Magnum Foundation Announces Recipients of Emergency Fund

The Magnum Foundation has committed more than $100,000 to supportexperienced photographers working to document critical issues that have been overlooked or underrepresented by mainstream media.

The 2010 Emergency Fund Photographers are: Christopher Anderson; Jonas Bendiksen; Cedric Gerbehaye; Bruce Gilden; Saiful Huq Omi; Sohrab Hura; Krisanne Johnson; Alex Majoli; Karen Mirzoyan; Dominic Nahr; Simon Norfolk; Louie Palu; Paolo Pellegrin; Gilles Peress; Eugene Richards; Larry Towell; Shehab Uddin; Geert van Kesteren; Kadir van Lohuizen; and Wang Yishu.

read more: http://www.magnumfoundation.org/

Fabrica F Award Deadline Extended

from http://www.fff.ph/ Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research center and Forma, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia (international photography center) launch the third edition of the F Award - international award for concerned photography.

The F Award aims to involve photographers from all over the world.

The F Award aims to award photography that documents and criticizes, that tells a story: dramas, struggles, abused rights, but also dignity; pain and consolation, desperation and hope; the loss of everything and the triumph of life’s new possibilities and lastly the things that people do to face all of this. In a word, life.

The F Award aims to promote photography as a means of transmitting information and creating awareness. Without photography what would we know of hunger in the world, of the likely outcome of every war, of the living conditions of “the other half” to quote the work of one of concerned photography’s pioneers?

The F Award is inspired by the following words, published in 1972 by Cornell Capa: “They are concerned photographers. They take sides. They are people who wanted to show things that had to be corrected…wanted to show things that had to be appreciated”. The Concerned Photographer, Editor Cornell Capa, Grossman 1972

What to do: photographers who would like to participate should propose a series of photographs by June 7th, 2010 that would be part of a wider project that the prize will help finance.

The jury is formed by international personalities and is chaired by Peter Galassi, Director of Photography at MOMA, New York.

The other jury members are:

Monica Allende, Director of Photography, The Sunday Times Magazine Enrico Bossan, Director of Photography, Fabrica Melissa Harris, Editor, Aperture Roberto Koch, President, Forma Paolo Pellegrin, Photographer Magnum Photos Urs Stahel, Director of the Museum of Winterthur (Zurich)

The jury will award the most interesting project with a contribution of euro 20.000 and the possibility of publishing a book.

A special section, F25, for photographers under 25 will see the winner awarded with a one year scholarship in Fabrica’s photography area.

For further information:

Fabrica Press Office Angela Quintavalle angie@fabrica.it ph: +39-0422-516209 www.fabrica.it

Forma Press Office Laura Bianconi lbianconi@formafoto.it ph: +39-02-58118067 www.formafoto.it

Eddie Adams workshop deadline extended

From http://www.eddieadamsworkshop.com/apply/

2010 Barnstorm Workshop

2010 Eddie Adams Workshop: Barnstorm XXIII

The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top photography professionals, along with 100 carefully selected students. The photography workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios.

Workshop sponsored by Nikon, Inc.

2010 Key Dates

  • EXTENDED until June 4, 2010: All applications due
  • June 26: Final Portfolio Judging
  • July: Barnstorm XXIII acceptance announcements
  • October 8-11: Barnstorm XXIII in Jeffersonville, NY

"Starved for Attention" exhibit

This event Wednesday night looks interesting:

From http://www.starvedforattention.org/

VII photojournalists traveled to malnutrition "hotspots" around the world to produce a series of multimedia documentaries to shed light on the underlying causes of the global malnutrition crisis and innovative approaches to combat this disease.

  • Marcus Bleasdale in Djibouti
  • Jessica Dimmock in Burkina Faso & the US
  • Ron Haviv in Bangladesh
  • Antonin Kratochvil in the US
  • Franco Pagetti in DRC
  • Stephanie Sinclair in India
  • John Stanmeyer in Mexico

Seamlessly blending photography and video from some of the most prolific and award-winning photojournalists, "Starved for Attention" captures a new visual identity for malnutrition through frontline stories.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Exhibit Opening & Reception 6 pm – 9 pm Panel Discussion 7 pm

The TimesCenter 242 West 41st Street, New York

Photographers being denied access to Gulf Coast

File under "sad but not surprising".  Photojournalists are being denied access by BP to huge chunks of the coastline affected by the oil spill. Even flyovers are being controlled by BP.  Imagery of the devastating effects of the oil spill will surely bring more public outrage, and BP is hoping to control this.

From  http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html:

Last week, a CBS TV crew was threatened with arrest when attempting to film an oil-covered beach. On Monday, Mother Jones published this firsthand account of one reporter’s repeated attempts to gain access to clean-up operations on oil-soaked beaches, and the telling response of local law enforcement. The latest instance of denied press access comes from Belle Chasse, La.-based Southern Seaplane Inc., which was scheduled to take a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer for a flyover on Tuesday afternoon, and says it was denied permission once BP officials learned that a member of the press would be on board.

American Youth Book Editing & Event

Produced the American Youth book, a collection of photographs about young people shot by the photographers of Redux Pictures. The book received a lot of great press, including praise from Readers Digest, The Washington Post, Photo District News, NPR, The Daily Beast, Time.com and numerous photo blogs.

Organized a traveling exhibition which was shown at The New York Photo Festival, LOOK3 The Festival of the Photograph, The Minneapolis Center for Photography and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Each of these exhibitions generated their own press.

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Summer is no time for a vacation

If you're an editorial photographer, now is definitely the time to be getting your website, portfolios and promo pieces in shape for fall. NYC will soon be a sleepy village as all of the photo editors switch from turning out big spreads to daydreaming about what time they can hop on the LIRR to their summer share. Same goes for you corporate photographers hoping to shoot still, video or multimedia for annual reports this fall.

Contact me during June so there is time to get everything in order for September!