12 photographers selected for 2013 World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass ‘World Press Photo awards’ has selected 12 young photographers for the 2013 edition of the annual Joop Swart Masterclass. The World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass is a six-day masterclass meeting to be held in Amsterdam. Each year,…

2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced, All Depict Syrian Civil War  Columbia University has announced the winning photographs of both the Breaking News and Feature Photography Pulitzer prizes for 2013 — all of which depict the heartrending civil war in Syria. At first glance that may not seem like a big…

Michele Palazzi has been named the 2013 winner of the CIWEM Italian photographer Michele Palazzi has been named the 2013 winner of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management’s Environmental Photographer of the Year Award (CIWEM) for an image shot in the Gob desert of Mongolia. The Rome-based photographer,…

Carl Zeiss has won five product design prizes at the prestigious iF design awards 2013 Carl Zeiss has won five product design prizes at the prestigious iF design awards 2013, night. In fact, three ZEISS camera lenses and two cine lenses were presented with the award recently, at a…

  Photo Caption:“Spins 3, 2012” by Taiyo Dnorato & Nico Krebs, the winners of the 2013 Foan Paul Huf Award The photography duo, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs of Switzerland have been named the winners of the 2013 Foam Paul Huf Award that was announced recently. The award, given…

  Photo Caption: In book Sputnik, published in 1997 Joan Fontcuberta cast himself as the ill-fated cosmonaut Ivan Istochnikov.  The Catalan photographer, Joan Fontcuberta has won the 2013 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in photography. The award includes a prize money of 110,000 Euro (approximately $143,000 US), an exhibition at the Hasselblad…