Open to all photographers, the 2011 European Publishers Award for Photography is the result of a collaboration between five European publishers - Actes Sud in France, Apeiron in Greece, Dewi Lewis Publishing of Great Britain, Kehrer Verlag in Germany and Italian Peliti Associati.
Photographers are invited to submit a "substantial, completed and unpublished photographic book project," which, if selected, will be published "in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in their own country."
Open to all photographers, the 2011 European Publishers Award for Photography is the result of a collaboration between five European publishers - Actes Sud in France, Apeiron in Greece, Dewi Lewis Publishing of Great Britain, Kehrer Verlag in Germany and Italian Peliti Associati.
Photographers are invited to submit a "substantial, completed and unpublished photographic book project," which, if selected, will be published "in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in their own country."
Second Place
From the icy Arctic to Africa's dense jungles - and the mountain tops of Mongolia to the deep waters of the Pacific - the BBC series Human Planet has explored mankind's incredible relationship with nature.
Accompanying the film crews was photographer Timothy Allen. His stunning still images captured unique glimpses of people living in the world's most extreme environments. Take a look at some of them, and listen to him explain how he snapped the most arresting shots.
BBC News - Audio slideshow: Human Planet
Canadian photographer Louie Palu has been photographing the conflict in Afghanistan for the past five years. During that time his work from the frontline has been widely published and has won him numerous awards, including Canadian photojournalist of the year. Now, however, his focus is shifting to editing the work into a comprehensive record of the country's latest conflict, and with that comes a chance to see his pictures of a quieter Afghanistan.
My mobile phone has barely stopped ringing over the past few days; my colleagues, friends and former students have all been calling and asking the same question:
“Have you already seen the results from the World Press Photo Contest on the Internet? What’s happening to global journalism? You’ve been on the jury three times; surely you have some understanding. Can you explain this?”
What’s wrong with global photojournalism? | Russia Beyond The Headlines
