The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie is designed to promote the "new generation of photographers.” It is open to photographers of any age or nationality who haven’t yet printed a monograph. It was created in April 1995 under the aegis of the Fondation de France. 
A first selection from nearly ...

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

Snow fell on Dresden the evening before a ceremony commemorating the city’s catastrophic destruction nearly seventy years ago. On the night of February 13, 1945, Allied bombs claimed 25,000 lives, many of them civilians. Inside the reconstructed Semperoper opera house of the Saxon ca...

16.02.2012[ read full story ]

WORLD PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR 2011
Samuel Aranda, Spain, for The New York Times
A woman holds a wounded relative during protests against president Saleh, Sanaa, Yemen, 15 October

13.02.2012[ read full story ]

On February 8th, Jean-Marie Périer and Jean-Paul Goude were inducted into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The honor, presented by Frédéric Mitterand, French Minister of Culture and Communication, recognizes outstanding contributions to the arts. The complete text of M...

13.02.2012[ read full story ]

It's a great honor to receive this prestigious award. In light of past recipients and the valuable work the Eastman House has done in film preservation, photography and the captured image, I'm very grateful to have been recognized by such a distinguished group.

16.02.2012[ read full story ]

The ICP (International center of Photography) just annonced the recepient of the 28e annual infinity award. The 2012 honorees will be celebrated on Wednesday, May 2, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers.

13.02.2012[ read full story ]

For the past 17 years, Voies Off has offered an alternative approach to emerging contemporary photography, its particularities, its evolutions, and its areas of resistance.

07.02.2012[ read full story ]

Since 2006, SFR has revealed and accompanied Young Talents. In association with the City of Paris and during the exhibition Doisneau Paris Les Halles, eight “Young SFR Talents” took pictures of the current transformations under way in « Les Halles neighborhood ».

08.02.2012[ read full story ]

As in past year's, participants to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012 must download the application from the website www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com. Entries must be sent by March 1st, 2012. Recipients of the "Leica Oskar Barnack Award” receive 5000 Euros, and a digital Leica M...

03.02.2012[ read full story ]

John MacDougall, a photojournalist at Agence France-Presse, was awarded the “Rückblende,” one of the most prestigious German photography prizes, for an image taken during a memorial service for three soldiers killed in Afghanistan. MacDougall is the first AFP photographer to r...

27.01.2012[ read full story ]