A photographer who has charted the growing up of his daughter and four of her friends has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Award with a re-staged picture he entered into the 2008 competition. Five Girls 2014 shows the group six years on from an original image that was taken right before their GCSE school exams (11th grade). Read more
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A picture of the Dorset coastline on a snowy day has won a UK photographer the £10,000 top prize in the ‘Take A View’ competition. Andy Farrer, a professional photographer from Dorset, England, has become the ninth Landscape Photographer of the Year with his image of ‘Bat’s Head In The Snow’. Read more
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The four images in the running for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize have been revealed by Great Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. The often-controversial award is again set to spark some debate as one of the shortlisted images features a naked boy that many media outlets will have to think twice about reproducing. Read more
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We first became acquainted with Andrew Suryono’s name when his ‘Orangutan in the Rain’ photo popped up as one of the top submissions to the Sony World Photography awards. As we later found out, he’s a DPR regular and his photo eventually took first place in Sony’s Indonesia National Award category. Find out the story behind the image. Read more
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American photographer John Moore has won the L’Iris d’Or Photographer of the Year prize in the World Photography Organization’s annual competition. The Getty Images photographer submitted a dramatic and emotional series of pictures telling the story of the Ebola crisis in Liberia’s capital Monrovia – a series that was credited with being the first to expose the scale of the problem that country faced and the severity of the epidemic. Read more
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For this contest, Defrozo is giving away five prize packs
Defrozo is a team of web developers and photographers currently seeking contributors on Kickstarter in order to finish their one-stop photography marketing platform by October 2015.
Defrozo is built to help photographers grow by offering seven essential tools, from a website manager to shopping cart, and even a CRM (customer relation management) system, for better display and marketing of their work online.
There are going to be five winners to this giveaway. Each winner will receive a Prize Pack designed to help both enthusiast and pro photographers create an engaging, relationship-driven online brand that generates leads, referrals, and sales.
Get our most popular Kickstarter reward for free. This includes:
Strengthen your brand by using three professional marketing templates produced by Defrozo’s respected partner, TemplateMonster. Set includes:
To win this contest you’ll need to:
By best – the Defrozo Co-Founders are looking to see if you have an understanding of what Defrozo is about and how it best suits your needs, so you’ll need to check out the project’s Kickstarter page to put yourself in the best position to win.
There’s no need to write essay length comments to win, but we’re looking to hear your feedback about Defrozo and how it would help your development as a photographer.
This competition is open to everyone around the world, no matter where you live, but there is only one entry per person.
To enter, simply leave your comment below.
Defrozo is a community-driven platform which means that your feedback and suggestions will be used by the developers to build a truly versatile and effective system capable to solve many problems photographers face day to day.
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Following an investigation into Contemporary Issues winner Giovanni Troilo’s photo story ‘La Ville Noir – The Dark Heart of Europe,’ World Press Photo has stripped the photographer of his prize. The organization found Troilo to be in violation of contest rules – specifically, a photo he submitted that he alleged to have been taken in the Belgian city at the heart of the project turns out to have been taken in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels. Read more
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Nikon has opened the doors to entries for the company’s annual photo contest, and is offering a top prize of 1m Yen (approx. $ 9200/£5600/€7100) in equipment with 500,000 Yen cash for the overall top prize. Running since 1969 the competition this year will feature 7 categories including a new ‘Home’ theme and a ‘Generation N’ section for 10 entrants aged 19 and under. Learn more
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An ongoing war in eastern Congo has killed more than 5 million people since it started in the early 1990s. How do you draw attention to an armed conflict the world is largely ignoring? Photographer Richard Mosse spent years in the region documenting combatants with infrared film to make the camouflaged soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Congo stand out rather than blend in with their surroundings. Last week, Mosse won the Deutche Börse Photography Prize for his installation The Enclave. Read more
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Over the last month we’ve been launching our brand new Landscape Photography Post Production eBook – Loving Landscapes. As part of that launch we offered Early Bird buyers the chance to go in the draw to win $ 1500 towards new gear.
Today we drew that winner and let her know of her win.
The winner is – Sue Hunt!
Congratulations Sue – we’ve emailed you with details!
Thanks to everyone for your feedback on our eBook – we’ve never had so much positive feedback on an eBook.
Here are just some of the reviews!
While our competition is now over the great news is our eBook is still available for purchase. Grab yours here today.
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