PBN 2011 Winners

September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

PBN 2011 Grand Prize Winner from Blurb Books on Vimeo.

PBN 2011 Category Winners from Blurb Books on Vimeo.

This year’s Grand Prize winner is an innovative and moving “book-within-a-book” that chronicles the mafia-controlled streets of Naples through the accidental killing of a young girl. Valerio Spada combines on-the-street photography with photos of the original police documents to show, in the author’s words, “the problems of becoming a woman in a dangerous, crime-ridden area. Adolescence is almost denied.”

Gomorrah Girl was chosen by an international panel of 12 judges from more than 2,300 entries in four different categories. Valerio Spada received a $25,000 cash prize courtesy of HP Indigo Digital Press.

The panel of international judges also chose four books as the best in their respective categories – Fine Art, Documentary, Travel, and Student. Each winner received a $5,000 cash prize courtesy of Adobe®. Lead PBN 2011 Juror Darius Himes discusses the category winners.

Find out more about Blurb’s PBN contest here.

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Blurb’s Photography Book Now contest celebrates the best self-published photography books of the year – and the people behind them.

Up to 200 books per category (Travel, Documentary, Student, Fine Art) have been selected for People’s Choice voting.

Winners receive $1,500.

Vote for your favorites by August 30.

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Darius Himes clearly describes the judging criteria for Blurb’s PBN contest.

Read more about Blurb’s PBN contest here.

Find Darius Himes book Publish Your Photography Book here.

Visit Darius Himes’ website here.

Learn more in my bookmaking resources here.

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Have your work seen by top photo industry judges.

Plus, the Photo Annual is sent to over 5,000 creatives.

Awards include …

- awards celebration May 2011 in NYC
- work featured in PDN June issue and website
- $15,000 Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation Prize for Portraiture
- The Marty Forscher Fellowship Fund professional award and student award
- The Sony Emerging Photographer Award:  – camera, cash, article

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Only two more weeks remain in Blurb’s Photography Book Now contest.

Blurb books must be submitted by 11:59 PDT July 15.

Categories include Fine Art, Editorial, and Portfolio.

The Grand Prize is $25,000.

Jurors include Darius Himes, Monica Allende, David Fahey, Michael Mack, Lesley A Martin, Susan Meisalas, Erin O’Tool, Martin Parr, Judith Puckett-Rinella, and Brian Smith.

Get the inside scoop from the jurors here.

What makes a winning photo book? Darius Himes (publisher)
Which photo books have been most influential? David Fahey (dealer)
What books should you read on a desert island? Brian Smith (photographer)
What are last year’s PBN winners are up to now?

Learn more about the the PBN Contest here.

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Here are two of my 5 entries for the APPOS iPhone Photo Contest.

The APPOS iPhone Photo Contest Ends in less than 24 hours.
It’s not too late to enter or vote! It closes Feb 28th at 10 am GMT.

Check out all the entries here.
Find my entries here – type Caponigro into Search.
Vote for your favorite images.
Vote for your favorite Apps.

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APPOSiphonecontest
The APPOS iPhone Contest Ends in less than 24 hours.
It’s not too late to enter or vote! It closes Feb 28th at 10 am GMT.

Check out all the entries here.
Find my entries here – type Caponigro into Search.
Vote for your favorite images.
Vote for your favorite Apps.

Winners will be announced March 23.

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The APPOS iPhone Awards & Photo Contest
It starts right now! Literally.
7 am PST January 15 it opens.
It closes 7 pm PDT March 22.
Enter now, enter tomorrow, enter as often as you like – it’s free.
Vote for your favorite images and Apps.
Eligibility
Images must be taken and processed with iPhones and iPhone Apps only.

Prizes
1    $1000 Adorama Gift Certificate
10  Wacom Tablets
15  Canon Wireless Printers
30  $100 Adorama Gift Certificates
25  $50 Apple App Store Gift Cards

Judges
Scott Kelby, Joe McNally, Eric Meola Moose Peterson, Syl Arena, Boomer & Carton

Vote
You can vote for and comment on entries.
You can even vote for your favorite photo App.

Find out more about the contest and see the entries here.

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January AfterCapture and November Rangefinder issues feature Photoworkshops.com’s Photography and Digital Imaging contest winners .
I juried Photo Illustration.
Anthony Bannon (The George Eastmann House) juried Straight Photography.

Find out more about the contest here.

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PBN’s lead judge, Darius Himes, co-founder of Radius Books, is interviewed by photo-eye Director, Rixon Reed.

Here are a few choice excerpts.

“Creating a successful book involves editing and sequencing and design all in light and in line with an overriding concept that has to be determined ahead of time. Asking yourself ahead of time, “Who is this book for?” and “What am I trying to accomplish with this book?” is extremely important.

I think that print-on-demand books have become so popular for two main reasons. First, they open up a major industry to the amateur: publishing. For the average American, it’s novel and fun to take your photos and lay them out in a book, push a button and a week later get something that looks pretty professional. That’s fun!

For the photography “professional” or art photographer, it’s also fun, but in a slightly more serious way. Most photographers dream of seeing their work in print (for a variety of reasons) and this technology opens up a whole world to them. It’s the publishing world made accessible.

But what most photographers don’t realize is that there are a whole host of people in the publishing world that work hard behind the scenes on different aspects of books, and when those people aren’t included—designers, editors, typographers, marketers, and distributors—they often end up with an inferior product.

Printing a book with an offset printer is different than using the HP Indigo printing process that is currently the standard for print-on-demand books … If you expect a print-on-demand book to look like, or have the range of materials, that an offset printed book has, you’ll be disappointed. … each has their advantages and disadvantages.

There’s no print-on-demand “author” that has sold 1000s of copies of their book (that I’m aware of). If they had, they would have made more money using offset printing and selling the project to a publisher. Again, it’s the quantity game.”

Read the whole interview on photo-eye.
Check out photo-eye.
Check out Radius books.
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DoubleExposure magazine has announced the winners of Photoworkshop.com’s Digital Imaging Competition.

“Several months ago we announced our Digital Imaging competition, with two categories: Photo Illustration, which was judged by fine-art photographer/Adobe Photoshop expert John Paul Caponigro; and Straight Photography, judged by the Director of the George Eastman House, Tony Bannon. The quality of the hundreds of entries in each category that we received was truly incredible!”

The results are in! See the images here!

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I’ll be co-judging this year’s Photoworkshops.com Photography and Digital Imaging Competition.

Here’s more information.

Deadline
May 1, 2009

Entry Fee
$25 for the first image, all additional images – $10 (up to 5)

Eligibility
Open to everyone 18 years of age or older except where prohibited by law.

Prizes
Over $17,000 in prizes
Selected images will appear on the covers and inside the pages of After Capture and Rangefinder magazines.

Two Categories
Straight Photography/Lightly Manipulated
Defined as generally straight photography with minimal or no graphics software enhancement.
Judged by Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director, George Eastman House.

Photo Illustration/Manipulated
Applies to images having undergone significant graphics software manipulation.
Judged by John Paul Caponigro, fine artist.

View the Complete List of Awards and Competition Rules here.

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Congratulations to the winners of Blurb’s Photography.Book.Now contest.
The winning photographers and their books are …

- Grand Prize:                            Beth Dow, In The Garden
- Category Winner, Themed:       Jonathan Smith, The Bridge Project
- Category Winner, General:       Talia Chetrit, Reading
- First Runner-up, Themed:        Cara Phillips, Singular Beauty
- First Runner-up, General:         John Lehr, Something is Happening
- Second Runner-up, Themed:    Panar, Johnstown / Lowy, Iraq Perspectives (tie)
- Second Runner-up, General:     Michael Corridore, Roadworks

Which Blurb books you enjoy most? Comment here!

Find out about the contest here.
Check out all the winners and the honorable mention and preview their books online.
Check out my Blurb book Antarctica here.

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Blurb received over 2,000 entries for their recent Photography.Book.Now contest. Winners will be announced September 10th.

They’ve just added an additional award – the People’s Choice Award – so you have a chance to let the world know who you think is the best of the best. Voting is open through September 10th.

Here’s how it works.

You can vote for one book, and one book only. Just go to the Photography.Book.Now bookstore to see all the work, then click on the voting button under your favorite book. (The button’s big and orange, should be pretty easy to spot.) Want to stack the deck for your top choice? We have some tools to make it easy for you to spread the word. You can download an image to forward along in emails, or grab a People’s Choice voting badge for your website or blog by clicking here to save the file. Once you cast your vote, you can also send a note directly from the bookstore to bring your people right back to your top choice.

The winner of the People’s Choice Award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in San

Francisco on September 19th. Pick up your tickets here. The prize? They’re keeping that one a secret. Who doesn’t love a little surprise?

Check out my book entry Antarctica here.

If you like it, I’d appreciate your vote!

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