Awards, Grants, and Competitions | Deadlines and Recipients | September 2012
Deadlines
Lens Culture International Exposure Awards : September 18
Format Festival 2013 : September 19
Portrait Salon : September 21
Magnum Showcase in association with IdeasTap : September 24
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award : September 30
Marie Colvin Scholarship opportunity at Sunday Times Magazine… NB for writers

Marie Colvin. Photo © Ivor Prickett
Marie Colvin Scholarship : September 30
BJP’s 2012 International Photography Award : October 1

Photo © Alice Smeets
Unicef Photo of The Year 2008
Unicef Photo of the Year : NB photographers have to be nominated but you can get in touch with nominators in the hope of your work being put forward to the judging panel. Some of the nominators are Sherri Dougherty, and photographers Patrick Brown and James Whitlow Delano. You can send a sample of a maximum of 15 light jpeg files (72 dpi; 1200 pixels on the longest side) for consideration in a zip file via We Transfer, to one of the three. Emails: ssdougherty@gmail.com; mail@patrickbrownphoto.com ;james@jameswhitlowdelano.com : October 3
College Photographer of the Year : October 7
International Prize of Humanitarian Photography Luis Valtueña : October 31
Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2012 : October 31
PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards : November 1
Pikto Top Pick Photo Contest : November 1
Aftermath Project grant : November 5
Prix Lucas Dolega to honor photojournalists who have reported under difficult circumstanstances in memory of photographer Lucas Dolega (1978-2011) who died in 2011 covering the Arab Spring in Tunisia.
Prix Lucas Dolega : November 15
Terry O’Neill/Tag Award 2012 : November 22
The Magnum Expression Award : February 23, 2013
The Inquisitive Photography Prize
Recipients
Stephanie Sinclair was presented with unprecedented third Visa d’Or Prize at Visa pour l’image in the beginning of September for her Child Brides project. The series was partly shot for the National Geographic… You can see the NGM feature from the June 2011 issue here.

Photo © Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie Sinclair wins third Visa d’Or prize (BJP) | Stephanie Sinclair Honored Again at Perpignan Festival (NYT Lens)
The above links also include info on the other Visa pour l’image winners: Visa d’Or news award to Eric Bouvet for his coverage from Bab al-Azizia, Libya, for Le Figaro Magazine; Visa d’Or daily press award to Tomas Munita for his photographs of the conflict in Syria for The New York Times; City of Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award to Sebastian Liste for his photographs of a community of squatters living in an abandoned chocolate factory in the center of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil; Prix Ani to Misha Friedman for his report on tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union ; Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Grant to Maciek Nabrdalik for his for report on economic migration in Europe; and Canon Female Photojournalist Award to Sarah Caron. Congratulations to all.
Getty Image handed out four $20,000 grants during Visa pour l’image…

Photo © Bharat Choudhary
Getty Awards $80,000 to Four Photojournalists at Perpignan (Lightbox) | Getty Images awards $80,000 worth of grants to four photojournalists (BJP)
Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant Winner: Tim Matsui
Joel Meyerowitz, David LaChapelle Among This Year’s Lucie Award Honorees (Mediabistro)
The New York Photo Awards 2012 Finalists
International Photography Awards 2012 Winners
Guardian gallery to Taylor Wessing shortlisted four and couple of the other exhibited portraits…

Photo © Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize 2012 shortlisted (Guardian)
The Royal Photographic Society Annual Awards | more info (pdf)