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The 4th issue of Vision magazine (China) featured 'Kenozero dreams' series by Oksana Yushko : http://www.youthvision.cn/

In the summer of 2011, this project will unite in Donetsk eight international photographers, selected after an open-call application, for a month long residency. Under the curatorial guidance of Boris Mikhailov, the photographers are invited to embark on a creative journey, where they are to retrace and reexamine the city’s aesthetic field, giving it their own qualification.

Artists selected for the program are invited to live in Donetsk, Ukraine, for any 4 weeks from 4 July to 15 August, 2011. During the residency, artists will have an opportunity to attend a masterclass and have their portfolios reviewed by Boris Mikhailov. In return, each artist-in-residence will have to hold a one-day masterclass for local photographers.

All artists working in photography and related media are eligible to apply. Applications will be accepted until April 15, 2011. Artists-in-residence will be chosen by April 25, 2011.
http://www.izolyatsia.org

Participation in the PHE OjodePez Award is open to photographers from all over the world who carry out a work of documentary photography in which human values such as solidarity, ethics, dedication, or justice stand out.

The winner will be awarded with a 3.000 ? prize, the winning work could be the object of an exhibition and will be published along with the finalists in a special issue that OjodePez devotes each fall to the award. Participating photographers can register on www.ojodepez.org/premio and submit their portfolios before May 1, 2011.

The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith's concerned photography and dedicated compassion exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist.

For 2011, the amount of the grant will be $30,000. An additional $5,000 in fellowship money will be dispersed, at the discretion of the jury, to one or more finalists deemed worthy of special recognition. Grants will be presented in a ceremony held in New York City in October.

Deadline May 31, 2011
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Bill Reeves Exhibition “A Mirror will Suffice" can be seen during only one day (Saturday, March 26) at Bowers Gallery, Austin, TX. All proceeds from photograph sales benefit Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206922282653180&index=1">http://www.facebook.com/event/a>

Viktor Yuliev's solo exhibition 'Sleepers' can be seen from March 24 till April 20 at Loft Project Etagi, St Petersburg: poster

Karen Mirzoyan's portfolio from 'Unrecognized Islands of the Caucasus' published in the new issue of OjodePez #24 http://www.ojodepez.org/

Maria Morina, Oksana Yushkoo and Olga Kravets are participating in the powerHouse Arena's exhibition 'Provocation'. The exhibit will run from March 27 - April 17 in New York http://provocation.newyorkphotofestival.com/

Petr Antonov taught a workshop about editorial photography and personal projects at PhotoCult location, Moskow http://www.reznikdavydov.com/

The renowned photographic competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award will be announced for the 32nd time in the year 2011. Entries (professional photographers only) for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2011 will be accepted as online submissions between 15 January and 1 March 2011. Entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack NEWCOMER Award are open to all (prospective) photographers who are aged 25 years and under.

An international jury awards the Leica Oskar Barnack Award / Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award to photographers whose unerring powers of observation capture and express the relationship between man and the environment in the most graphic form in a sequence of a minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 12 images. Entry submissions must be a self-contained series of images in which the photographer perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary visual style – creative... (continued)

Dmitry Markov's exhibition 'Bator' can be seen from January 22 till February 18 at 'FOTODOC' Center of Documentary Photography, Moscow: http://fotodoc.liberty.su/

Kirk Ellingham's work published in the next issue of PRIVATE magazine: http://www.privatephotoreview.com/ The full project is here: http://kellingham.viewbook.com/

Ekaterina Vasilieva's exhibition 'Prague. Two colors' can be seen from December 20 till January 20 at Rabfak gallery, St-Petersburg, Stachek square, 5.

Maria Ionova-Gribina is participating in the 'Zones of Estrangement' show. These group show curated by Marina Fomenko, the exhibition features the works of eight artists who explore ideas of alienation and estrangement within modern society. The show will continue through January 6th atLexington, Kentucky, USA http://stateofish.com

The web entry site of the 2011 World Press Photo Contest is open for online contest submissions. The World Press Photo contest is only open to professional photographers and photojournalists. Single images in all categories must have been taken in 2010. Stories/portfolios entered in the categories Spot News, General News, People in the News and Sports Action must have been taken in 2010. Stories/portfolios entered in the remaining categories must have been completed or first published in 2010.

Stories/portfolios must contain no less than 2 and no more than 12 images. Stories/portfolios of more than 12 images will not be accepted.
The closing date for the 2011 contest is 13 January 2010, 23.59 Central European Time. All entries must have been submitted at http://submit.worldpressphoto.nl by this date.

Alexander Sedelnikov, Irina Yulieva and Yana Romanowa are participating in the 'Yound photography 2010 2/2. Time' show of the Fotodepartament information center / gallery in St.Petersburg from December 10 till January 10: www.fotodepartament.ru

The Persephone Miel Fellowship for Crisis Reporting is intended to give non-native English speaking media professionals the opportunity to reach audiences beyond their home countries on critical under-reported issues. The fellowship, overseen by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with Internews, is designed to help media professionals outside of the United States do the kind of reporting they've always wanted to do, and enable them to bring their work to a broader international audience.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will provide a travel grant of $7500 for a reporting project on topics and regions of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported or under-reported in the mainstream American media. The Persephone Miel fellowships are open to all journalists, writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers; staff journalists as well as free-lancers who are non-native Eng... (continued)

Dmitry Markov's essay on "Fedkovo project" featured in Esquire-Russia magazine: esquire.ru

Mikhail Protasevich taught a lecture about social landscape and it's characteristics and traits at Fotodepartament Gallery in St.Petersburg, 5th of December
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The Open Society Documentary Photography Project and Arts and Culture Network Program announce a grant and training opportunity for documentary photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan.

The grant is being offered to:
- visually document issues of importance in the region; and
- provide training and support to photographers from the region.

Approximately 10 cash stipends in the amount of $3,500 each will be awarded to photographers to produce a photo essay on a current human rights or social issue in the region. Grantees will participate in two master-level workshops on visual storytelling through photography and multimedia. These workshops are led by internationally-recognized p... (continued)

Eric Stephanian's exhibition 'Trans Caucasus' about the underground life of transsexuals in trans Caucasus region can be seen during only one night (Saturday 4th december 2010 at 7pm) at Boulogne-Billancourt, 50 rue du chemin vert, Paris, France blog.ericstephanian.com

Alexey Vanushkin's 'Merry-Go-Round' book on the Novosibirsk youth published via Blurb www.blurb.com

[OR]EDU, an innovative online educational initiative originated in Russia and launched by Objective Reality Foundation in 2008, is now offering its workshops internationally. In the fall of 2010 [OR]EDU opened its free online workshops in photography and multimedia to applicants worldwide.

[OR]EDU project aims at supporting contemporary narratives, and engaging both professional authors and the audience in navigating the wide range of social issues through visual storytelling.

[OR]EDU online workshops are designed to help navigate photographers and visual professionals through the rapidly changing media and art markets and focus on the need to develop and maintain a personal vision. Distinctive features of the project is its mobile, flexible format and extended timing that allows participants to produce strong personal work guided by the professional exc... (continued)

The first printed issue of Burn magazine featured 'Awkward Age'essay by Dmirtry Markov
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Petr Antonov's solo exhibition 'Khruschevkas. 1969s mass housing project' according to its program for young photographers can be seen from October 16 till November 19 at FotoDepartament Gallery www.fotodepartament.ru

Artists Wanted and Photo District News (PDN) have collaborated to present One Life, an international photography competition with some astounding prizes. Voting for the People's Choice Award is underway so enter your images now and receive a gorgeous online portfolio to share . Get enough ratings and you could win the People's Choice Award and a $2,000 cash grant.

The people at Artists Wanted and PDN are also presenting the One Life Photography Project. The first of an annual series, the One Life Photography Project will publish photos from all participating photographers as a public online gallery (launching New Year's Day 2011) and also in the form of a hardbound archival book submitted to the Library of Congress.

The Grand Prize Award is your choice between $25,000 - or - A Dream Trip Around the World!
Submissions accepted now through Friday October 29th 11:59 EST
Details: www.onelifephotos.com

Welcome to the [OR]EDU 2.0 upgraded version! As promised we have completed a series of updates to improve our educational platform for visual storytelling.

Let us walk you through some of the main changes.

First of all, note our new application process - we have switched to a continuous schedule which allows you to join the project at any stage and not wait until the next available workshops session.

We have rearranged the main menu, consolidating all the completed and ongoing workshops, educational resources, to be joined by educational videos and tutorials soon - under ONLINE EDUCATION section.
All [OR] users, including masters, workshops participants and applicants are now brought together in [OR]COMMUNITY.

In TALKS&FEEDS we are bringing you the website news, achievements of our past workshops participants and community... (continued)

Before we announce the masters line-up for the forthcoming workshops, we wanted to tell you about some major changes in application process and workshops schedule.

In the fall of 2010 [OR]EDU will open its workshops to applicants worldwide which means that from now our workshops are not limited to participants from Russia and the CIS.
We encourage applications from working professionals with broad backgrounds and specializations in photography and multimedia (including documentary and art photographers, photo editors, multimedia producers and journalists) as well as from students seriously studying visual storytelling from all over the world. Most importantly, we are looking for storytellers with exciting project ideas and narratives to tell!

Please, note that all [OR]EDU workshops are free!
Application process requires you to:
_Register on the website and upload your profile - you have to do it only once an... (continued)

The fund of information and cultural programs "Photodepartment" announses the open reception of personal projects of emerging photographers for participation in an exhibition of the second season of 2010 of «Young Russian Photography» - the project of supporting young Russian photographers.
The exhibition of the second season of the project «Young Russian Photography» 2010 2/2 will take place December, 3rd 2010 - January, 10th, 2011 in the Big exhibit hall of the Center of art and music of Majakovsky Library / Nevsky Pr., 20.
Official site of the project - http://www.youngphotography.ru/.
Supply of application forms for participation in exhibitions and selection of projects by curators is carried out online.
Details: http://www.fotodepartament.ru/cat/1329/ruYOUNG RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHY 2010 2/2

Oksana Yushko with her 'Kenozero Dreams' project was named one of the three finalists of Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010
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