The Rovinj Photodays festival and the annual contest offer a platform for the promotion of the photographers’ work, as well as the possibility of adequate media promotion and cooperation with gallery and art institutions whose representatives are part of organization and advisory boards.

The official festival finale programme will be announced in March. The finale and official award-winning ceremony will be held in Rovinj, on June 1, and will include a series of photo exhibitions, as well as workshops, lectures, portfolio reviews, and other events. 

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Look at the gallery of last years contestants.

Jury

planning a new exhibition- visiting CRAF (Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia)

A picture of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang, early October 5, 2011. North Korea appeared to make small, tightly-controlled steps toward the West in 2011, including an agreement with the Associated Press to set up the first permanent text and photo bureau operated by a Western news organization in the capital of Pyongyang. (Reuters/Damir Sagolj)

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Congratulations go to Brent Stirton for his double win at World Press Photo 2012! He won a 1st prize for Rhino Wars (shot for National Geographic) in the Nature; Stories category, and a 1st prize in Contemporary Issues; Singles, for his portrait of Maria, a drug addicted sex worker from his AIDS in Ukraine story. 

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World Press Photo 2012 winners announced

View theentire collection of winning images from the 55th World Press Photo Contest.The winners were selected from over 100,000 images submitted to the contest.

postcardsfromamerica:

The limited edition Postcards From America box set is a collection of objects – a book, five bumper stickers, a newspaper, two fold-outs, three cards, a poster and five zines, all in a signed and numbered box – that collectively document the experience. Edition of 500, signed by all five photographers and the writer. $250 (Price will go to $350 on February 1, 2012.)

Buy it here: http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/

RIP Yasuhiro Ishimoto (14 June 1921 - 6 February 2012) 

Children at Halloween, Chicago 1952

“KUNSTNETZWERK (modern contemporary art gallery and network) and founder Raed Bawayah (photographer), in collaboration with « Eyes-On » the European Month of Photography Vienna will organize the first Vienna International Photographic Awards « VIPA » in 2012 for documentary photography. Our mission is to salute the achievements of the world’s finest photographers, to discover new and emerging talents, and to promote and enhance contemporary photography in Austria and all over the world. The « VIPA » conduct an annual competition for professional, non-professional and student photographers.”