“Asian Geographic is looking for special photographs from both talented amateur and professional photographers from any country in the world that capture a striking image of Asia’s land, people, architecture or wildlife.
Prizes worth a total of over S$20,000 will be awarded to one winner and one runner-up from each category, plus a grand prize for the best overall picture entered.
The top photographs will be exhibited as part of an ‘Asia Without Borders’ Photography Exhibition in Singapore and published in the December Photo Annual Edition of ASIAN Geographic Magazine.”
“Lens Culture International Exposure Awards discover, recognize, reward, and promote talented, new, emerging and established photographers from around the world.
We’re looking for exciting images from every continent, and from diverse points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, street photography, poetic, personal, abstract and human.”
“The focus of our year’s fundraising program is to raise funds for our homeless shelter in Surry Hills, Edward Eagar Lodge, homeless is one of the topics. Is it someone who doesn’t have shelter or is it someone with an inadequate experience of connectedness with family and or community’?
The other topic is the Our Community; submit an image, which depicts any aspect of community life in the City of Sydney.”
I have a lot of admiration for press photograpers. It takes a lot of skill to capture a communicative and visually engaging image under challenging conditions and tight deadlines. I don’t have anything to submit, but hey, you guys might :).
The 2009 News Photo of the Year is now open, and deadline is September 14th. Last’s years highly commended entries can be viewed here.
Shiho Fukada is last year’s overall winner, with his photo essay on China’s Sichuan earthquake.
“Be the official Groupie photographer and take photos like never before.
Olympus and Groupie are giving you the chance to win a job as the Groupie photographer for a month, trialing the brand new Olympus PEN Camera.
You’ll get two tickets to shoot for Groupie at up to eight gigs, including acts such as Art vs Science, The Cassette Kids, Children Collide, Yves Klein Blue and Wolfmother!
We’ll also give you a one-on-one session with professional photographer Chris Samuel, to give you some hints and tips on how to take the perfect gig photograph.
With your Olympus PEN Camera and your Official Groupie Photographer pass, you’ll be able to get amongst it and take photos like you’ve never taken before.”
Sounds pretty good hey? The only catch is that you would have to use the pen camera. I think I would be pretty frustrated at these gigs with an AAA pass in one hand and a teeny camera in the other.
Oh the upside, I read a few reviews on the Olympus Pen and it’s not as point-and-shoot as I thought. It certainly looks good.
Quick specs:
Model: Olympus EP-1
12.3MP Live MOS Sensor
Built-in Image Stabilisation
3in LCD
Micro Four Thirds Mount
100-6400 ISO
1/4000-2sec shutter
HD Video 720p
Lenses: Pancake 2.8 17mm (or standard 35mm) and 3.5-4.5 14-42mm (roughly 28-80mm)
The deadline isn’t until early October, that gives everyone a fair bit of time to shoot. I’ve got a good idea of where to find a good story - now I’ve just got to chase it. I’m probably not a contender in this competition, as it’s globally run and the standard would be sky high, but this gives me a purpose and a deadline for a new photo project.
Here’s a few images by Edwards. Yup, it’s not portraiture. So I have to be smart about how to make my work appeal to him.
Quick, the Sydney Life deadline is 5pm tomorrow! The total prize pool is $10,000 - but what’s caught my interest is the 3m blow up of your photo in Hyde Park. Beat that for exposure.
I put in my entries today for the 2009 Projections Competition, which is run by ACMP. The two projects I entered were Skin and Yah Yah, check them out on my portfolio.
I went to the awards screening last year and was blown away by the talent. I remember sitting in the audience and deciding that being a finalist in the 2009 Projections was my one year goal. Well, fingers crossed :).
I just had another look at the 2008 entries, and have been inspired anew! Such a high caliber of work - I must share. Below are only snapshots of my favourites. Here’s all the finalists.
My work will be shown in an exhibition at the State Library, in addition to being part of a MCPP touring exhibition around Australia. Winners will be announced on March 10th - I’ve got no chance, but can’t wait nevertheless
