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Sony releases shortlist for amateur photography awards

If you’re an amateur photographer, have you entered any photography competitions lately? If you’ve entered the latest contest by Sony, the Photography Awards, you’ll be excited to know that Sony has just released its shortlist for the finalists. 186 different photographers have made it to the final, hailing from 43 different countries.
Astrid Merget, the director [...]

Chris Hoy Challenges Photographers

Olympic Champion Chris Hoy is challenging budding press photographers in Scotland to impress him with a photo that captures the moment and inspires viewers.
Chris Hoy has come across many press photographers during his illustrious biking career, he has seen the good the bad and the ugly of photo journalism. Some photographers snap away and get [...]

Mr Giraffe Wins Photography Award

A Salisbury based photographer has recently won an award for his work this photo can be seen on tax disc holders at Halfords stores across the UK.
The photographer, Chris Pethick, entered the pictorial and illustrative category at the British Professional Photography Awards, and the winning image entitled ‘Mr Giraffe’.
The competition was open to professional photographers [...]

New Charity Photography Project By Alexa Chung

Model, Presenter, DJ, fashionista and now Photographer, Alexa Chung is launching a new photography project for Charity in alliance with Vice Magazine and Ctrl. Alt. Shift.
Alexa is an accomplished photographer and is offering her services as a mentor to young photographers, along with 4 others. As an advisor Alexa will offer advice and support to [...]

Americas Next Top Model

The latest season of the hit reality TV show Americas Next Top Model kicked off a few weeks ago and unfortunately I’ve not managed to catch one episode yet! I am hoping to catch it as I love the scandals, fall outs , and diva strops from the American girls looking to get there big [...]

Photography Competition For Non Photographers

A Photography competition and exhibition open to enthusiastic photographers who take pictures in their spare time.The competition the Blue Ridge Overview Juried Photographic Competition and Exhibit is running for its 29th year in a row and begins on the 28th September until November the 7th at the Wilkes Art Gallery.The idea is for photographers whose [...]

Nikon boycotts Microsoft

Nikon have withdrawn from the Microsoft Photography competition, a couple of weeks ago Nikon first took away their support from the computer giants competition over a row about copywrite infringements. Since then it seems other photographers have followed suit as the photography competiton has seen more and more people drop out.
The issue was first raised [...]

Dubai photography exhibition starts today

The Photography Exhibition called  Dubai Summer Surprises 2008 Signature Event, has started today in the Jewellery Court in Deira City Centre, the exhibition showases work of photographers from diverse backgrounds and different styles of photo journalism.
The dubai exhibition will run from today until August 18th, open from 10am to 10pm,  numerous themes will be feautured [...]

Professor Wins Microsoft Competition

The recent Microsoft Photography Competition held at Cambridge University’s Department of Engineering, was was won by Dr Sonja Findeisen-Tandel, a Research Associate at the Photonics Research Group in the Electrical Engineering Division.
The photograph is more than just a pretty picture the ‘Blue spikes’ show the growth of a mesophase composed of liquid crystals [...]

Photography Awards Offer total of £13,000 in Prizes

The British Journal of Photography is holding its 4th International Photography Awards,and year they’ve upped the prizes totalling £13,000.
They have also re shaped the competition to get more entries, previously photographers had to showcase a whole portfolio of workfor the competition, but this year they have added a new category for a single image and [...]