World Press Photo interviewed the 2008 winning photographers about their images, and has posted the interviews on their site. You can hear Tim Hetherington discuss his World Press Photo of the Year, listen to Platon speak about photographing Putin, and check out over 20 additional interviews. The 2007 Interviews are also online if you missed them last year.
If you're in NYC, take some time this weekend to head over to DUMBO for the inaugural New York Photo Festival. You can see the schedule of events, check out the nominees for the New York Photo Awards (winners to be announced tomorrow night), and check out the exhibition map.
The May issue of The Digital Journalist is now online. This month features a slideshow from the four photographers- Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of The Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek- who were killed over Laos in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down by North Vietnamese gunfire. The remains of the four were recently interred in the new Newseum in Washington, D.C. If you don't have time to read anything else on the site this month, definitely check out the exceptional work of these four men.
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states. From now through May 1st, fans around the world can register and cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com. Of course, we'd love for you to vote for these projects: WEBSITE ENTRIES: Category: BROADBAND MediaStorm Category: CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS NONPROFIT Katrina: An Unnatural DisasterOpen Society Institute / Produced by MediaStorm ONLINE FILM AND VIDEO ENTRIES: Category: NEWS & POLITICS: INDIVIDUAL EPISODE Finding the Way Home by Brenda Ann Kenneally MediaStorm Category: PUBLIC SERVICE AND ACTIVISM Eyes on ZimbabweOpen Society Institute / Produced by MediaStorm Category: BEST WRITING Evidence of My Existence by Jim Lo Scalzo US News & World Report / Also on MediaStorm.org …
Congratulations to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography. Her story, Remember Me, is an intimate look at how one family deals with a parents' terminal illness. The connection Preston made with Carolynne St. Pierre and her family in the almost two years she documented their lives is amazing. Watch the story. Adrees Latif of Reuters was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography, for his photograph of a Japanese videographer killed during a street demonstration in Myanmar. Congratulations also to the other finalists in these categories: David Guttenfelder (AP) and Mona Reeder (Dallas Morning News) for Feature Photography, and Mahmud Hams (Agence France-Presse) and the Los Angeles Times Staff for Breaking News Photography. Also worth mentioning, the Washington Post won six awards, including the Public Service Prize, for a story on wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, which photographer Michael du…