Category Archives: competitions/awards

12X12 Vancouver Photo Marathon

The 12×12 Vancouver Photo Marathon is on August 18th! Tickets go on sale, Wednesday July 18th, 2012 at 8pm Price: $36 per ticket (only one ticket per person) Number of Tickets Available: 60 Find out more here.

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event: 12 x 12 vancouver photo marathon

The Annual Vancouver Photo Marathon is quickly approaching on August 6th, 2011. It is a fun challenge designed to test the skill, creativity and quick thinking of photographers. Each participant is given a roll of film with 12 exposures and over the time frame of 12 hours they are given 12 themes that are to [...]

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life: photo blog awards

Life Magazine is awarding the best online photography blogs to date. Many, if not all, should be added to your favorites bar. BagNews Notes, The Picture Show, The New York Times’ Lens, Pictory Blog, La Lettre de la Photographie, The Sartorialist, Time LightBox, What’s the Jackanory?, 500 Photographers, Photojojo, American Suburb X, PDN Photo of the Day + many more via life.com

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emily carr: degree exhibition awards

Recipients of the 2011 Degree Exhibition Awards were selected May 6, 2011, by a jury of accomplished Emily Carr alumni comprised of Susan Mavor – Creative Director and Owner of Metaform Communication Design, Jenifer Papararo – Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Damian Moppett – Artist, and Zoran Dragelj – Filmmaker. Criteria for the awards [...]

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snap!stars photography contest winners: alexa kirsten stroth + phoebe hua jin

Alexa Kirsten Stroth, Untitled, 2008 Hua Jin, Emoh, 2010 / 11 A BIG congratulations to Phoebe Hua Jin and Alexa Kirsten Stroth for winning this years SNAP! Photography Competition. They each received $1,500 towards their education and a $50 coupon from Blurb. Awesome!

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ny times: elliott erwitt

“On Tuesday, the Magnum photographer and filmmaker Elliott Erwitt, 82, will receive the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Center of Photography, which will exhibit his favorite pictures as “Personal Best,” beginning May 20. For the occasion, he agreed to let his son Misha Erwitt, a photographer himself, present him with a list of questions that [...]

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2011 Jeune Tete D’Affiche Contest

Jeune Tete D’Affiche Contest is calling for proposals for students from Canadian universities or Canadian students abroad who completed a MFA (Masters Degree in Fine Arts) this year. “Dazibao offers an artist graduating in 2010-2011 with a Master’s   degree in Fine Arts, the chance to make his or her photographic  work  known. Dazibao’s programming brochure [...]

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Canon Photography Award deadline

Detail of Phyllis Schwartz’s photographic drawing, “Helix,” which won first place in the 2010 Canon Photography Award. The deadline for the 2011 Canon Photography Award is this coming Tuesday, April 26th. Graduating photo students: fill out this form for a chance to win one of three very excellent prizes. Plus, mad prestige.

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Caitlin Hildebrant: finalist for Nikon’s Photographers Forum 31st Annual Student Photography Contest

Back in January, ECU photo student Caitlin Hildebrant was picked as one of the top 1500 photographers from 13 960 entries to Nikon’s Photographers Forum 31st Annual Student Photography Contest. All the finalists make it into their annual hardcover photography book. IMPRESSIVE.

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(This is late, but…) WINNERS!

The Snap!Stars winners have been announced (ahem… recently), and Emily Carr has TWO winners: Alexa Kirsten Stroth (shown above) and Hua Jin (shown below). You can see their works and the other winning pieces on the Snap! Toronto website. All winning works will be auctioned off at a special gala in Toronto, with proceeds going [...]

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