Craig August 8th, 2007
The Hasselblad Masters Award is one of the most prestigious awards in the industry, each year celebrating the best in both established and rising photographic talent. Masters Awards are given in recognition of a photographer’s contribution to the art of photography and are judged on overall photographic ability, encompassing creativity, composition, conceptual strength, and technical skill. Past Masters include both renowned artists of international standing as well as promising newcomers in a wide range of fields and disciplines.
In the past, Hasselblad has awarded twelve separate Masters Awards each year, with an annual calendar presented featuring the winners’ work. In the past, submissions have been accepted only from Hasselblad users and no other photography was considered. As the world of photography has changed, so has Hasselblad as well, and so shall the Hasselblad Masters Awards.
Winners will receive the use of an H3D digital camera system for two periods during 2008. One period will be for use at the photographer’s discretion and the other will be devoted to the creation of images for this special Masters commemorative book. This book will feature pictorials showing the results of each winning photographer freely interpreting a given theme.
Applications for the 2008 Hasselblad Masters Awards are being accepted until November 1st, 2007. For more information, log on to http://www.hasselblad.com/masters.
Craig August 7th, 2007
Pentax have announced the opening of the Pentax Photo Gallery. An online photo gallery dedicated to photographs taken with Pentax equipment with a very well done Flash interface, Pentax Photo Gallery allows you to browse images in collections, categories, artists and even by camera or lens. The entire site is available in six languages and already hosts over 2500 images by 300 photographers.
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Pentax Press Release
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Craig August 6th, 2007
JPEG XR is the tentative name for a brand new JPEG format from Microsoft. Formerly referred to as the HD Photo file format, Microsoft have now submitted it to the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG). If approved, JPEG XR will offer better image fidelity, higher image compression efficiency and flexible editing features. “Microsoft is very pleased that the JPEG working group is considering HD Photo as a new standard and we are committed to working cooperatively with JPEG and its affiliated standards organizations†said Tom Robertson, General Manager of Interoperability and Standards, Microsoft.
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Craig August 6th, 2007
26-year-old Brazilian photographer Julio Bittencourt has won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2007 for a series of portraits of inhabitants of a house occupied by homeless people in downtown São Paulo, Brasil. Honourable mentions went to the Spanish photographer José Cendon for a reportage project in psychiatric hospitals in East Africa and the Norwegian Margaret M. de Lange, who captured the childhood and youth of her two daughters in a long-term photographic project.
Held since 1979 in memory of the inventor of the first 35mm camera, Oskar Barnack (1879 – 1936), the competitions each year centres on the relationship between man and his environment. Launched in 1925 as the world’s first compact camera, the Leica 35mm made it possible to take strong reportage shots and became the tool of many photographers who had a lasting influence on photojournalism.
Judging took place in the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, and was chaired by director Agnès Sire. Members of panel included François Hébel (Rencontres d’Arles), Hans-Michael Koetzle (Leica World), Brigitte Schaller (Leica Fotografie International) and Gaëlle Gouinguené and Gero Furchheim (Leica Camera Group).
The winning images and 5,000 Euro award were presented during the photo festival Rencontres d’Arles last month in the south of France.
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Craig August 5th, 2007
I’ve temporarily gone back to the default Wordpress theme while the software gets upgraded. Everything should be back to normal later today.
EDIT : Done, the software has been updated. Thanks Kenneth for the work.
Craig July 31st, 2007
The BBC have an audio slideshow up at the moment, with commentary from three Associated Press (AP) photographers. Horst Faas, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, achieved fame with his pictures of the Vietnam War; Oded Balilty, an Israeli photographer who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, and AP’s global director of photography, Santiago Lyon. It’s an interesting show that runs for about four minutes.
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As an aside, I recently saw Balilty’s prize winning image at the World Press Photos exhibition in Taipei. Like all good images, it really needs to be seen large to fully appreciate.
Tags: Journalism, Photographers
