Photojournalism

A staff photographer for The Blade who digitally altered a front-page photo has resigned, the newspaper said Monday. Allan Detrich had told Blade editors that he altered a photo of a college baseball team for his personal files and mistakenly sent it to the newspaper. The photo showed Bluffton University players kneeling March 30 at their first game after a bus crash killed five players in Atlanta...

An image of stylish Lebanese youths driving through a Beirut neighbourhood devastated by Israeli bombing, taken by US photographer Spencer Platt, has won the World Press Photo of the Year award, the jury announced today. The image contrasts a group of friends against a background of the wreckage of a collapsed building. Tellingly, one woman grimaces as she uses her mobile phone to send a text...

LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters named a new chief photographer for the Middle East on Thursday and said it had tightened its editing procedures after the publication last year of two photographs that had been digitally altered. The measures were among several steps announced by David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of the global news and information agency, following an internal investigation that he said...

MUMBAI, DEC 2 : Sometimes a photograph says what an entire news report cannot. Whether it's a riot-stricken city or people displaced by natural calamities, it is often the photojournalist who braves his surroundings for that perfect frame. The India Press Photo Awards instituted by The Ramnath Goenka Foundation are an initiative to identify, promote and reward excellence in photojournalism and...

It's hard for Carlos Patiño, a 24-year old photographer for the local La Opinión newspaper, to do his job these days: In addition to living in one of Colombia's most conflictive areas and working for an often-targeted publication, he has two bodyguards with him at all times. They accompany Patiño because of threats he received after photographing the arrest of a suspected drug trafficker at the...

Thomas James Hurst of The Seattle Times has won first prize in E&P's annual Photos of the Year contest. He receives $1,000 and a Canon EOS-1D Mark II N digital SLR camera. The seventh annual Photos of the Year contest, sponsored by Canon, produced a record number of entries this year. Prize-winning photographs were selected from hundreds of entries in four categories (news, features, sports, and...

The fall deadline for the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography is November 15, 2005. Getty awards five $20,000 grants annually to photojournalists selected by a panel of judges. Applicants must submit a 500-word proposal explaining a chosen journalistic project along with a portfolio of previous work. Judges for the current contest include Giovanna Calvenzi, director of photography at...

Gaza withdrawal. © Marco Di Lauro A shot of two Palestinian boys watching men stand on the roof of the remains of a synagogue at the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip has won the grand prize at Editor & Publisher's Sixth Annual Photos of the Year contest. Marco Di Lauro of Getty Images won the prize for the photograph taken as Palestinians celebrated the Israeli withdrawal on September 12...

The photo was of a motor-cross competitor taking a tumble from his motorcycle. The year, 1955. The award – the first ever World Press Photo of the Year. Almost every year since has seen a contest and a winning image. Some of the photos have become legion – a naked girl running after a napalm attack in Vietnam; a Buddhist monk who has set himself alight; a lone demonstrator standing in front of...

Canon, in coordination with Johns Hopkins University in the United States, is holding a photography contest focusing on local health and development issues. October 15 is the submission deadline. Professional and amateur photographers worldwide are eligible to enter for prizes in eight categories. Winners can receive up to US$300 and digital cameras. The categories: family planning and...