Ian Parry Scholarship, an international award for documentary and photojournalism deadline is announced - June 30th!

The Ian Parry Scholarship deadline has been announced June 30th 2012. The international photography award is open to photojournalists & documentary photographers on full time courses or 24 years old and under. The prize is £3,500 plus an assignment for Save The Children & all the finalist's work will be published in the Sunday Times magazine & exhibited in a London Gallery www.ianparry.org

Posted by Rebecca McClelland on May 9^th 2012

Foto8 Summer Show application deadline extended 15 May

Photographers now have a final two weeks to get their images submitted to the Foto8 Summershow, before the deadline of 15 May.

Enter now for your chance to
- be included in the highly-acclaimed exhibition of over 150 prints at Foto8 Gallery including your free ticket to the launch party on 6 July
- win £2000 as Best in Show
- win photographic equipment as the People's Choice recipient
- have your work judged by Gerry Badger, Phil Coomes, Alison Jackson, Simon Roberts and Ossian Ward

Enter up to three images online now before 15 May, for only £20

Posted by Rebecca McClelland on April 30^th 2012

Student Photo Competition

The Higher Education Academy is looking for a photograph/digital image which captures how it feels to study the Arts and Humanities when studying the Arts and Humanities is at its best. All entries will be displayed at the Arts and Humanities annual conference and the student who submits the HEA's favourite image will win the choice of either a new third generation iPad 16 GB, 4G with WiFi or £450 in Book Tokens. Details of the competition are available on the main event page.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/academyevents/AH_Conferenc...

Posted by Anna Fox on April 20^th 2012

NEWS - Media History Journal – Graduate Student Essay Prize

Media History, the Routledge journal, is pleased to announce the annual Media History Graduate Student Essay Prize.

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2012

Media History seek to encourage new and innovative scholarship in the field ‘media history’, broadly defined, and have established this prize to highlight the best new work in the field undertaken by current graduate students.

Posted by Anna Fox on April 20^th 2012

Papworth Trust 2012 Photography Exhibition

The competition theme for 2012 is inspiration, which is one of the four Paralympic values. Inspiration means different things to everyone, but interpretations could include:

an inspiring action or influence
the result of inspired activity
a thing or person that inspires you.

The competition will be judged in the following categories:
16 years and under
over 16 years professional photographers and previous photography competition winners.

Find out more.

Posted by on October 2^nd 2011

YOUR VOTE COUNTS IN THE GRANGE PRIZE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

OK, everyone, online voting for the Grange Prize has begun, please vote and make a difference. It's photography, and we know that you all practice it in one form or another, so it's dead easy. Just vote for the work you like. This is prize where you are the judge.

http://thegrangeprize.com/grange-prize-2011

Posted by Anna Fox on September 3^rd 2011

IdeasTap Competition

IdeasTap, the online arts and funding organisation for young creatives, have teamed up with Sky Arts to launch a new bursary for young artists.

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund will offer five young artists £30,000 each to fund their work for a full year. The fund is open to artists aged 18-30 living in the UK and Ireland, and is designed to bridge the gap between formal education and becoming a working artist.

The Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is open to individual artists working in visual art, theatre, performance art, film, music, dance or literature.

Posted by on June 27^th 2011

On the Concrete, foto8 seminar

Foto8 has drawn together leading practitioners and voices in the field of street photography for a unique two-day seminar as part of the
Format Festival 2011, inc Tom Wood, Mark Power, Davis Campany, Polly Braden and Cheryl Dunn.

This seminar takes place at the Derby QUAD, on Friday 1 April 2011: 6.30pm - 9.30pm and Saturday 2 April 2011: 10am - 5pm

Please see link for further details:

http://www.foto8.com/new/events/seminar-on-the-concrete-11

Posted by on March 20^th 2011

Scholarships for European Master of Fine Art Photography

Master Madrid is launching a contest to win scholarships for the European Master of Fine Art Photography. The first prize is a scholarship that covers the cost of the course fee, equivalent to 9.000 €. There will be two second prizes which will cover 50% of the course fee, each equivalent to 4.500 €.

Read more on its website

Posted by on January 17^th 2011

FotoEvidence Book Award

Once a year the FotoEvidence Book Award will recognize a documentary project addressing a violation of human rights, a significant injustice, or an assault on human dignity. The selected project will be published in a book, as part of a series of FotoEvidence books dedicated to the work of photographers whose commitment and courage create an awareness of social injustice.

Awards:

Posted by Maria Kapajeva on December 9^th 2010