'Tis the season...
...for photo contests. Every year from late December to the end of January, photojournalist the world over are huddled around their computer monitors, toning files, editing essays, and trying to make their captions sound more intelligent. It is Contest Season. The bane of our existence. Tedium.
Their are a few major contests that everyone enters, in order of prominence:
1) World Press Photo - This is the big daddy. Win something here and people notice. It's sponsored by the Dutch government and every year they select a Photo of the Year in addition to judging images in several other categories. Aesthetically the most progressive, also the most political and most international.
2) Pictures of the Year International (POYi) - In it's 65th year, POYi is run out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and leans more towards magazine style shooting as opposed to newspaper style.
3) Best of Photojournalism (BOP) - Relatively recent contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers' Association (NPPA) it leans more towards newspaper style and less towards magazine.
4) White House News Photographers' Association (WHNPA) - A local Washington, D.C. contest, it's fairly heavy on news coverage and politics, but a fun contest. They have open judging every year which is a blast to watch, until you hear your photos eliminated... I'm really bummed I'm gonna miss the judging this year because of our shoot in China - it's always a good time since all the photographers in D.C. come out to watch.
So, I'm in the middle of trying to decide what to enter. You have a limited number of entries in each contest, so you have to pair things down a bit. I won't repost some of my favorites from this most recent shoot in China, but here are some other images of mine from this year...
Yellowstone
Arctic Circle
Their are a few major contests that everyone enters, in order of prominence:
1) World Press Photo - This is the big daddy. Win something here and people notice. It's sponsored by the Dutch government and every year they select a Photo of the Year in addition to judging images in several other categories. Aesthetically the most progressive, also the most political and most international.
2) Pictures of the Year International (POYi) - In it's 65th year, POYi is run out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and leans more towards magazine style shooting as opposed to newspaper style.
3) Best of Photojournalism (BOP) - Relatively recent contest sponsored by the National Press Photographers' Association (NPPA) it leans more towards newspaper style and less towards magazine.
4) White House News Photographers' Association (WHNPA) - A local Washington, D.C. contest, it's fairly heavy on news coverage and politics, but a fun contest. They have open judging every year which is a blast to watch, until you hear your photos eliminated... I'm really bummed I'm gonna miss the judging this year because of our shoot in China - it's always a good time since all the photographers in D.C. come out to watch.
So, I'm in the middle of trying to decide what to enter. You have a limited number of entries in each contest, so you have to pair things down a bit. I won't repost some of my favorites from this most recent shoot in China, but here are some other images of mine from this year...
Cambodia, Khmer Rouge Trials
Thailand
Yellowstone
Arctic Circle
Chad
China
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