. At the heart of each edition of awards is a team of judges who select the Best Photography Book and the Best Moving Image Book from the past year. The 2020 judging panel brings together a broad spectrum of expertise and authority on the subjects and is comprised of writers, industry leaders, academics, and creatives.

The results of the 2019 Gomma Photography Grant are now live. The Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. Started in 2014, Gomma Grant has quickly obtained a reputation of being ethical and quality-focused, with an eye to spot fresh talents and encouraging those already in the spotlight. In addition to receiving cash grants the winning and shortlisted photographers can enjoy a huge amount of international exposure. Photographers that are recognized through the Gomma Grant are known to have evolved their career to a higher level, both professionally and artistically.

The World Photography Organisation is pleased to reveal the finalist and shortlisted photographers in the Professional competition for the Sony World Photography Awards 2020. Also included are details of new photographic projects by Sony Professional Grant2019 recipients. Works by both Professional competition finalists and Grant recipients will go on display as part of the Sony World Photography Awards 2020 exhibition at Somerset House this April.

The finalists exhibition of Arte Laguna Prize returns to the historic spaces of the Arsenale Nord in Venice. 120 works from all over the world are the finalists of the 14th edition of the competition, telling the current state of international contemporary art.

The Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. Started in 2014, Gomma Grant has quickly obtained a reputation of being ethical and quality-focused, with an eye to spot fresh talents and encouraging those already in the spotlight. In addition to receiving cash grants the winning and shortlisted photographers can enjoy a huge amount of international exposure. Photographers that are recognized through the Gomma Grant are known to have evolved their career to a higher level, both professionally and artistically.

Svetlin Yosifov is a freelance photographer based in Bulgaria. He won the 1st place for the AAP Magazine #9 Shadows with his work 'Mursi People'. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.

Applying for artist grants is a great way for photographers to complement their income to ease the financial burden that often comes as part of being a working artist. These grants help artists develop their projects with more freedom and help them dedicate their full attention to their creativity. Grants are usually very competitive but when awarded it gives the selected photographers not only financial relief but also recognition. Grants and funding for artists are key to help photographers pursue their visions, their dreams, their projects. Here's a quick look at a few grants worth considering if you are looking for a way to finance your work.

All About Photo has released the winners of the call for entry AAP Magazine#9 Shadows. The shortlisted include the top 25 photographers that were selected for their outstanding work. 199 photographers submitted more than 1600 images from all over the world.

The 2020 Sony World Photography Awards are now accepting entries. Check out some of the amazing pictures that have been submitted to this year's competition in the "Open" category. You still have until January 7, 2020 to submit your work in this competition category. Don't miss this opportunity, it is free to enter!

Working with the body in natural and urban landscapes - without assistants and without manipulation - Minkkinen's self- portraiture stands as one of genre's longest, nonstop continuities in the history of photography.

Produced by the World Photography Organisation, the internationally acclaimed Sony World Photography Awards are one of the most important fixtures in the global photographic calendar. The Awards are a global voice for photography and provide a vital insight into contemporary photography today. For both established and emerging artists, the Awards offer world-class opportunities for exposure of their work.

Our 5th edition of the All About Photo Awards invites photographers from around the world to submit their best work for consideration. In reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay, The Mind's Eye investigates the depth and thoughts behind each image.Prizes:Winners will receive $10,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition. The grand prize is $5,000, the 2nd prize is $2,000, the 3rd prize is $1,500, the 4th prize is $1,000 and the 5th prize is $500!All winners will have their work published/showcased on the website Lenscratch, Daylighted, All About Photo Winners Gallery and AAP Magazine "Special Edition All About Photo Awards 2020".

Vicky Martin is a fine art photographer based in the UK. She won the 1st place for the All About Photo Magazine #5 Colors with her work "Not in Kansas". We asked her a few questions about her life and work.

Fatma Fahmy, an Egyptian documentary and daily life photographer, born in 1991, living in Cairo, has been selected by an International Jury as recipient to the Daniele Tamagni Grant. Fatma's portfolio has been selected among over 100 submissions from 25 countries, offering evidence of the interest of the industry and the photo community to the Daniele Tamagni Grant and the scholarship at Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The results of the Call for Entry "Street" are now live! For this 8th edition of AAP Magazine we received more than 1900 images! It was wonderful to discover so many great works and compelling pictures. Selecting the winners was certainly not an easy task, but in the end I hope you will enjoy this collection of photographs. You will be able to discover the full portfolios when the magazine is published. In the meantime you can discover a sample of the 24 winning photographers that will be featured. Congratulations to all the photographers who submitted their work and of course to the winners!

Now in its sixth year, Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. Gomma Grant has obtained a reputation of being ethical and quality-focused, with an eye to spot fresh and undetected talents

Following the launch of the Leica Women Foto Project earlier this year - a platform dedicated to the expansion of diversity and inclusion in photography - Leica Camera USA is proud to announce the three recipients of the inaugural Leica Women Foto Project Award. From over 600 submissions across the United States, photographers Debi Cornwall, Yana Paskova and Eva Woolridge were selected by a prestigious panel of judges in the photography, art and entertainment industries to each receive $10,000 and a Leica Q2 to pursue a personal project that tells a story through the female viewpoint.

Production Paradise Spotlight Awards 2019 has released the shortlists of competitors in 13 categories in anticipation of the winners being announced. The shortlists include the top 10 photographers each commercial photographic category. Over 120 photographers and their imagery are on the shortlists from over 22 countries all chosen by a panel of esteemed judges.

Photography contests are a good way to show your work and of course to obtain the recognition every photographer is looking for. But photo contests are also a way to gain exposure and sometimes to win money. So what are the real photo contests worth entering if you are looking for monetary gains? We have created this list for you, with the exact cash prizes you can expect. The figures are the overall cash prizes, meaning that the first place winner will most likely earn less, but it gives you an idea of what you can expect even if you are not the winner. You can visit each websites to discover the other prizes you can win like exhibitions and publications. In this list we focused on the cash prizes only. But for example if a photo contest promises you a prize pool of $20,000 but the real cash prize is $10,000 (and the rest is equipment worth $10,000 for example), we chose to list the $10,000 cash price only so that you know exactly what the real numbers are.

Being asked to jury "The Poetry of Shadows" was a difficult but fascinating experience. Thank you for allowing me to discover so many incredible images; I was captivated by the stories you had to tell, your unique point of view and the intensity of your images. Mysterious, magical, intense, timeless, sometimes nostalgic... mastering the shadows in photography is an art in itself. It is a story in its own right, a unique form of expression. Thank you to everyone who submitted their work for showcasing the significance and beauty of photography.

We have put together for you this guide to the photography world's best photography contests to enter in 2019. Learn more about their prizes to help you decide which ones you should apply to.

Magnum Foundation and Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce Alex Potter as the recipient of this year's Inge Morath Award, a $5,000 production grant to support the completion of a long-term documentary project.

The Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest has published the shortlist of the 2019 winners. The competition jury, which included leading photographers and editors from world media outlets, chose the best pictures from the 6,000 works submitted. In 2019, photography professionals from 80 countries on all five continents contributed their images for the competition. All the shortlisted photographs are marked by a richness of the presentation and a depth of understanding of the topic.

The World Photography Organisation today names the overall winners of the prestigious 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. The coveted Photographer of the Year title was presented at a London ceremony to the Italian artist Federico Borella for his series Five Degrees. The work was praised by the jury for its sensitivity, technical excellence and artistry in bringing to light a global concern. The Sony World Photography Awards are a global platform for photography and provide a vital insight into contemporary photography today. For both established and emerging artists the Awards offer world-class opportunities for exposure of their work.

It was a privilege and an honor to be one of the jurors for this new edition of All About Photo Awards 2019. First of all, I would like to thank Elizabeth Avedon, Alex Cammarano, Laura Geiser, Henry Horenstein, Ann Jastrab, Maxim Panés, John Rankin, Anna Van Lenten and Tariq Zaidi for their patience and hard work. We received thousand of images images from around the world and it was a long and difficult task to select the images that would make it to the second round. After spending a lot of time watching the images over and over again we selected 729 images for the second round. The overall quality was amazing and many more photographers could have been featured in our winners' gallery but in the end I hope you like the ones we have selected. You will also be able to discover new portfolios in the upcoming months, some of them who are not in our winners list but who truly deserve to be showcased on All About Photo. Thank you to all the participants, I wish you all the best with your future projects and hope that you will send us more projects in the near future.

The World Photography Organisation announces artist Nadav Kander as recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at the Sony World Photography Awards.

The Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. The winners are now announced

Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas Named2019 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellows. The artists have each been awarded $20,000 to support new or ongoing projects that reflect and draw inspiration from the themes of representation and social justice in Parks' creative work. Each project will culminate in exhibitions at the Gordon Parks Foundation exhibition space in Pleasantville, NY in 2019. Awarded annually, the fellowships demonstrate the Foundation's commitment to advancing Parks' extraordinary vision and legacy of social change through the arts and humanities.

The 2018 Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers, both emerging and established, working among various genre. Started in 2014, Gomma Grant has quickly obtained a reputation of being ethical and quality-focused, with an eye to spot fresh talents and encouraging those already in the spotlight.

Character-based portraits and narrative-driven scenes are Kremer/Johnson's trademark. They won AAP Magazine#2 Faces and more recently the Lensculture Portrait Awards 2018. We asked them a few questions about their life and work.

JP Terlizzi is a visual storyteller who uses photography to explore themes of memory, relationships and identity. His series Raven's Point won First Place for AAP Magazine#1 Light. We asked him a few questions about his life and work.

Our fourth edition of the All About Photo Awards invites photographers from around the world to submit their best work for consideration. In reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay, The Mind's Eye investigates the depth and thoughts behind each image.Prizes:Winners will receive $10,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition. The grand prize is $5,000, the 2nd prize is $2,000, the 3rd prize is $1,500, the 4th prize is $1,000 and the 5th prize is $500!All winners will have their work published/showcased on the website Dodho Magazine, Be-Art Magazine, Daylighted, All About Photo Winners Gallery and AAP Magazine "Special Edition All About Photo Awards 2019".

The Gomma Grant has been going since 2014, and has picked up a reputation for finding cutting-edge and emerging work. It does award undetected photographers from around the world that work in various genres.

Fifty war correspondents have gathered in Bayeux on October 12th and 13th to debate and award trophies in the following categories: photo, print, radio, television, grand format television, young reporter (photo) and video image. Three honorary awards have been attributed: the Regional prize for students and trainees of Normandy (television), the Public's Choice award (photo) and the Ouest-France - Jean Marin prize (print). Presided by Christiane Amanpour, the international jury of the 25th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents has reached its verdict...

During their 10 September 2018 meeting in Paris, the Jury awarded Prix Virginia to the British photographer Cig Harvey, one of the twenty-one finalists preselected from 398 submissions received from 43 countries.

Each year, top stories from around the world are awarded at Visa pour l'Image. For the Visa d'or Paris Match News award and the Visa d'or feature award, the Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik award and the Figaro Magazine Lifetime Achievement Visa d'or award, picture editors and assistant picture editors make a selection from all reports seen over the past year (both published and unpublished), choosing four nominees per category.

What are the best photography contests out there? We have put together for you this guide to the photography world's best photography contests. Learn more about their prizes to help you decide which ones you should apply to.

It is important to choose your photo contest. If you search on the internet you will see that there are many photo competitions and that the first rule is to choose them well for avoiding some pitfalls.

Mysterious, intense, timeless, at times nostalgic, black and white photography is, to me, magical. These images remind me of why I fell in love with photography in the first place.

I am extremely humbled and very honored to have been awarded All About Photo's 2018 Photographer of the Year. Thank you, AAP and the Jury panel for recognizing my work.

It was a privilege and an honor to be one of the jurors for this new edition of All About Photo Awards 2018. First of all, I can't thank enough Liu Bolin, Eli Klein, Crista Dix, Marco Gualizzini, Elisabeth Mouchy, Ann Jastrab and Michael Itkoff for their patience and hard work. We received more than 4,200 images from around the world and it was a long and difficult task to select the images that would make it to the second round. After spending a lot of time watching the images over and over again we selected around 900 images from 362 photographers. The overall quality was amazing and many more photographers could have been featured in our winners' gallery but in the end I hope you like the ones we have selected. You will also be able to discover new portfolios in the upcoming months, some of them who are not in our winners list but who truly deserve to be showcased on All About Photo. Thank you to all the participants, I wish you all the best with your future projects and hope that you will send us more projects in the near future.

We are very pleased that Sandrine Hermand-Grisel will be jurying and curating this exhibition. She will select approximately 35 images for exhibition in the gallery, and 35 for our Online Gallery Annex.

Our first printed issue of AAP Magazine will feature the best projects showcasing the theme "Light". Light is what allows us to see. It is what shapes and colors every object, creates depth, mood and mystery. Daylight, candlelight, inner-light, traffic light... Play with light!

Guy Armitage, the CEO of Zealous, a London-based digital submissions platform for the creative community, set up the awards in response to the changing nature of Britain's relationship with Europe.

Filter Photo is pleased to announce Context 2018, our annual spring open call for lens-based work. This year the exhibition was juried by April M. Watson, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Black+White Photography magazine, in association with Fujifilm, are pleased to announce that Rachael Talibart is the Black+White Photographer of the Year 2018 with her dramatic image of a wild sea, shot at Newhaven on the south coast.

We're excited to announce the All About Photo Awards 2018 - The Mind's Eye! These Awards aim to discover and spotlight the world's best contemporary photographers. The Awards will culminate with a digital exhibition in San Francisco, worldwide media coverage, and career-changing exposure for the jury’s five winners as well as 20 jurors' picks in the merit gallery. Show your work today to our incredible jurors and get a chance to win $10,000 cash prizes!

Amazing moments, mystic summits, balancing acts of standstill and movement. The IMS Photo Contest 2017 honored at the seventh edition the most sensational mountain pictures at the International Mountain Summit (IMS) in Brixen. With six different categories the photographers had endless space for expressing their creativity. Fascinating are also the stories behind the winners' photos.

With great excitement, we announce the 2017 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners! Winners will be featured in Lenscratch Daily in the coming days and will also receive incredible prizes that will help move their careers forward.

After an open call for submission an international panel of leading photography professionals, including Martin Barnes (Senior Curator, Photographs, V&A), selected a shortlist of six impressive nominations from which Provoke and Anatomy of Sound were the final winners. The foundation awards prize money of £10,000 divided between both books

The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) congratulates the 53rd class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, with special acknowledgement to the U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Discover the images of the photographers that won the Call for Exhibition at A Smith Gallery with the theme 'Summertime'. It was a privilege to be able to share a glimpse of your summer vacations and in the majority of photographs to witness your children's joy and innocence.

Michael Weitzman's Best of Show image, "Giddy Up" still follows me through the space, its haunted headlights bobbing up and down on a dusky and dusty road.

The majority of this year's submissions were in color as were the winning images. Yet the idealism of yesteryear seems to be tarnished with all the events that are happening now in the world. The winning image by Italian photographer Marco Gualazzini features a man carrying a dead and bloodied hammerhead shark larger than him down a street lined with buildings in ruins. It is a mesmerizing picture from Somalia.

Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition is proud to announce the Overall Winner of the competition! Chosen from the category winners, Stian Nesoy, the Overall Winner, was announced live on stage at The Photography Show at the NEC, Birmingham on Saturday 18th March 2017. The photo also won the Light on the Land category.

RayKo Photo Center's 10th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show will include images from around the world by 89 different artists! There were over 5000 images submitted to the juried exhibition and we whittled that down to just under 100 pictures. No small task. Displayed here are just 1/3 of the images from the show (33 to be exact). They were taken with a multitude of cheap toy cameras with limited controls like the Diana, the Holga, Lubitel, an assortment of Lomo cameras, the Bluebird, some plastic Polaroid cameras, Ansco, Banner, the Brownie Hawkie, the Agfa Isoly and a slew of others you've never heard of or knew existed. (It's excited to see what rolls in from eastern Europe and farther afield.)

In reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay, The Mind's Eye investigates the depth and thoughts behind each image. Our second edition of the All About Photo Awards invites photographers from around the world to submit their best work for consideration.Prizes:Winners will receive $15,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition. The grand prize is $10,000, the 2nd prize is $2,000, the 3rd prize is $1,500, the 4th prize is $1,000 and the 5th prize is $500!All winners will have their work published/showcased on Lenscratch, ViewFind, Be-Art Magazine, Daylighted and All About Photo in 2017. A selection of entrants of particular merit will also be invited to display their work in the Winners Gallery of www.all-about-photo.com and on Daylighted.

Our second edition of the All About Photo Awards invites photographers from around the world to submit their best work for consideration. In reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay, "The Mind's Eye" photography competition investigates the depth and thoughts behind each image.$15,000 in cash prizes!

Well, it's happened again. Coming in under the wire, I just finished judging the latest round of Critical Mass finalists. A bit about the competition: Critical Mass is organized by the non-profit, Photolucida, which also hosts a biennial portfolio review in Portland, Oregon. Critical Mass is an annual online program that makes connections within the photography community.Photographers at any level, from anywhere in the world, submit a portfolio of 10 images. Through a pre-screening process, the field is narrowed to a group of 200 finalists who go on to have their work viewed and voted on by over 200 esteemed international photography professionals. I'm lucky to be one of these 200 jurors as it means I get the chance to view 200 projects that may potentially fit in with the programming in my gallery. From the finalist group, the Top 50 photographers are named and a series of awards are given, including at least one monograph each year. Photolucida publishes and distributes the award winner's publication, giving copies of the books to all participating photographers and jurors. I've been honored to exhibit the Critical Mass Top 50 show in past years as well as give solo exhibitions to some of the artists I've discovered while judging the competition. As I've just wrapped up looking at the 200 portfolios and while the images are fresh in my mind, I'd like to give a shout out to some of my highlights and surprises.

The winning images of the first annual juried photography awards hosted by All About Photo will be exhibited at the Jules Maeght Gallery in San Francisco May 17th - May 28th, 2016! The ten international jurors (Julia Fullerton-Batten, Sandrine Hermand-Grisel, Frank Horvat, Ann Jastrab, Ed Kashi, Jules Maeght, Klavdij Sluban, Keiichi Tahara, Ami Vitale, and Cara Weston) viewed and scored nearly 5,000 images for this inaugural competition. As one of the jurors, I was overwhelmed not only by the number of submissions, but also by the quality of the submissions. There were so many dynamic images from around the world that it was difficult to choose only 5 for top honors.

The YPA (Young Photographer Award) recognized May 14th at Venice Arts the exemplary portfolio produced by Andrea Abrego, an Advanced Studies Photography student from the non-profit organization Venice Arts.

I met Taylor Curry and Carson Sanders a few years ago when they were still undergraduate students at the Savannah College of Art and Design. They were both making some interesting pictures (Taylor was putting odd things like fish and dollar bills into the enlarger head instead of negatives to make cliché verre prints. He's still making great cameraless work. And Carson, the visual anthropologist, was and still is capturing the beauty of the American South as well as having his imagery be informed by various cultures, here and abroad.

Laura Moya and Laura Valenti have been the team behind the success of Photolucida and its annual competition, Critical Mass. Fearless leaders of their non-profit which supports and promotes the work of emerging and mid-career photographers, they are also accomplished photographers and curators.

RayKo's 9th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show is opening on March 9th from 6-8pm! China may have announced that they've stopped making the Holga (a plastic medium format camera with limited controls, a fixed focal length, and a unique and often quirky plastic lens), but artists are still churning out images from this toy camera and many others like the Diana, the Bluebird, the Brownie Hawkeye, the Ansco Pix Panorama, the Sprocket Rocket, and many others you've never heard of. Along with the 90 international artists juried into this competition, we will also be featuring the work of Gordon Stettinius, this year's chosen one!

The 21st edition of the HSBC Photography Prize was held in the HSBC Bank headquarters in Paris, France. The two winners are a Polish photographer Marta Zgierska for her project Post and a Danish photographer, Christian Vium for his project The Nomadic City. They have both won a monograph of their work published by ''Actes Sud'' as well as a traveling exhibition.

The three winners of the 4th edition of the "Prix Photo AFD" were chosen on January 12, 2016 during a ceremony at the Maison Europeenne de la photographie in Paris France. Launched in 2012, the "Prix Photo AFD" mission's is for photographers to raise public awareness about Southern countries' development.

Born in 1964 he lives and works in Marseille in the south of France as an independent photographer. He is a member of the agency Signatures and developed a personal documentary style because of his humanitarian approach and his commitment to social issues. His project "Welcome on Board" documents abandoned sailors, the Girls of Parlerme (2014) is a documentary about women dockworkers in Sicily, while his series "The bad reputation" focuses on a difficult technical college.

The Winners of the prestigious International Photography Awards were awarded at the Lucie Awards at Carnegie Hall, NYC on October 27, 2015. Discover a few images of this year winners.

At Fotofest in Houston last year, I had the pleasure of seeing Matthew Finn's project, Mother. I felt like I was being let in on a secret. Honored, I carefully flipped through the 27 years of gelatin silver prints. I mean, being obsessed with family, this was like a gift from heaven. (My own mother would light a cigarette and tell me where I could go if I even reached for my camera in her presence.) And here was Matthew, casually handing over nearly three decades worth of images from his intimate relationship with his mom. I leaned in closer, "Are there more?"

Congratulations to Matt Black who is the winner of the 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant! With his project "The Geography of Poverty," he spent almost twenty years trying to help raise awareness about the extent of poverty across the U.S.

All About Photo is pleased to announce the call for entries for our first ever photography awards: The Mind's Eye. The title of the competition and exhibition is a reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson's essay.

Our first ever All About Photo Awards invites photographers from around the world to unfold their visual emotions. In reference to Henri Cartier-Bresson's photo essay, The Mind's Eye outlines depth and thoughts behind each image.Prizes:Winners will receive $20,000 in cash awards, extensive press coverage and global recognition. The grand prize is $10,000, the 2nd prize is $5,000, the 3rd prize is $2,500, the 4th prize is $1,500 and the 5th prize is $1000! All winners will have their work showcased at Jules Maeght Gallery in San Francisco in May 2016. A selection of entrants of particular merit will also be invited to display their work in the Winners Gallery of www.all-about-photo.com.Discover our incredible International Jury:

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 is the leading international competition which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world. The selected images, many of which will be on display for the first time, explore both traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic portrait whilst capturing a range of characters, moods and locations. With over 2,200 entries, this year's Prize continues to uphold its reputation for a diversity of photographic styles submitted by a range of photographers, from gifted amateurs to photography professionals, all competing to win one of the four prestigious prizes including the £12,000 first prize. Four photographs have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, the major international photography award organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

As part of the 2015 Visa pour l'Image festival in Perpignan, the Fondation Carmignac has announced that the 6th edition of the Carmignac photojournalism Award will be awarded to Christophe Gin, in recognition of his work on the theme of 'Lawless areas in France'. The award was presented by Christophe Deloire, President of the Jury and Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders.

Five photographers working on long-term documentary projects about social issues were awarded $10,000 grants from Getty Images yesterday in France at the Visa pour l'Image festival. The five recipients are:Matt Eich, Mojgan Ghanbari, Javier Arcenillas, Souvid Datta and Salvatore Esposito.

The international award named 12 photographers whose work best represents this year's theme: 'Disorder'. Discover our 5 favorite portfolios from Brent Stirton, Pieter Hugo, Sophie Ristelhueber, Alixandra Fazzina and Yongliang Yang:

15 women photographers were selected by the juror Jill Greenberg as recipients of the 7th Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award. We chose our 5 favorite.

Amongst the 34 unique points of view chosen by the jury of the LensCulture's Earth Awards 2015, we have selected 7 images that catch our attention, from Renee C. Byer, Kemal Jufri, Eduardo Leal, Alessandro Grassani, Daniel Kariko, Pawel Bogumil and Pierpaolo Mittica.

Paris Photo, in partnership with J.P. Morgan Private Bank, created INTRODUCING! The Young California Photographer Award. They chose to honor the work of one M.F.A. candidate enrolled in an art school in California.

Congratulations to all the winners who were selected from 130 countries. We choose to show you the work of some of them, like Daesung Lee, Philipp Engelhorn, Candace Karch and more.

The recipient of the 2015 L'Iris d'Or / Sony World Photography Awards' Photographer of the Year title and $25,000 cash prize is American photographer John Moore.

World Press Photo is having a rough time since their February announcement that over 20% of its contestants were disqualified for breaking contest rules. And to make matters worse, there was also the disqualification of Giovanni Troilo's "La Ville Noir"-The Dark Heart of Europe, which depicts Charleroi, Belgium as seedy, sex-craved underbelly city of Europe.

We must admit that the photographers we choose to publish on All About Photo are somewhat our favorites, so it won't surprise you if the photographers in this Top 10 are already featured on the website. But we have also discovered new incredible portfolios. We look forward to find out more about their work.Congratulations to the 50 finalists!

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Photography category was awarded to Josh Haner of The New York Times for his moving essay on a Boston Marathon bomb blast victim who lost most of both legs and now is painfully rebuilding his life.

Here is a selection of 10 images from the National Award (Sony World Photography Awards) which uncovers and honors the best single image taken by a local photographer in over 30 different countries. This year's winning and runner up photographers from participating countries were selected from the ten categories of the Open competition of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Photography category was awarded to Javier Manzano, a free-lance photographer, for his extraordinary picture, distributed by Agence France-Presse, of two Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guarding their position as beams of light stream through bullet holes in a nearby metal wall.

Each spring, the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism are awarded in fourteen categories by Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Here is the list of the past winners from 2003 until 2012 in the Feature Photography category.

The 11th Carmignac Photojournalism Award - which focuses this year on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - was awarded to Canadian-British photographer Finbarr O'Reilly.

On November 4, 2021, within the framework of Leica Camera AG's Celebration of Photography event, the renowned American photographer Ralph Gibson will receive the Leica Hall of Fame Award for his life achievements. He will also be honoured with a comprehensive exhibition, which will run from November 5 until the end of February 2022, at the Leica Gallery in Wetzlar.

We're delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won "AAP Magazine #22: Streets". They come from 14 different countries and 4 continents!