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Current Photography Competitions and Grants – May 2015
There are a huge number of photography competitions and grants currently vying for your images. We have listed the details and deadlines below, with links, to help make it easier for you to enter and find them all. Hope this helps! If you know of anymore competitions, please let me know and I will add them to this list.
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hEAdoN Photo Festival with Ben Lowy
Head On turns the city of Sydney into a living cross-section of cutting edge photography and video media. Exhibiting across all genres and experiences, Head On is a platform for the passion of the photographers, the excitement of the audiences, the beauty of the medium and the issues photography addresses. Head On is a bridge between Australian and International photographic markets. In 2014 alone, Head On exhibited 55 artists from 18 countries. Festival tours in America, China and New Zealand introduced the international photographic elite and audiences in excess of 500, 000 to the wealth of photographic talent Australia possess with great acclaim. There’s a fabulous masterclass workshop entitled ‘creating…
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Getty Images Instagram Grant – Up To $30,000 To Be Awarded
Getty Images have announced a collaboration with Instagram to offer a grant to support photographers using Instagram to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world. A total of three grants of $10,000 each will be awarded. Winners will not only receive a cash grant, they will also have the opportunity for mentorship with award-winning Getty Images photographers. Application deadline – June 4, 2015, 11.59 pm (GMT) To find out more and to enter, go here.
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Getty Images – Grants for Editorial Photography
We all believe that photojournalism is a powerful tool for telling compelling social, political and cultural stories. We also understand that creating and managing world-class photography assignments requires time, freedom, support and considerable resources. That is why Getty continue to offer the Grants for Editorial Photography, which in 2015 will provide five total grants of $10,000 each to photojournalists pursuing projects of personal and journalistic significance. Since its launch in 2004, the Grants for Editorial Photography celebrate and support independent photojournalism, evidenced by the many dynamic and compelling projects completed over the years. You can view the works of previous grant winners here. The Grants for Editorial Photography will be…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #30
Welcome back to our thirtieth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Fashion Magazine Shoots…
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Ten commission opportunities offered by FotoDocument with Photoworks
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We previously mentioned Getty Images’ Creative Grants with an Additional Award of $20K for works that focus on enpowering women and girls, if you missed that please go here. Today, we’d like to bring to your attention another wonderful photo opportunity. Photoworks are partnering FotoDocument and BioRegional to commission ten public space photo essays…
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Getty Images – Creative Grants Offered With Additional Award of $20k for Work that Focuses on Empowering Women and Girls
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their mobile photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We’re starting today with an outstanding opportunity from Getty Images. They offer two grants of $20,000 to non profit organisations each year but this year inspired by their partnership with Lean In, they have made available an additional $20,000 to be shared by the photographer and creative agency whose joint proposal is to…
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iOS Photography Tool App – Top Model Release – Temporary Price Drop
Model Releases are an essential element of professional photography and this app, Top Model Release allows you to organise your work without the headache. There are many similar style apps available in the Apple App Store but this one is particularly good as recommended by Scott Kelby and Rick Sammon among others and it has also been approved by Getty Images and iStockPhoto. Top Model Release allows you, as you might expect, to create, edit and process model releases on your iOS device. Once the document has been created and signed, it can be emailed directly to the client too, for record keeping. This particular app is US dedicated in…
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Our Daily App Giveaway – 645 PRO
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away 645 PRO apps today, one of the greatest photography apps for your iPhone. We published a tutorial a while back to help you get the most from it. If you missed that go here. Photographer Daniel Berekulak also recently used it to capture some stunning shots of Kabul, you can read about that here. Usually 645 PRO retails for $2.99/£1.99 but would…
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Free – Getty Images iPad Book – ‘Year in Focus’
An editorial photograph is so much more than pixels or ink on a page. It is the result of a photographer’s ability to capture a critical instant in time, and an editor’s unique judgment giving it further impetus to reach their audience. The photographer’s mission is to bring each and every situation to life in a way that empowers a publisher to impart a deeper understanding of the world to their readership. Getty Images are proud to bring you this year in review from their award winning team of photographers. This book consists of 47 pages of stunning images for free/click here to download and enjoy on your iPad. Please note…
