©Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Sony World Photography Awards - Bruce Davidson, one of America’s most distinguished photographers, it to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards, Odeon Leicester Square, 27 April 2011. An exhibition of his work will be shown at The World Photography Festival, Somerset House, 26 April – 22 May. A retrospective of his work will also be exhibited at Chris Beetles Fine Art Photographs, London, to coincide with the show at Somerset House, 4-28 May 2011.

The World Photography Organisation has announced today that Bruce Davidson, the renowned American photographer is to be awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards, Odeon Leicester Square, 27 April 2011.

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Tuesday 8 March 2011

Bruce Davidson to receive Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award

Bruce Davidson is to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at this year‟s Sony World Photography Awards. He will be honoured at the annual gala award ceremony at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on Wednesday 27 April amongst leading figures of the international photography community. An exhibition of his work will be shown as part of the World Photography Festival at Somerset House in London.

Scott Gray, Managing Director of the World Photography Organisation comments: “We are proud to honour Bruce Davidson at the forthcoming Sony World Photography Awards for his truly outstanding contribution to photography. As a founding member of our World Photographic Academy, Bruce has been part of our family since we first launched the awards. We are thrilled to be awarding a friend and true master of photography.”

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The announcement of the winning photos in February is the big moment on our annual calendar. This morning, the international jury of the 54th World Press Photo Contest named a photo by South African photographer Jodi Bieber as the World Press Photo of the Year 2010. The image is a portrait of Bibi Aisha, disfigured as punishment for fleeing her husband’s house, taken in Kabul, Afghanistan. The image was also awarded First prize in the category Portraits Singles in this year’s contest.

Jodi Bieber received a phone call from us with the news that she won the premier award. Listen to a recording of her reaction here.

Online gallery of winners
Over 5,691 photographers entered the 2011 World Press Photo Contest and 56 were named winners in nine categories. The full list of winners and a gallery of winning images can be viewed on our website.

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Stepan Rudik, whose series on street fighting was disqualified from the World Press Photo last week, has answered, in an exclusive interview with BJP, to critics who called his retouching extreme.

Read the interview at: BJP.

Dear friend of World Press Photo,

Our most important news is that the time has come to upload your images for the 2010 contest. This newsletter also explains how you can enjoy and learn from the 2009 Joop Swart Masterclass, which was held in Amsterdam in November.

Submit your photos on our web entry site now
If you want to compete in next year’s competition, please go to our special web entry site for the 2010 World Press Photo contest to request a password. When we have checked your application, we will send you the password so that you can upload your images. All material is automatically coded and can be saved and edited before submission. The deadline for submissions is 14 January, and passwords must be requested no later than 8 January. The entry site is the only way to send us your photos. It offers a choice of four languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

https://submit.worldpressphoto.nl

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Coming soon: the 2010 World Press Photo competition

When and how to enter
Please be aware that from this year only entries uploaded online will be accepted. The special website where you can submit your entries for the 2010 competition is open from 1 December 2009. [Deadline: 14 January 2010]

On your marks…

We advise you to start preparing for the contest before December comes around. Have a careful read of the entry rules to ensure the competition is open to you and the material you’d like to enter. Questions about technical specifications and the regulations governing award-winning images are also answered in the entry rules.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1583&Itemid=235&bandwidth=high

2010 jury chair announced
We are pleased to announce that Ayperi Karabuda Ecer will chair next year’s World Press Photo contest. A true professional with profound experience of the photographic industry, she is currently vice-president at Reuters. Since Ecer was a member of this year’s jury, she already knows the procedure. Participants in the 2010 edition, she says, should try to make their best edit ever. She also has this advice: “Trust your instincts. Don’t try to second guess the jury. Every constellation of jurors will give different results, and there is no way you can predict their reactions.” The names of the other jurors on next year’s panel will be announced at the end of October.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1618&Itemid=158&bandwidth=low

Exhibition update
While we are hard at work to ensure that everything will be in order for the 2010 contest, this year’s edition of our exhibition continues to tour the world. At this point in time it is on show in Prague, A Coruña, La Paz, Budapest, Zwolle (the Netherlands), Oita (Japan) and other cities. In the next few weeks there will be openings in Maputo, Copenhagen, Toronto, Tauranga (New Zealand), Shiga (Japan), Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) and Vienna.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/exhibitions

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October 1 is the date we kick off our new online archive, a major educational resource for the global photographic community in the widest sense and for everyone else who is interested in photojournalism. Our aim is to provide a showcase that will promote top photography and its authors. Covering over 50 years of award-winning images, the archive features around 10,000 photographs, each of which has been carefully scanned and labeled. We are proud to share our knowledge, resources and experience in this way.

Our new archive has been designed to be as intuitive and user-friendly as possible. Going all the way back to 1955, it includes every year’s prize-winners in chronological order. It’s up to the users to decide whether they’d like to see an overview of the awarded material of a particular year, or a breakdown by the category in which it was registered. In addition, images may be accessed through an alphabetical listing of the photographers’ names, or through further search options arranged by the authors’ nationality, specific awards, and so on. There are 11 themed categories in all. Just go to the archive, and you will be shown the way.

The Mondriaan Foundation and the VSB Foundation have provided the financial means that made this project possible. To maximize its potential, however, we need more help. There are still gaps to be filled. In isolated cases, even the photographer’s name has not been recorded. We therefore appeal to you, as members of our community, to help improve this valuable new resource by sending us any additional information or images you may have.