Amnesty International has presented its special award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat to Dina Meza – an investigative journalist who works for monthly e-magazine Revistazo.com in Honduras. At its annual awards ceremony earlier tonight, Dina Mesa was given the award for continuing to work in danger as a result of her human rights journalism. Ms Meza [...]

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 [...]

Tyler Hicks, a staff photographer for the New York Times, was named the newspaper photographer of the year by the Missouri School of Journalism’s Pictures of the Year International (POYI) contest. POYI Director Rick Shaw said Hicks was chosen by a panel of judges for work that he said balances artistry with journalism. “The thing that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reuters has fired Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj after he transmitted at least two photographs from Lebanon that were doctored to make Israeli attacks seem more dramatic. The news agency said Monday it is investigating Hajj’s other work and has withdrawn all of Hajj’s photos, about 920 images, from its archives as a precaution. Hajj’s career with [...]

A group of journalists traveling together in southern Lebanon, including several photographers, helped rescue trapped civilians this week in two towns damaged by Israeli missiles. “[There were] far too many old people and children who simply couldn’t make it across the rubble,” said Polaris photographer Timothy Fadek, who helped rescue people at both scenes. “We simply [...]

As Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have escalated in the past two weeks, photographers flocking to cover the conflict have encountered particularly difficult and dangerous conditions. A Lebanese freelance photographer, 23-year-old Layal Nagib, died July 24 when a bomb exploded near her car during an Israeli attack on Cana, near the coastal city of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]