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11/12/2016

What does the photo tell about an event? What is its emotional and editorial force? How does it compare to others in the same category? The jury had to balance an event that best symbolized 2015, then a photo to best represent that event. The debate on the last two images lasted an hour, but it took...

11/12/2016

Hope for a New Life
Spot News, first prize singles
August 28, 2015
A baby is handed through a hole in a razor wire barrier, to a Syrian refugee who has already managed to cross the border from Serbia into Hungary, near Röszke.

Hungary was hardening its stance towards refugees attempting to enter the country. In July, Hungary began construction on a four-meter-high barrier fence along the entire length of the frontier with Serbia, to close off border crossings through all but official routes. Refugees attempted to find ways through before the fence was completed on 14 September. This group had spent four hours hiding in an apple orchard at night, dodging border police, being gassed with pepper spray, and trying to find a way across.

11/12/2016

Photographer of the year

04/04/2016

Final call for entries to National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition 2016

LONDON (2 December 2015) — Do you dream of shooting for the UK’s best-loved travel magazine? National Geographic Traveller’s annual Photography Competition aims to find the best new talent and send winners on an amazing photographic commission to destinations including Tanzania, Vietnam and Iceland. With the deadline –13 December – looming, this is a final call for entries to all photographers from amateur, to mobile, to professional.

Selected entrants will be included in a global press and media campaign and have their work exhibited at London’s theprintspace in March 2016, ensuring major exposure to the creative industry. theprintspace.co.uk

This year, the categories include

Photography
Upload a single shot in one of four themes: Action, Nature, People, Urban.

NEW: Video
Send us your YouTube/Vimeo link to a 60-second video clip.

NEW: Portfolio
Upload four shots based on a single subject.

NEW: Mobile
Upload a single shot taken on your smartphone.

(For the Video, Portfolio and Mobile categories, as long as the image is travel-based, the subject matter can be anything of your choosing.)

Enter here: natgeotraveller.co.uk/photo-competition-2016

04/04/2016

© Rohan Kelly, Storm Front on Bondi Beach. Sunbather oblivious to the ominous shelf cloud approaching – on Bondi beach. A massive “cloud tsunami” looms over Sydney in a spectacular weather event seen only a few times a year. The enormous shelf cloud rolled in from the sea, turning the sky almost black and bringing violent thunderstorms in its wake.

04/04/2016

© Tim Laman, Tough Times for Orangutans

04/04/2016

© Mauricio Lima – Amazon’s Munduruku Tribe 1. Tapajós River, Itaituba, Pará State, Brazil, on February 10, 2015.
Indigenous children jump into the water as they play around the Tapajós river, in the Munduruku tribal area called Sawré Muybu.

04/04/2016

© Matic Zorman, Waiting to Register. PRESEVO, SERBIA – OCTOBER 7, 2015: A child refugee is covered with raincoat while she waits in line to get registered in Presevo refugee registration camp. Most of the refugees who crossed Serbia try to continue their route towards Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and other countries of the European Union.

04/04/2016

Lu Guang, a Chinese photojournalist, won third prize in the Long-Term Projects Category in the 2015 World Press Photo contest with this picture, Development and Pollution, serial works. Pollution is among the most worrisome byproducts of China's rapid economic growth. [Photo/news.ifeng.com]

04/04/2016

© Warren Richardson – Hope for a New Life. Migrants crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary. World Press Photo of the Year 2015.

The winners of the 2016 World Press Photo contest have just been announced, and the selected images accurately reflect a year of tumult and beauty from across the globe. The winning image titled Hope for a New Life by Australian photographer Warren Richardson depicts a harrowing moment on the Hungarian-Serbian border as a man passes a baby through barbed wire in August of last year. The self-taught photographer camped with a group of 200 people attempting to cross a border for nearly a week while capturing images of their predicament. He shares:

I camped with the refugees for five days on the border. A group of about 200 people arrived, and they moved under the trees along the fence line. They sent women and children, then fathers and elderly men first. I must have been with this crew for about five hours and we played cat and mouse with the police the whole night. I was exhausted by the time I took the picture. It was around three o’clock in the morning and you can’t use a flash while the police are trying to find these people, because I would just give them away. So I had to use the moonlight alone.

Seen here is a selection of our favorite photographs, but you can see an entire gallery of the 59th World Press Photo Contest winners here. The finalists were selected from 82,951 photos made by 5,775 photographers from 128 different countries. All photos courtesy photographers and/or their respective representatives, provided here with permission from the World Press Photo Contest.

01/06/2015