Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2012 winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. Brian Storm from MediaStorm is the first web recipient of a duPont Award, for Undesired, by Walter Astrada for the Alexia Foundation.

23.01.2012[ read full story ]

The Lucas Dolega Prize, named after the 32 years old reporter who died last January in Tunis, was given to Emilio Morenatti. The ceremony happened yesterday in the salons of the Hotel de Ville, with the mayor Bertrand Delanoe.

19.01.2012[ read full story ]

On January 18th, the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë will present the Lucas Dolega 2012 award to Emilio Morenatti, a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press. It is the first edition of this new award created by the Lucas Dolega association in memory of this young ph...

09.01.2012[ read full story ]

The Roswitha Haftmann Foundation board awarded Cindy Sherman with the 150,000 CHF Foundation Prize. The prize awarded by the Foundation, created in 1999 according to the wishes of the late Roswitha Haftmann (1924-1998), is given to "living artists producing...

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

The Icart Photo Grand Prize was awarded to Thomas Morel-Fort for his series "vu de l'extérieur" (views from the outside). "In this series, I took pictures of sports from a distance" commented the photographer. Before turning to photography, Thomas Morel-Fort studied th...

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

Pierre-Marie Drapeau-Martin, born in 1991, is a third year student at the Paris Icart-Photo School. He tried to show the universal nature of sports by focusing on the body and matter.

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

Delphine Lefebvre is a young French photographer. She leans toward staged photo reportages. To cover sports, she followed the women's rugby team of Chilly-Essonne.

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

This series is devoted to the stadiums of past centuries, to the forms and details that don't allow us to recognize them, but to perceive them differently. A crossroads ignored by the masses.

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

After the landscape studies that introduced her to the environment, Sandra Carrico, 21, began taking pictures of nature. She quickly switched gears, focusing on the banalities of daily life otherwise ignored. This project seeks to take city dwellers out of their indifference t...

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

The American photographer received the $50,000 prize for his panoramic series, Seeing Rural Appalachia, A Photographic Journal. Previous winners include the visual artists Kara Walker and Catherine Opie, the illustrator Chris Ware, the designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy,...

14.12.2011[ read full story ]