Misha Friedman won PixPalace ANI-2011 with his report on Tuberculosis Epidemic in the former Soviet Union. He received a prize of € 5,000. Tuberculosis is again a very deadly disease – especially in the former Soviet Union. The number of patients with very difficult forms of t...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]

The Grant, supported by Canon France, with 8 000,00 euros is presented to a professional photographer of any age, sex or nationality who wishes to cover a social, economic, political or cultural issue in a journalistic manner. The Award is given in order to allow the winner to pro...

07.07.2012[ read full story ]

While the Wall Street Journal announced the sale of Getty images for nearly 4 billion dollars as it allegedly inches closer to the low-cost image bank Fotolia, for the second consecutive year, a Getty photojournalist, Sebastian Liste, has received the coveted Prix Rémi Ochlik ...

06.07.2012[ read full story ]

Twelve Photographers from four continents on Prix Pictet 'Power' Shortlist. The names of the twelve photographers, whose outstanding portfolios on the theme of Power have been shortlisted for the fourth Prix Pictet, was announced this evening in the opening week of the global pho...

05.07.2012[ read full story ]

The Prix Leica Oskar Barnack 2012 was awarded to the American photographer Frank Hallam Day for his “Alumascapes”. The jury was composed of Bruce Gilden (Magnum), Stephan Erfurt (C/O Berlin), Valérie Fougeirol (Galerie Magnum-Paris), Karin Rehn-Kaufmann (Leica Salzburg)...

02.07.2012[ read full story ]

When two photo enthusiasts find themselves at the head of historical institutions of photography, they end up organising two awards that will most likely permanently mark the landscape of photo editing. Chris Boot, Executive Director of the Aperture Foundation, and Julien...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

Founded in 2011 in partnership with Fotografiska, the Swedish Museum of Photography, Stockholm Photography Week 2012 organized an international portfolio review. The prize for best portfolio was awarded to the Polish photographer Maciej Pisuk, for the series "Under the skin. P...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

Sarker Naman Protick from the Pathshala South Asian Media Academy in Dahka, Bangladesh was awarded the Prix Mark Grosset in the “Reportage” category with his work “Of River And Lost Lands”. “This is a story of two villages and a river. Once, there ...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

With her series « Holy Days » Marie Ormières of the Ecole Supérieure de Photographie et d'Audiovisuel (EFET) in Paris, was awarded the Art Photography prize. “Summer vacation. Nostalgia remains of those glorious days. I made a pilgrimage back to t...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

The glory of the Dutch Still Life recreated in plastic. To 17th century merchants, the nouveaux riches of the Dutch Golden Age, collecting luxury items and utensils to show off their wealth and life- style was a competition. They revelled in exotic animals and shells fro...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]