Category: Awards

These films that MediaStorm created for the ICP Infinity Awards this year are simply fantastic. Do yourself a favor and take some time today or this week to watch and appreciate the emotion and power of photography in the world.

Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards. The awards ceremony is also ICP’s primary fundraising benefit, with its revenues assisting the center’s various programs.

ICP commissioned MediaStorm to create a short film about each of the recipients to screen at the awards ceremony and to later remain online. The films serve as an introduction of the recipients to the audience as well as a showcase of their work, highlighting the motivations for honoring them with Infinity Awards.

General Excellence, Print

News, Sports and Entertainment Magazines
Honors large-circulation weeklies, biweeklies and monthlies

Esquire; Fortune; National Geographic; New York; Wired

Service and Fashion Magazines
Honors women’s magazines, including health, fitness and family-centric publications

Harper’s Bazaar; O, The Oprah Magazine; Real Simple; Vogue; Women’s Health

Lifestyle Magazines
Honors food, travel and shelter magazines as well as city and regional publications

Bon Appétit; House Beautiful; Martha Stewart Living; Saveur; Texas Monthly

Special-Interest Magazines
Honors magazines serving targeted audiences, including enthusiast and hobbyist  titles

The Fader; mental_floss; MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History; Outside; Scientific American

Literary, Political and Professional Magazines
Honors small-circulation general-interest magazines as well as academic and scholarly publications

MIT Technology Review; Mother Jones; The New Republic; The Paris Review; Poetry

General Excellence, Digital Media

Chow; Glamour; National Geographic; Pitchfork; Slate

Design

Bon Appétit; BULLETT; Details; New York; TIME

Photography

Bon Appétit; Interview; National Geographic; TIME; W

Feature Photography

• Harper’s Magazine for “The Water of My Land,” photographs by Samuel James; September
• Martha Stewart Living for “A Pilgrim’s Feast,” photographs by Anna Williams; November
• National Geographic for “In the Shadow of Wounded Knee,” by Alexandra Fuller; photographs by Aaron Huey; August
• New York for “What We Saw When The Lights Went Out,” by John Homans; photographs by Iwan Baan, Pari Dukovic, Christopher Griffith, Casey Kelbaugh, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Joseph Michael Lopez, Gus Powell, Joseph Rodriguez and Peter Yang; November 12
• W for “Good Kate, Bad Kate,” by Will Self; photographs by Steven Klein; March

Single-Topic Issue

• Backpacker for “The Survival Issue,” October
• Bloomberg Businessweek for “Election Issue,” October 15-21
• Fast Company for “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies,” March
• Saveur for “The Mexico Issue,” August/September
• Sports Illustrated for “Olympic Preview,” July 23

Magazine Section

• Bon Appétit for “Starters”
• Esquire for “Man at His Best”
• GQ for “The Punch List”
• HGTV Magazine for “Help Wanted”
• New York for “Strategist”

Personal Service

• Esquire for “Fatherhood for Men,” June/July
• GQ for “Marriage: The Most Important, Least Discussed Institution You’ll Ever Be a Part Of,” May
• Los Angeles for “The New Face and Body of Plastic Surgery,” October
• Outside for “Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning,” by Florence Williams; December
• Real Simple for “Women and Time: Setting a New Agenda,” April

Leisure Interests

• Bon Appétit for “The Incredible Egg,” by Carla Lalli Music, April
• ESPN The Magazine for “Fantasy Football,” August 6
• Golf Digest for “Masters Preview,” April
• Los Angeles for “The Food Lover’s Guide to L.A.,” edited by Lesley Bargar Suter; November
• Wired for “How to Be a Geek Dad,” June

Website

Afar; The Atlantic; Golf Digest; National Geographic; Scientific American

Tablet Magazine

Bloomberg Businessweek; Bon Appétit; Esquire; Money; National Geographic

Multimedia

• Field & Stream for “The Best Days of the Rut 2012,” November Print Issue, and “The F&S Rut Reporters” at fieldandstream.com and for iPhone
• Mother Jones for “MoJo Labs: Data Journalism and Graphics“
• National Geographic for “Cheetahs on the Edge,” November iPad Edition
• The New Yorker for “Secrets of Edgewood“
• TIME for Hurricane Sandy Coverage

Video

• The Daily Beast for “How Obama Learned to Kill,” June 6, and “The Keys to the Economy,” October 25, from the Op-Vid Series
• Mother Jones for “Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser,” September 18
• The Oxford American for “Tiny Town!,” June 8, and “I’ll Paint Something Worthwhile,” August 15, from the SoLost Video Series
• Saveur for “How to Make Salsa Verde with Avocado,” August 15, “Martin Yan Makes Scallion Pancakes,” October 10, and “How to Make the Perfect Tempura,” December 4, from the Master Class Video Series
• Sports Illustrated for “Welcome to Friendship Beach,” August 21, and “Loud and Clear,” September 25, from the Underdogs Video Series

Public Interest

• The Atlantic for “The Writing Revolution,” by Peg Tyre; October
• Consumer Reports for “Arsenic in Your Juice,” January, and “Arsenic in Your Food,” November, by Andrea Rock
• The New Yorker for “The Throwaways,” by Sarah Stillman; September 3
• Rolling Stone for “School of Hate,” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely; February 16
• Texas Monthly for “Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives,” by Mimi Swartz; August

Reporting

• Chicago for “Lawbreakers, Lawmakers,” by David Bernstein and Noah Isackson; January
• GQ for “18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque and 1 Man Dead in Ohio,” by Chris Heath; March
• Harper’s Magazine for “All Politics Is Local: Election Night in Peru’s Largest Prison,” by Daniel Alarcón; February
• The New York Times Magazine for “Did You Think About the Six People You Executed?” by Robert F. Worth; May 13
• The New Yorker for “The Implosion,” February 27, and “The War Within,” August 27, by Jon Lee Anderson
• Texas Monthly for “Hannah and Andrew,” by Pamela Colloff; January
• The Texas Observer for “Valley of Death,” by Melissa del Bosque; March

Feature Writing Incorporating Profile Writing

• Byliner for “The Living and the Dead,” by Brian Mockenhaupt; October
• GQ for “The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador,” by Karen Russell; October
• GQ for “Burning Man,” by Jay Kirk; February
• Mother Jones for “Shelf Lives,” by Mac McClelland; March/April
• The New Yorker for “Atonement,” by Dexter Filkins; October 29 & November 5
• Texas Monthly for “The Innocent Man: Part I,” November, and “The Innocent Man: Part II,” December, by Pamela Colloff
• Wired for “Inside the Mansion–and the Mind–of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Internet,” by Charles Graeber; November

Essays and Criticism

• The Atlantic for “Fear of a Black President,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates; September
• Foreign Policy for “Why Do They Hate Us?” by Mona Eltahawy; May/June
• New York for “A Life Worth Ending,” by Michael Wolff; May 28
• The New Yorker for “Over the Wall,” by Roger Angell; November 19
• Orion for “State of the Species,” by Charles C. Mann; November/December

Columns and Commentary

• Elle for three columns by Daphne Merkin: “Portrait of a Lady,” March; “Social Animal,” May; and “We’re All Helmut Newton Now,” October
• The Nation for three columns by Katha Pollitt: “Protect Pregnant Women: Free Bei Bei Shuai,” March 26; “Ann Romney, Working Woman?” May 7; and “Blasphemy Is Good for You,” October 15
• New York for three columns by Frank Rich: “Who in God’s Name Is Mitt Romney?” February 6; “Mayberry R.I.P.,” July 30; and “Nora’s Secret,” August 27-September 3
• The New York Times Magazine for three columns by Adam Davidson: “It Ain’t Just Pickles,” February 19; “The $200,000-Nanny Club,” March 25; and “Caymans, Here We Come,” July 29
• Slate for three columns by Dahlia Lithwick: “It’s Not About the Law, Stupid,” March 22; “The Supreme Court’s Dark Vision of Freedom,” March 27; and “Where Is the Liberal Outrage?” July 6

Fiction

• Byliner for “The Boy Vanishes,” by Jennifer Haigh; July
• Harper’s Magazine for “Batman and Robin Have an Altercation,” by Stephen King; September
• Harper’s Magazine for “Train,” by Alice Munro; April
• McSweeney’s Quarterly for “River Camp,” by Thomas McGuane; September
• The Paris Review for “Housebreaking,” by Sarah Frisch; December

 

Congratulation to the class of 2013. Good luck to all of you.

From the press release email I received:

Photo District News (PDN) has just announced their list of the top 30 emerging photographers for 2013. Selected from more than 300 photographers nominated from around the world, this year’s list represents 12 nationalities and virtually every genre of photography.  To qualify for the award, photographers must be shooting professionally for five years or less.

I like how they define “emerging photographer” as someone who has been shooting professional for five years or less. Everyone has a different definition and of course we can debate “shooting professionally” but this one I like.

PDN’s gallery of the winners:

http://pdn30.pdnevents.com/gallery/2013/

My links to their sites:

Ian Allen
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Olivia Bee
Bharat Choudhary
Ty Cole
Delphine Diaw Diallo
Bon Duke
Jessica Eaton
Lisa Elmaleh
Michael Friberg
Adam Golfer
Meg Griffiths
Nicholas Haggard
Michael Hanson
Tobias Hutzler
Alessandro Imbriaco
Rush Jagoe
James Michelfelder& Therese Sommerseth
Muge
Katie Orlinsky
John Francis Peters
Tatiana Plotnikova
Andrew Querner
Jessica Sample
Sim Chi Yin
Toby Smith
Jonathan Snyder
Nicole Tung
NadyaWasylko
Geordie Wood

American Photography is still the most prestigious annual award for photographers, so it’s nice to see an improved website to show off this years winners.

Check it out: http://www.ai-ap.com/slideshow/

The Society of Publication Designers announces the finalists for their 47th annual awards. Download the full list (here).

With our British co-chairs and the overseas success of the SPD iPad App, we received more entries from foreign talent, and once again tripled the amount of digital entries. We will be back at Cipriani Wall Street on Friday, May 11th to honor the Gold and Silver Medals from the following list of Medal Finalists.

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

PHOTO: COVER
Bloomberg Businessweek, Richard Turley, Creative Director, David Carthas, Director of Photography, Corriette Schoenaerts, Photographer; August 15 – 28, 2011, “The Popularity Issue”
Bloomberg Businessweek, Richard Turley, Creative Director, David Carthas, Director of Photography, Guido Vitti, Photographer; February 14 – 20, 2011, “The Infidelity Economy”
New York, Randy Minor, Art Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Photographer; October 24, 2011, “The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Sebastião Salgado, Photographer; June 12, 2011, “Voyages In America”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Tom Sandberg, Photographer; May 8, 2011, “What Happened to Air France Flight 447?”

PHOTO: ENTIRE ISSUE
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, August 22, 2011, “Fall Fashion”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, December 19, 2011, “Reasons to Love New York”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography; December 26, 2011, “The Protester”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography; September 19, 2011, “Beyond 9/11”
W, Alex Gonzalez, Creative Director, Caroline Wolff, Sr. Photo Editor; September 2011, “The Fashion Issue”

PHOTO: SECTION (from a single issue)
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jennifer Miller, Director of Photography, Elinor Caruuci, Photographer; March 7, 2011, “Will Swenson”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Peter Bohler, Photographer; August 2011, “Come On, Feel The Mud”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Julian Faulhaber, Photographer; May 15, 2011, “Bloom and Bust”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Edward Burtynstky, Photographer; April 10, 2011, “Up On The Farm”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Yuri Kozyrev-Noor for TIME, Photographer; March 28, 2011, “Ras Lanuf, Libya”

PHOTO: SECTION (multiple issues)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography; July, May, August 2011, “GQ Intelligence”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography; October, November, December 2011, “The Strategist”
Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography; March, April, June 2011, “The Decoder”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography; March, April 2011, “Lightbox”

PHOTO: FEATURE, SERVICE (single/spread)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Micahel Crichton, Photographer; October 2011, “New Rules of Wine”
Men’s Health, Robert Festino, Design Director, Brenda Milis, Director of Photography, Kenji Toma, Photographer; September 2011, “Feed Your Fat Burner”
Psychology Today, Edward Levine, Creative Director, Claudia Stefezius, Director of Photography, Stephen Lewis, Photographer; January/February 2011, “Taste”
Psychology Today, Edward Levine, Creative Director, Claudia Stefezius, Director of Photography, Kenji Toma, Photographer; January/February 2011, “Breakups”
Women’s Health, Theresa Griggs, Creative Director, Sarah Rozen, Director of Photography, Munetaka Tokuyama, Photographer; October 2011, “Bike Your Butt Off”

PHOTO: FEATURE, SERVICE (story)
Bon Appétit, Alexander Grossman, Creative Director, Alexandra Pollack, Director of Photography, Stephen Lewis, Photographer; September 2011, “S +P”
Men’s Health, Robert Festino, Design Director, Brenda Milis, Director of Photography, Kenji Toma, Photographer; September 2011, “Feed Your Fat Burner”
Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography, Christopher Griffith, Photographer; January 2011, “Happier New Year”
Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography, Melanie Acevedo, Photographer; Family 2011, “Birthday Bashes on a Budget”
Real Simple, Janet Froelich, Creative Director, Casey Tierney, Director of Photography, Martyn Thompson, Photographer; July 2011, “Elegant, Exquisite, Easy”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, NON-CELEBRITY (single/spread)
Garden & Gun, Marshall McKinney, Art Director, Maggie Brett Kennedy, Director of Photography, Erika Larsen, Photographer; October/November 2011, “A Taste For The Hunt”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Ben Hassett, Photographer; July 18, 2011, “Jennifer Rubell”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Catherine Opie, Photographer; December 4, 2011, “62 and Life To Go”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Elinor Caruuci, Photographer; October 16, 2011, “My Dearest Damien”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Peter Hapak for TIME, Photographer; December 26, 2011, “Time 2011 Person of the Year: The Protestor”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, NON-CELEBRITY (story)
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Damon Winter, Photographer; September 4, 2011, “From Zero to 104”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Brigitte Lacombe, Photographer; November 6, 2011, “Marty’s Magical ‘Hugo”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Sebastião Salgado Photographer; June 12, 2011, “On Earth As It Is In Heaven”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Marco Grob for TIME, Photographer; September 19, 2011, “Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Peter Hapak for TIME, Photographer; December 26, 2011, “Time 2011 Person of the Year: The Protestor”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT (single/spread)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; May 2011, “Zach Galifianakis”
The New Yorker, Caroline Maihot, Art Director, Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography, Ruven Afanador, Photographer; July 25, 2011, “Swan Song”
The New Yorker, Caroline Maihot, Art Director, Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; August 15 & 22, 2011, “Shakespeare on Park”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Peter Hapak for TIME, Photographer; December 19, 2011, “Tilda Swinton”
W, Alex Gonzalez, Creative Director, Caroline Wolff, Sr. Photo Editor, Daniele Duella, Iango Henzi, Photographers; July 2011, “Christina Aguilera”

PHOTO: FEATURE, PROFILE, CELEBRITY/ENTERTAINMENT (story)
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Mark Seliger, Photographer; November 2011, “Survivors”
GQ, Fred Woodward, Design Director, Dora Somosi, Director of Photography, Martin Schoeller, Photographer; May 2011, “Zach Galifianakis”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Alex Prager, Photographer; December 11, 2011, “Touch of Evil”
OUT, Nick Vogelson, Creative Director, Annie Chia, Director of Photography, Gavin Bond, Photographer; December 2011/January 2012, “ The 2011 OUT 100”
W, Alex Gonzalez, Creative Director, Caroline Wolff, Sr. Photo Editor, Tim Walker, Photographer; August 2011, “Tilda Swinton”

PHOTO: FEATURE, NEWS/REPORTAGE (single/spread)
New York, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Christopher Anderson, Photographer; December 5, 2011, “Occupy Wall Street”
New York, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Matthew Pillsbury, Photographer; December 19, 2011, “Zuccotti Park”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Yuri Kozyrev-Noor for TIME, Photographer; February 14, 2011, “The Revolution”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, James Nachtwey for TIME, Photographer; May 9, 2011, “The Poppy Poison”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Dan Winters for TIME, Photographer; July 25, 2011, “One Last Liftoff”

PHOTO: FEATURE, NEWS/REPORTAGE (story)
National Geographic, David C. Whitmore, Design Director, Kurt Mutchler, Director of Photography, Abelardo Morrell, Photographer; May 2011, “Rooms With A View”
National Geographic, David C. Whitmore, Design Director, Kurt Mutchler, Director of Photography, Michael Melford, Photographer; November 2011, “Boundless”
National Geographic, David C. Whitmore, Design Director, Kurt Mutchler, Director of Photography, David Guttenfelder, Photographer; December 2011, “Nuclear Refugees”
TIME, D.W. Pine, Design Director, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography, Patrick Witty for TIME, Photographer; January 17, 2011, “The Birds Of Hope: With A Black Hawk Medevac Unit In Afghanistan”
The New Yorker, Caroline Maihot, Art Director, Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography, Christopher Anderson, Photographer; September 12, 2011, “Ten Years Later”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRAVEL/FOOD/STILL LIFE (single/spread)
New York, Jody Quon, Director of Photography, Matthew Pillsbury, Photographer; December 19, 2011, “High Line”
The New Yorker, Caroline Maihot, Art Director, Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography, Dominic Nahr, Photographer; July 11 & 18, 2011, “Letter From Rwanda: Climbers”
Samvirke, Christel Frydkjær, Creative Director, Peter Lam, Photographer; July 2011, “ Sushi ABC”
WIRED, Brandon Kavulla, Creative Director, Zana Woods, Director of Photography; June 2011, “Liquid Gold”
WIRED Italia, David Moretti, Art Director, Francesca Morosini, Photo Editor, Reinhard Hunger, Photographer; February 2011, “The Future of Food: Insettivori”

PHOTO: FEATURE, TRAVEL/FOOD/STILL LIFE (story)
Condé Nast Traveler, Rob Hewitt, Design Director, Kathleen Klech, Photography Director, Dan Winters, Photographer; May 2011, “The Big Bird Is Back”
Eureka, Matt Curtis, Art Director, Madeleine Penny, Photo Editor, Giles Revell, Photographer; May 2011, “ The Flower Show”
The Grid, Vanessa Wyse, Creative Director, Shelbie Vermette, Photo Editor, Michael Crichton, Photographer; May 12, 2011, “Pantry Items”
The New York Times Magazine, Arem Duplessis, Design Director, Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, Kenji Aoki, Photographer; April 17, 2011, “Sweet and Vicious”
Women’s Health, Theresa Griggs, Design Director, Sarah Rosen, Director of Photography, Mitchell Feinberg, Photographer; April 2011, “Get Hooked”

PHOTO: FEATURE, FASHION/BEAUTY (story)
Earnshaw’s, Nancy Campbell, Creative Director, Amanda Pratt, Photographer; September 2011, “Gnome Is Where the Heart Is”
New York, Chris Dixon, Design Director, Jody Quon, Jennifer Miller, Directors of Photography, James Mollison, Photographer; July 18, 2011, “Fall Fashion Portfolio”
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, David Sebbah, Creative Director, Judith Puckett-Rinella, Senior Photography Editor, Richard Burbridge, Photographer; April 17, 2011, “A Diamond in the Roughage”
W, Alex Gonzalez, Creative Director, Caroline Wolff, Sr. Photo Editor, Steven Meisel, Photographer; September 2011, “Transformations”
W, Alex Gonzalez, Creative Director, Caroline Wolff, Sr. Photo Editor, Steven Klein, Photographer; September 2011, “Decades”

The Critical Mass 2011 top 50 is out and as always it’s an outstanding resource for anyone looking for photographers to hire. Take a look and congratulations to those who made the cut. Go here to see the list with pictures.

Jane Fulton Alt
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Jessica Auer
Mary Ellen Bartley
Daniel Beltra
Nadine Boughton
Colette Campbell-Jones
Christopher Capozziello/AEVUM
Kirk Crippens
John Cyr
Katrina d’Autremont
Scott Dalton
Christopher Dawson
Nigel Gordon Dickinson
Mitch Dobrowner
Carolyn Drake
Jeremy Dyer
Mark Fernandes
Michelle Frankfurter
Misha Friedman
Lucia Ganieva
Meggan Gould
Gabriela Herman
Sarah Hobbs
Jeroen Hofman
Jennifer Hudson
Yaakov Israel
Heidi Kirkpatrick
Alejandra Laviada
Fritz Liedtke
Sebastian Liste
Gloriann Liu
Larry Louie
Mark Lyon
Michael Marten
Rizwan Mirza
Viviane Moos
Kenneth O Halloran
Susana Raab
Jesse Rieser
Alejandro Rivas
Kent Rogowski
Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Geoffrey H. Short
Youngsuk Suh
Daro Sulakauri
Stephen Vaughan
Toshiya Watanabe
David Welch
Sarah Wilson
Susan Worsham

The Lucie Awards were held last night. Always an exciting event because the honorees, presenters and nominees are the luminaries of the photography industry and the winners get to walk up on stage and accept a statue. Here are the winners:

International Photographer of the Year went to Majid Saeedi
Discovery of the Year Award went to Anna di Prospero
International Photographer of the Year – Deeper Perspective Award went to Daniel Beltrá
Picture Editor of the year went to Kira Pollack, Time Magazine
Photography Magazine of the Year went to ZOOM
Fashion Layout of the Year went to W Magazine for Tilda Swinton, photographed by Tim Walker
Book Publisher of the Year went to Chris Boot, Ltd for Infidel by Tim Hetherington
Photography Curator/Exhibition of the Year – Kohle Yohannan for Beauty Culture at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles

The 2011 honorees were:
Dawoud Bey for Achievement in Portraiture
Bill Eppridge for Achievement in Photojournalism
Rich Clarkson for Achievement in Sports
Nobuyoshi Araki for Achievement in Fine Art
Nancy McGirr and Fotokids for Humanitarian Award
Eli Reed for Achievement in Documentary Photography Award
The International Center of Photography received The 2011 Spotlight Award

Congratulations to everyone.

The 2011 PDN Photo Annual went live on their website this week (here). Tons of fantastic photography. Congratulations to all the winners.

More, here.

This Friday is the big SPD (Society of Publication Designers) Gala where the winner for Magazine of the Year will be announced. Additionally there’s a whole slew of awards for photography: Cover, Entire Issue, Section (single and multiple issues), Feature and Service, Profiles, News/Reportage, Travel/Food/Still Life, Fashion Beauty and Trade/Corporate.

Download the list of nominees (here).

The American Society of Magazines Editors announced the finalists for their Print Award categories yesterday (Digital awards were given last month). Here are the nominees for photography and Design:

DESIGN, PRINT
Honors overall excellence in magazine design, including the use of illustration and photography

Esquire
For May, October, November Issues

Fortune
For March 22, May 3, November 1 Issues

GQ
For June, August, December Issues

New York
For February 22-March 1, April 19, May 17 Issues

Wired
For June, July, August Issues

PHOTOGRAPHY, PRINT
Honors overall excellence in magazine photography

GQ
For August, November, December Issues

Martha Stewart Living
For August, October, November Issues

National Geographic
For February, April, December Issues

The New York Times Magazine
For February 7, March 21, December 12 Issue

W
For September, October, November Issues

NEWS AND DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Honors photojournalism and photography that documents news, sports and entertainment events and news-related subjects

National Geographic
For “Veiled Rebellion,” by Elizabeth Rubin; photographs by Lynsey Addario
December

The New York Times Magazine
For “The Shrine Down the Hall,” photographs by Ashley Gilbertson; essay by Dexter Filkins
March 21

The New York Times Magazine
For “Dumping Across the Digital Divide,” photographs by Pieter Hugo
August 15

TIME
For “The Perils of Pregnancy: One Woman’s Tale of Dying to Give Birth,” by Alice Park; photographs by Lynsey Addario
June 14

Virginia Quarterly Review
For “The Cocaine Coast,” essay and photographs by Marco Vernaschi
Winter

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Honors portraiture; fashion, travel and nature photography; and food, shelter and other still-life photography conceptual photography; and photo-illustration

AARP The Magazine
For “The Me I Used to Be,” by Frank Yuvancic; photographs by Gregg Segal
November-December

ESPN The Magazine
For “Bodies We Want,” reporting by Morty Ain
October 18

National Geographic
For “One Cubic Foot,” by Edward O. Wilson; photographs by David Littschwager
February

The New York Times Magazine
For “Fifteen Actors Acting,” photographs by Solve Sundsbo; introduction by A.O. Scott
December 12

W
For “The East Enders,” by Ted Polhemus; portfolio by Tim Walker
September

Congratulations to the creatives and photographers involved in each (Lynsey Addario twice!). It’s always an honor to be nominated. See the full list (here).

2011 Award Recipients

• Nicholas Mendise (New York, NY)
• Devin Tepleski (Victoria, Canada)
• Christoph Engel (Karlsruhe, Germany)
• Jonathan Smith (Brooklyn, NY)
• Gareth Kingdon (Cardiff, Wales, UK)
• Victor Yuliev (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
• Rena Effendi (Baku, Azerbaijan)
• Thomas Stanworth (Deeside, Wales, UK)

2011 Honorable Mentions

• Christopher Vongsawat (Brooklyn, NY)
• Ivo Rafailov (Burgas, Bulgaria)
• Ryan Obermeyer (Austin, TX)
• Brandon Schulman (Brooklyn, NY)
• Jenny Johannesson (Pacifica, CA)
• Julie Soefer (Houston, TX)
• Alix Smith (New York, NY)
• Ariel Bernades (Minneapolis, MN)
• Nils Orth (Brooklyn, NY)
• David Wright (Syracuse, NY)

Hearst Corporation today announced the winners of the second Hearst 8 X 10 Photography Biennial, an international competition that recognizes the work of talented young photographers—eight rising artists whose vision will shape the future of the creative media landscape, selected by 10 of the world’s foremost photographers, gallery owners and magazine professionals. The 2011 Hearst 8 X 10 Photography Biennial garnered more than 4,600 entries from across the U.S. as well as 70 other countries, five times the number of entries garnered in the 2009 inaugural competition.

[Note: copied straight from the press release]

Critical Mass 2010 announced their top 50 (here). Always a good place to find great photography.

And, the Lucies were held last night in NYC. The winners were:

International Photographer of the Year Award went to Jim Krantz.

Discovery of the Year Award went to Kristina Kostadinova.

International Photographer of the Year – Deeper Perspective Award went to Rodney Rascona.

The IPA also conferred awards in six support categories:
Picture Editor of the Year – Jody Quon, W Magazine.

Photo Magazine of the Year – Aperture.
Fashion Layout of the Year – Harper’s Bazaar Fashion and All That Jazz by Peter Lindbergh.
Book Publisher of the Year – 21st Editions for Listen by Herman Leonard.
Print Advertising Campaign of the Year – Agency- Ogilvy & Mather Paris for Unicef Entitled Class Photo Photographed by Vincent Dixon.
Photography Curator of the Year – Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the 60’s Curated by Brett Abbott at The J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The 2010 honorees were:
David Goldblatt (Lifetime Achievement)
Graciela Iturbide (Achievement in Fine Art)
Lee Tanner (Achievement in Documentary)
Howard Bingham (Achievement in Photojournalism)>James Drake (Achievement in Sports)
Tina Barney (Achievement in Portraiture)
Michael Nyman (Double Exposure Award)
Ariel Shanberg, The Woodstock Center for Photography (Spotlight Award)
Alyssa Adams for the Eddie Adams Photographic Workshop,  (Visionary Award)

PDN has their photo annual live on the website now (here). Lots of great work and some crossover from the American Photography Book which is always good to see.

Congratulations to all the winners. Amazing work from last year.

American Photography has released a slideshow of this year’s winners via their facebook page. Many photo editors will be browsing through the images and googling the names they don’t recognize (why no links AP?) to find someone new to add to their list. Also, for the names they recognize it serves as a subtle reminder to give them a job soon.

If you want to test your photo editor skills see how many photographers you can name based on looking at the thumbs only. The Schoeller’s and Greenberg’s are easy to spot and also anything memorable from last year’s editorial calendar like the Kander’s, Platon’s, Pellegrin’s, Rubin’s and Ommanney’s.

Congratulations to all the photographers selected for the book and the website.

Winning publications with the words “New York” in the title: New York (4 awards), The New Yorker (3 awards), The New York Times Magazine (1 award): 8 — via The Fix

PHOTOGRAPHY / PRINT
Honors the effectiveness of photography, photojournalism and photo-illustration in support of the editorial mission of the magazine

Winner: Vanity Fair: Graydon Carter, Editor for March, September, November Issues

Finalists:

* GQ
* National Geographic
* The New York Times Style Magazine
* Vogue

PHOTOJOURNALISM
Recognizes the informative photographic documentation of an event or subject

Winner: National Geographic: Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief for “Shattered Somalia,” photographs by Pascal Maitre; text by Robert Draper, May

Finalists:

* Foreign Policy
* National Geographic
* New York
* Virginia Quarterly Review
* Time

PHOTO PORTFOLIO
Honors creative photography and photo illustration, including portraiture

Winner: The New Yorker: David Remnick, Editor for “Portraits of Power,” photographs by Platon, December 7

Finalists:

* National Geographic
* New York
* Out
* W

The rest of the winners can be found (here).