Winners for this year's World Press Photo Competition have been announced. British Photographer Tim Hetherington won the 2007 World Press Photo of the Year, for his image of a US soldier resting in a bunker. Other winners include John Moore/Getty Images, who won 1st Place Singles and 1st Place Stories in the Spot News Category, and Balazs Gardi/VII Network/Alexia Foundation, who won 1st Place in both Singles and Stories in the General News Category. Check out the complete list, along with the winning images. The Px3 Photo Competition has also announced their winners: 1st Place- Stephanie Sinclair, The Bride Price 2nd Place- Juliana Beasley, Eyes of Salamanca 3rd Place- Marco Di Lauro, Chad Refugees Sinclair's work is also being shown in a separate exhibition in a special one-day exhibition on Capitol Hill, hosted by the International Center for Research on Women. The exhibition on February 25 from 4:30-6 is open to all,…

The Open Society Institute’s Documentary Photography Project is pleased to announce upcoming 2008 deadlines. For complete application guidelines, please see the attached documents and visit their website at: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Moving Walls 15 Deadline: Friday, March 28, 2008, 5pm (Eastern Standard Time) OSI's Documentary Photography Project invites photographers to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls 15 group exhibition. Moving Walls is an annual documentary photography exhibition that represents the obstacles—such as political oppression, economic instability, and racism—that society often erects and the struggles to tear those barriers down. 2008 Distribution Grant Deadline: Friday, June 20, 2008 at 5pm (Eastern Standard Time) OSI's Documentary Photography Project is offering a grant to documentary photographers who have already completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to collaborate with a partner organization and propose new ways of using photography as a tool…

Maybe things haven't changed that much in the last two years?

This month's Digital Journalist features work from two renowned photographers, both with new books out. David Kennerly has just released "Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford"- an intimate look at the daily life in the White House during Ford's administration. Another well-known White House photographer, Diana Walker, has also released a book- "The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits" - featuring not only the high-profile subjects she's often known for, but also portraits of everyday life. Other features this month include an editorial on imprisoned AP Photographer Bilal Hussein, and dispatches from Chris Hondros, William B. Plowman, and Véronique de Viguerie.