CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year
The competition seeks to honour photographers who use their ability to raise awareness of environmental and social issues. CIWEM encourages entries that celebrate the power of photography and inspire people around the world to start taking care of our environment.
Cosmopoetica (Poetas del Mundo en Córdoba)
Cosmopoética celebra en 2008 su quinta edición consolidándose como el encuentro de poesía más prestigioso de Europa. Este encuentro de poetas del mundo en Córdoba, actividad buque insignia de la Candidatura de Córdoba a ser Capital Cultural de Europa en 2016, amplía su marco temporal extendiendo sus actividades a lo largo de tres semanas de abril, que culmina con la Feria del Libro y se convierte así en el Mes de las Letras, con la poesía como referente.
Travel Photographer of The Year (TPOTY) The Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) is run by photographers for photographers. The awards were created in 2003 by photographer, Chris Coe, with the objective of providing an international showcase for travel photography and travelling photographers in order to celebrate the very best in travel photography. In 2007, it attracted entries from photographers in over 50 countries. The youngest entrant to date was aged just five, the oldest 88.
Prix Pictet Photographic Award in Sustainability
The Prix Pictet is a major new global prize in photography that focuses on perhaps the greatest single issue of the twenty-first century: sustainability. The award is sponsored by Pictet & Cie, in association with the Financial Times. With a single annual prize of CHF 100,000, the Prix Pictet will reward photographers and the images they use to tell stories of urgent global significance. Each year the Prix Pictet will focus on a distinct sustainability theme. The theme for 2008 is water. Entry to the Prix Pictet is only by special nomination.
World Press Photos
The award gained cult status amongst the publishing world for its brave and sobering entries. World Press Photo aims to support professional press photography on a wide international scale. Its mission is to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information.
The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project
Launched in 2003 the project explores how photography can shape public perception and effect social change through exhibits, workshops, grantmaking, and public programs. It supports photographers whose work addresses social justice and human rights issues that coincide with OSI’s mission.
Traditional media offer limited opportunities for presenting documentary photographs in a way that creates a meaningful and lasting impact on the communities or issues addressed in the images. The OSI Documentary Photography Project is offering a grant to documentary photographers who have already completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to collaborate with a partner organization and propose new ways of using photography as a tool for positive social change.
All photographers must have another entity (such as a nonprofit, NGO, or community-based organization) that will work with the photographer to design an innovative distribution strategy that targets specific communities and advocates for social change. The partner must engage with the photographer to accomplish these goals – and not just fund or publish the project. Grants of $5,000 to $30,000 will be awarded.
The Aftermath Project
This is a non-profit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict – the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace.
The Aftermath Project holds a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. In addition, through partnerships with universities, photography institutions and non-profit organizations, the Project seeks to help broaden the public’s understanding of the true cost of war – and the real price of peace – through international traveling exhibitions and educational outreach in communities and schools. An annual publication co-published with Aperture and Mets & Schilt is distributed world wide.
Sony Ericsson's World View Camera Phone Photography Competition Sony Ericsson’s World View unites the global camera phone community through its international search for the best camera phone photographers of the year. This global competition aims to uncover the world’s best camera phone photographers. Anyone can enter, and photos based on any subject are welcome. From people to nature, and everything in between, just send the best photos that you’ve captured with your camera phone. Who knows, you could become a World View Photographer of the Year and win the trip of a lifetime.
The global Expert’s Choice winner will receive a trip of a lifetime to one of five destinations worth approximately £10,000/12,500 EUR.
The global People’s Choice winner will receive a trip of a lifetime to one of five destinations worth approximately £5,000/6,250 EUR.
Sony World Photography Awards 2009 The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the largest photographic events today. The Gala is held once a year in the prestigious Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. The celebration of the still image - its roots, conception, adaptation and continuous evolution - is a constant parallel, unifying all categories of the World Photography Awards.
Covering wide genres from fine art to applied photography in fashion, advertising and sport to humanistic and documentary photography of people, social, cultural and current affairs to the environmental image of landscape, wildlife and ecology.
WPA continuously create ways in order to support and further promote its existing industry network, the newly discovered photographers and those studying the craft. These include the Student Programme, The Sony World Photography Awards Global Tour and the Online World Photography Awards Magazine.
www.worldphotographyawards.org
Nikon Photo Contest International 2008-2009
The Nikon Photo Contest International has been held by Nikon Corporation since 1969 to provide an opportunity for photographers around the world to communicate and to enrich photographic culture for professionals and amateurs alike.
"At the heart of the image" is not only the brand statement of Nikon Imaging Company, but it is also the theme for the 32nd contest, in which entries are invited in two categories. The first category is free subject and the second is entitled "My Planet," and entries to each category are accepted as prints sent by conventional mail or as JPEG images sent via the Internet. With this theme and these categories, we look forward to receiving expressive images from around the world that are true to people's emotions. www.nikon-npci.com
The Assignment by Canon Canon has invited amateur photographers to compete for The Assignment, the European photography competition that is set to take the continent by storm. Categories are Portrait, Landscape, Sport, or Macro photography.
Photographers were given the opportunity to submit their best works by uploading them onto this website from March 2008 - May 2008. Four winners were chosen to go on the photographic experience of a lifetime. Look out for more on the winners and their Assignments soon.
National Geographic International Photo Contest The International Photo Contest cover categories such as People, Places, Nature and Kids competition. According Nat Geo resident photographer Maggie Steber, expert mentor in the People category, "As photographers, we ask people to be vulnerable before us, and before the world – so we should approach with humility and be prepared to be open and vulnerable too". Photographing people has fascinated Maggie Steber ever since she decided that becoming a French teacher in Texas just wouldn't be as exciting. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest
The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation
The foundation exists to secure a creatively ambitious and diverse future for British documentary, by looking beyond television to develop, fund and distribute the work of the next generation of UK documentary filmmakers. As well as directly funding films, The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation also try to help the filmmakers that they fund in other ways: arranging mentoring where appropriate, as well as offering advice and additional funding to ensure that films get seen by the right people once they are completed.
The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation currently have a Main Fund of over £500,000 to give away each year in grants to support independent filmmakers and artists making documentary projects that would not be commissioned by a UK broadcaster. Since their inception in 2005 they have funded over 40 film projects: 68% features 32% short films. Please check out Funded Films pages for full details.
The Wildlife Photographer of The Year
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition is an international showcase for the very best photography featuring natural subjects. The competition is owned by two UK institutions that pride themselves on revealing and championing the diversity of life on Earth - the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Being accepted into this competition is something that wildlife photographers, worldwide, aspire to. Professionals win many of the prizes, but amateurs succeed, too. And that's because achieving the perfect picture is down to a mixture of skill, vision, originality, knowledge of nature and luck.
Each year thousands of entries are received and judged by a specially selected expert panel. The winners are announced at an awards ceremony that takes place each October at the Natural History Museum, London.
