Photojournalism & POYi

Best Use - Online Publications: First Place, NGM.com
Best Use - Newspapers: First Place, The New York Times
Best Use - Magazines: First Place, GEO kompakt

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POYi is the oldest and the most prestigious photojournalism program and competition in the world. Each year, freelance, agency, and newspaper photographers around the world document the stories, personalities and places that capture our interest and demand our attention.

Judges vote in or out in the Fred W. Smith Forum during the 67th POYi competition.

POYi began as a photographic contest in the spring of 1944 in Columbia, Missouri, when the Missouri School of Journalism sponsored its "First Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition" contest. Its stated purpose was, "to pay tribute to those press photographers and newspapers which, despite tremendous war-time difficulties, are doing a splendid job; to provide an opportunity for photographers of the nation to meet in open competition; and to compile and preserve...a collection of the best in current, home-front press pictures."

Pictures of the Year International (POYi), a print and digital exhibition of some of the best photojournalism from 2010, will be displayed at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. from April to October 2011. New for the 2010 competition are special categories for the coverage of the mid-term political races, the earthquake in Haiti, the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and the Winter Olympics.

Pictures of the Year International (POYi) and Nuestra Mirada are partnering to produce the inaugural POYi Latin America Visual Journalism Contest and Fiesta de la Imagen to Ecuador March 14-18, 2011. Nuestra Mirada is an online network of photojournalists in Central and South America.

Eighty funerals a day take place at Manila’s North Cemetery, the burial grounds for Filipino presidents and other celebrities. Today the cemetery is also home to roughly 2,000 of the city’s poorest families. In order to bring the story of the breathing citizens of North Cemetery to life, James Chance, the 2010 recipient of the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Emerging Vision Incentive, will spend the next year photographing the unique community. POYi is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute (RJI).

Pictures of the Year International is honored to return to the Annenberg Space for Photography for a second consecutive year. The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles will host an extended exhibition of POYi award-winning images beginning June 26, 2010. The Annenberg Space for Photography is the premiere venue for the POYi Awards & Education program. POYi is honored to receive support from the Annenberg Foundation for the 67th annual program that includes a three-month public display of POYi's "Visions of Excellence" gallery showing of both print and digital documentary photography.

A review of photo editing apps.

A review of compact mobile tripods.