Index World Press Photo
October 2006 | Edition Five     


Date/deadline: 11 January 2007
World Press Photo contest 2007, international.
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For professional photojournalists. From 1 October 2006 detailed information on how to enter next year’s World Press Photo contest will be available on our corporate website.
Date/deadline: 15th November 2006
Luis Valtuena International Humanitarian Photography Award
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The competition is open to adult, amateur and professional photographers of any nationality. The topic of the images must be related to humanitarian action, international co-operation and social exclusion - human rights violation, armed conflicts, natural disasters, refugee and immigrant populations, socially excluded groups.

And, say the organizers, "to the solidarity efforts aimed to build a fair and egalitarian world".
Date/deadline: 16 October 2006 to 24 November 2006
Photographer's Forum Annual Photography Contest
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Cash grants and cameras can be won in this competition.Winning photos will be published in the May 2007 issue of Photographer’s Forum Magazine. All contest finalists will be published in The Best of College Photography Annual 2007.
Date/deadline: March 2007
Mohamed Amin Photographic Award
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Donated by his family through his company, Camerapix, the photographic award is part of the CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards. Mohamed - or Mo - was a co-founder of the African Journalist Awards (AJA) in 1995 and Camerpix continued with it after his death. The award may be given to either an individual photograph or a photographic essay, containing a maximum of five photographs. Both Black & White and color photos are acceptable.

See also Close Up in this edition of Enter.
Dates/deadline: December 15 2006
Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Competition
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Say the organisers: The thirteenth annual Project Competition honors committed photographers working on long-term documentary projects and fine-art series
Work derived from all photographic processes, both traditional and digital, are accepted, as well as mixed media work that is photo-based. Both fine art and documentary photography, and all combinations thereof, are acceptable. Work that has been published by a major photographic publishing house or university press is not eligible for the Project Competition.


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