Index World Press Photo
February 2008 | Edition Nine     

Date/deadline: April 1 – May 15, 2008 (tentative)
Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Contest
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This photography contest is open to all students who are eighteen years of age or older at the time of entry and actively enrolled at a two-year, four-year, or advanced degree-granting college or university. All entries submitted must be original, not have been previously published, released or distributed and must have been created and owned exclusively by the submitting entrant. A single entrant may submit a maximum total of three digital photographs in any of the following categories: Nature & Landscape, People & Portraits, Fine Art. Click here for for digital imaging articles, free downloads and future contest details as they become available.
Date/deadline: March 24 2008
Miguel Gil Moreno Journalism Prize
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The Miguel Gil Moreno Foundation and Random House Mondadori announce their competition for the seventh Miguel Gil Moreno Journalism Prize. Journalists from any country, working in any medium, are welcome to apply. Entries must be translated into Spanish. The prize was founded in honor of Moreno, an independent correspondent and war reporter who was killed in an ambush in Sierra Leone, along with Reuters correspondent Kurt Schork, in May 2000. Entries should reflect Moreno’s work covering social injustice and should have been published between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. Send entries to info@fundacionmiguelgilmoreno.com or to the Miguel Gil Moreno Foundation, C/O Camelias, 23, bajos, 08024 Barcelona, Spain. Photographs should be 18 cm x 24 cm, jpg format and accompanied by clips from the publications in which they first appeared. Include no more than 10 images. Each entry should include a brief CV. Work in other media should include the name of the medium and the date of publication or broadcast.
Date/deadline: 30 April, 2008
The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards
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The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards conducts two competitions each year--one for professional photographers and one for non-professionals. Both are open to photographers anywhere in the world. Each photograph must be accompanied by a submission form listing your name, contact information and entry fee. You may submit as many photographs as you like; you may also enter a single photograph in as many categories as you deem appropriate. Entry Fees: The International Photography Awards seeks to reach all photographers around the globe. In an effort to make the competition internationally accessible, they've prepared a discounted rate for certain countries based on an analysis of each country's GDP per head. Visit the website for further details.


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