July 03, 2008
Festimage has another winner from India
For the second year in a row, first prize in Festimage goes to India. This year’s winner is Abhijit Nandi, a fellow countryman of Arup Ghosh, last year’s winner. Second prize goes to Frenchman Bernard Muller, with third prize going to Daniel Benito Machado Hernández, a Uruguayan creator of digital art living in Japan. The 4th place entry is that of Oleksandr Hnatenko, an Austrian of Ukrainian origin, and in 5th place is Spaniard. The People’s Choice Prize was won by Sergey Kozoderov, from Kazakhstan. The 1st prize amounts to 5.000 euros. The other prizewinners receive 2.500, 1.000, 750 and 500 euros. The people’s choice prizewinner gets 1.000 euros.
In all, there were 2001 entrants from 63 countries at the third annual Festimage, of which 1499 were accepted into the contest. For the first evaluation of the projects we put together an Admissions Panel which included José Mamede, from Brazil, Juanjo Martín, from Spain, Armands Grundmanis, from Latvia, and Roman Voloshin, from the Ukraine. The scores awarded to the projects by this panel also determined the finalists in the competition.
The Final Panel, which selected the five prizewinners from among the finalists, consisted of Concepción Alarcón, from Spain, Edith Dedyk, from Brazil, Eugen Radescu, from Romania, Per Valentin, from Denmark, and Dmitry Yershov, from Russia.
After the Festimage finalists’ projects are reproduced on paper, they shall be put on display at the Cinema-Theater Gallery in Chaves, from 8 to 31 July. In turn, the works of some of the finalists shall be enlarged onto large-format canvas and put on display on a few façades on streets in the city’s historical center. At the same time, all accepted works will be projected on two giant screens set up in the city’s leisure areas. These two outdoor exhibits will take place from 8 July to 31 August.
Festimage is an event promoted by the City Council of Chaves, a city located in the north of Portugal. The entire event occurs over the Internet, at the site www.festimage.org, which comprises versions in six languages.
After three annual events, Festimage has had 5.217 entrants from 92 countries. In these three annual Festimage, the majority of contestants has always been from Spain, Brazil, Germany and Portugal. This year’s Festimage also had a significant number of entrants from India, France, Mexico, Colombia, Russia, Romania and Georgia.
Festimage’s first winner was Colombian photographer Luís Henry Agudelo.
Who is Abhijit Nandi?
This year’s Festimage winner is a teacher. His hobby as an amateur photographer became a more serious passion as of 2005. Since then, his talent has become more noteworthy through the awards he has already garnered, including the following, among others:
. Photographer of the year 2006 –adjudged by Better Photography Magazine, which is the most popular photography Magazine in India.
. Won 1st prize in colour section and a special mention in b/w section in 19th National Photo contest, organized by Photo Division, ministry of information and broadcasting, govt. of India;
. Won 2nd prize in b/w category & one special mention in colour category in WHO Photo Contest “Images of Health and Disability 2006”;
.Won 1st prize in the Photographer of the year 2006 (category Monsoon) contest organized by Better Photography;
. 1st award in b/w category in Ritz big print photo contest;
. Runners up city magazine – on city many destinations photo contest;
. 1st and 3rd award in Venice international photo contest;
. Award in “Asahi Shimbun” the international photographic salon of Japan.
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April 23, 2008
Enjoy a "Grand Prix weekend"
PicStop.co.uk are offering x2 grandstand tickets for the Great Britain round of the 2008 MotoGP motorcycling championship. All you have to do is answer one simple question to win and enjoy three full days enjoyment at the world's premier motorcycling championship.
This fantastic prize includes:
- x2 MotoGP tickets for the Great Britain round at Donington Park
- Seating in the Redgate Grandstand (Fri-Sun)
- Entry on Friday 20th, Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd June 2008
MotoGP is the world's premier motorcycling event with a season of 18 Grand Prix events in 16 countries bringing together the world's top motorcycle manufacturers such as Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Ducati, Kawasaki, Aprilia & KTM - Plus an elite crop of riders from every corner of the globe.
The Great Britain round of the 2008 MotoGP is held at the Donington Park circuit. Donington Park is in Leicestershire, near to Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. It is a parkland circuit set in a natural amphitheatre which allows superb viewing of its fast sweeping corners.
Competition Closes: 13th June 2008
Visit the website to find the question.
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April 11, 2008
Festimage - International Image Festival
The 2008 edition of Festimage – International Image Festival will begin on 14 April; it is as of this date that contestants may send in their entries, with the contest lasting until 20 May. This year, the festival will include two competitions – with the Official Prize and the People’s Choice Prize up for grabs. The former, which will include 9.750,00 euros in prize money to be distributed among the top five winners, shall be voted on by an international panel. The latter, which will award 1.000,00 euros to the winner, is to be voted on by the public, via the organizers’ website (www.festimage.org).
The 50 finalist works for the Official Prize and the winner of the People’s Choice Prize shall then be put on display at the Cinema-Theater Gallery, in Chaves, Portugal, from 8 to 31 July.
Some of those works simultaneously shall be enlarged to bigger formats and posted in some of the streets and squares in the city of Chaves.
In parallel, all works accepted into the contest shall be projected at night, on two giant screens set up in the most crowded areas of the city, from 8 July until the end of August.
Festimage, which is being promoted by the municipality of Chaves, Portugal, is to be held entirely over the Internet and is open to photographers and authors of digital art from all over the world.
Contestants from 84 countries took part in the previous editions, in 2006 and 2007. The 2006 winner was Colombian photographer Luis Henry Agudelo, and first prize in 2007 was won by Indian physician Arup Ghosh.
Countries with the most entries in previous editions of Festimage were Spain, Germany, Brazil and Portugal, followed by France, Argentina, Colombia, Austria, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, the USA, India and Italy.
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March 30, 2008
Wings To Fly - New Book by Guest Photographer Joanne Chilton and Jeanne Ripley
Guest Photographer Joanne Chilton, and poet Jeanne Ripley have produced Wings To Fly, featuring a collection of 47 inspiritional poems written to poetic black and white images, bound in a single soft cover book. "Wings to Fly gently opens your heart and frees your mind. The captivating photographs and companion words capture the magical within you".
Availability
Wings to Fly will be officially released on May 1, 2008. All purchases until May 1 will be discounted to $19.95 -- a $5.00 saving.
Win a Free Print
Until June 30, 2008, anyone purchasing a copy of Wings to Fly will be eligible to win a limited edition 6x9 signed photographic print. The winner will choose one image from the book to be specially printed and signed by Joanne Chilton.
A preview of Wings To Fly is available on Joanne's website Om Studio. Joanne can be contacted for further details about the book here.
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March 27, 2008
Photographers Rights Protest Outside Scotland Yard
NUJ General Secretary, Jeremy Dear, will tomorrow (28/03) stage a one-man protest outside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police to highlight the failure of law enforcement officers to protect media freedoms.
The union is frustrated that a large number of its photographer members continue to be regularly obstructed from doing their jobs by police officers who don’t understand the law around media freedom. The one-man protest will aim to help senior police officers spot the difference between a protester and photographers covering the protest.
Last year a set of guidelines on dealing with the media was agreed between the NUJ and the Association of Chief Police Officers, an extension of guidelines already agreed with the Metropolitan Police. However, cases have continued to surface of police officers taking action that is not within their legal powers. Most cases involve officers obstructing photographers from taking photos and the confiscation or deletion of pictures once they have been taken.
There are also examples of journalists being arrested, or threatened with arrest, because they have refused to stop taking photos and in other cases photographers have had their equipment seized. Many NUJ members have reported being physically and mentally intimidated by the police and some cases have included actual physical violence.
Photographers regularly criticise the police for their handling of the media at major events, particularly public demonstrations where officers often fail to draw a sufficient distinction between protestors and members of the press who are reporting on the event.
Jeremy Dear will deliver a letter to New Scotland Yard highlighting the union’s concerns and will stage his protest to help demonstrate the differences between a protestor and press photographers. A letter from the NUJ Parliamentary Group to the Home Secretary will also be delivered to the Home Office tomorrow to raise the issue at the highest levels.
Speaking in advance of the protest, Jeremy Dear said: “It’s a shame that we have to hold a stunt like this to help the police spot the difference between a protestor and a press photographer. It really isn’t that difficult.
“What’s really frustrating is that guidelines are already in place which should deal with the problems we experience. We’re not even campaigning for a change to the rules. All we want is for the policy that currently exists to be properly enforced.
“Although the one-man protest is intended to be a little light-hearted, this is a really serious issue. Police officers are preventing photographers from reporting on important events with action that is at times bordering on harassment. In an open and democratic society it’s vital that photographers and members of the media are free to report on what is going on in the world. Police officers need to understand their responsibilities when it comes to respecting media freedom.”
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November 25, 2007
Photographers – Create your own website with Online Photographers
Online Photographers have just released a new website wizard creation tool, called the MySite, for professional photographers to display and sell their photos and work online.
This new service offered by Online Photographers means that photographers can avoid the need for expensive hosting and web development and easily create their own photography website, quickly and cheaply. Users can, quite simply, go to http://www.onlinephotographers.net choose create a MySite and then start customising their own photography website. All the user needs is a computer and the internet to get started.
As well as being invaluable to photographers who want to build up their reputation and showcase their photographs, the service is ideal for photographers to sell their work as prints.
Andrew Hardman, Director of Online Photographers says: “The photography industry is growing faster and faster with the digital age and more and more people wish to become photographers and begin to make money from their passion. Online Photographers helps to make this dream a reality by providing an area on the internet where photographers can showcase their work and build up their reputation as a professional, whilst also learning from other experienced photographers in the community. The MySite is yet another tool which we have released to support photographers”
To find out more about the full range of features of the MySite photography website tool please visit http://www.onlinephotographers.net/mysite.aspx or contact support@onlinephotographers.net.
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August 20, 2007
Photography Recruitment Website Launches
Photography Jobs Finder launches to provide the photography industry with its first dedicated recruitment website for job seekers and employers.
In a recent survey of 78 people working within the photography field 59 stated they had experienced problems when searching online for work and found it a time consuming process. Responding to this survey the Photography Jobs Finder website has been launched. Providing an online recruitment service dedicated to employers and jobs seekers from the photography industry, its purpose is to streamline the task of job searching.
Alex Hamer, creator of Photography Jobs Finder, says, "Being a photographer I have always found it a laborious task when searching for work. Jobs are often scattered over many websites and there is not one dedicated location for the photography industry to visit. With Photography Jobs Finder I am trying to solve these problems and make all our lives easier!"
Photography Jobs Finder already advertises a number of jobs, ranging from freelance photography to picture editors. As well as this it provides job seekers with the ability to build their CV online for potential employers to search from and view. Photographers can now sign up free to a weekly jobs bulletin delivered straight to their inboxes.
For further details about Photography Jobs Finder go to www.photographyjobsfinder.com
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August 16, 2007
EISA Awards 2007/2008
The leading European association for consumer electronics EISA have selected the best products in the 2006/07 Photo category. The winners are:
EUROPEAN ADVANCED CAMERA Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro
EUROPEAN ADVANCED COMPACT CAMERA Canon PowerShot G7
EUROPEAN CAMERA Pentax K10D
EUROPEAN COMPACT CAMERA Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3
EUROPEAN CONSUMER CAMERA Olympus E-510
EUROPEAN CONSUMER LENS Tamron AF18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II LD Aspherical (IF)
EUROPEAN DESIGN CAMERA Samsung i70
EUROPEAN IMAGE TANK Epson P-5000
EUROPEAN MACRO LENS Sigma Macro 70mm f/2.8 EX DG
EUROPEAN MEMORY CARD SanDisk Extreme III SDHC
EUROPEAN PHOTO ACCESSORY Metz Mecablitz 58 AF-1 Digital
EUROPEAN PHOTO PRINTER Epson Stylus Pro 3800
EUROPEAN PHOTO SOFTWARE DxO Optics Pro 4.5
EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL CAMERA Canon EOS-1D Mark III
EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL LENS Canon EF 70-200 mm f/4 IS USM L-series
Visit the EISA website for further details.
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May 18, 2007
2007 Travel Photographer Of The Year Competition
The 2007 awards are now open for entries. The closing date is 19th September 2007 so there is plenty of time to take and select your photographs to enter. Anyone can enter the competition – young or old, amateur or professional and there’s a total prize package worth over £50,000. Prizes this year include trips to China, Tanzania and the Swiss Alps plus two other amazing expeditions. That's not all though; there's some of the most sophisticated and highly specified professional photographic equipment around, including an HP Z2100 professional large format printer, the latest top-of-the-range Fujifilm digital camera, Mamiya 7II rangefinder camera plus lenses, a Wacom Cintiq 21 UX and Intuos A5 wide pen tablet, leather print portfolio books from Plastic Sandwich, plus Sekonic lights meters, Peli cases and Giottos tripods.
This year there are also TPOTY bursaries with three of the awards, adding £2,500 to the prize for the overall winner - the Travel Photographer of the Year 2007 - £1,000 to the prize for the winner of New Talent (see below) and £500 to the prize for the Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2007.
New for 2007 are the TPOTY "New Talent" awards. TPOTY has teamed up with Adventure Ecology to give a talented amateur, semi-pro or recently turned professional photographer the chance to really put their photography on the map. The winner will receive photographic and digital imaging tuition to enable them to do everything from shooting through to printing or publishing their own images on the web. They'll also receive a suite of Adobe software to enable them to do this, a personalised leather portfolio from Plastic Sandwich, plus £1000 so that they can add to their photographic kit. Once the winner is prepared and kitted out, they'll join Adventure Ecology on one of their expeditions . They will be profiled in the media and their images exhibited in a central London gallery in 2008.
The competition has three Portfolio categories and a One Shot category. There's also the New Talent category and a separate category for Young Travel Photographers, with the winner of Young TPOTY having their images exhibited in a central London gallery in 2008. Each category has a different theme and between them they cover many of the different aspects of travel photography.
The Travel Photographer of the Year 2007 will be the photographer who the judges feel demonstrates the greatest skill, diversity and creativity in two different portfolio categories.
It's not just about winning though. The competition is an opportunity for you to improve your photography and receive feedback and advice from top professionals. The best images, not just the winners, will feature in TPOTY exhibitions and 'Journey' books. This exposure may well help you to sell your photographs or get commissions, as it has helped many other photographers in recent years. Through TPOTY you also have access to an independent image library if you'd like to submit some images. This facility is there should you wish to use it but it isn't compulsory. If you just want to participate in the competition that's fine.
There is a small entry fee, except for entrants aged 16 and under, but this is scaled to the size of your entry.
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