Canon Female Photojournalist Award

Canon and the Association des Femmes Journalistes (AFJ) have opened submissions for the tenth competition to find 2010’s Canon Female Photojournalist of the year.

Sponsored by Canon France and granted by AFJ, the winner will receive an €8000 prize and a photojournalistic project.

The competition is open to any female professional photojournalist of any age or nationality.

This year’s applicants will be judged both upon the presentation of their project, the quality of their photographs, relevance of their chosen subject, the inspiration behind their story and any previous work.

The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2010, and a jury will select a winner in June.

You can read the rules and dowload an application package from the Canon Female Photojournalist Award site.

Burn photo grant deadline extended

The deadline for the photo grant issued by Burn magazine has been extended until May 1.

The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award

This year, the Pierre & Alexandra Boulat award, supported by Canon Europe, will be launched at Perpignan, during the Festival Visa pour l'Image.

The intention of the award is to allow the winner to produce a story that has never been told but that the photographer cannot find support for within the media.

You can download the application package here. The deadline for submissions are June 30.

Conveying emotion to the viewer...

"My Mum died suddenly on September 4th, 2006. After she died, I realized how much she'd been shielding me from my father's mental state. He doesn't have Alzheimer's, but he has no short-term memory, and is often lost. I took him to the funeral, but when he got home, he kept asking me every 15 minutes where my mother was. I had to explain over and over again, that she had died. This was shocking news to him.... -Phillip Toledono writes in the opening passage of a photo essay about his father.

We are looking at this moving photo essay to see how emotion and intimacy can be conveyed to the viewer in pictures and by the accompanying captions. When creating a photo essay, it's important not only to communicate the concept behind the story, but also the emotional content.

There are many ways to edit, sequence and lay out your photo essay. In class, we will be looking at some things to consider in this regard.