Here’s a good news story for local photojournalists! Australians are over-achievers when it comes to the prestigious World Press Photo Contest. The world leading photojournalism contest published data in its 2018 Technical Report, which shows Australians win awards every year, … Continue reading
A picture by Ronaldo Schemidt of a Venezuelan protester who caught fire during a violent clash with riot police photographer has won the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year Award. Two Australian photographers, Patrick Brown and Adam Ferguson, were … Continue reading
Two Australian photographers, Patrick Brown and Adam Ferguson, are in the running to win the prestigious 2018 World Press Photo (WPP) Contest. For the first time the WPP went public with the six nominees’ in consideration for the top prize, … Continue reading
World Press Photo Contest has revealed the 2017 winners, with Turkish photographer Burhan Ozbilici winning Photographer of the Year for controversial images showing the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey. Ozbilici, working for Associated Press, photographed the assassination of … Continue reading
A recent high-level global study, ‘The State of News Photography‘, has surveyed 1556 photojournalists from over 100 countries to reveal 20 key findings about the current state of news photography. Some of the findings paint a portrait of the average … Continue reading
When the 2014 World Press Photo (WPP) contest results were revealed earlier this month, they were accompanied by WPP managing director Lars Boering’s comments regarding the ‘integrity of the entries‘. Boering (pictured right) said 20 percent of entries that made it … Continue reading
The results for the 2014 World Press Photo Contest are in and Australian photographer Raphaela Rosella has landed first prize in the Portrait category. Raphaela, a Brisbane-based documentary photographer, photographed a young girl from Moree, NSW as she waited for … Continue reading
