Now in its third year, the competition is organized to coincide with Visa Pour l’Image, the world’s largest photojournalism festival, held in Perpignan in late August. The France 24-RFI Web Documentary Award “honours web documentary that sets itself apart from the other entries in terms of choice of subject, originality, and innovative use of new … Continue reading
Organised by the World Photography Organisation, the Sony World Photography Awards is an annual contest open to both amateur and professional photographers. In the professional competition, photographers can enter 15 categories divided into three themes – commercial, fine art, and photojournalism and documentary. This year a Nature and Wildlife category has been added in a … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES. Few would argue that Art in the Streets , the current exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA Moca, until 8 August), has been a failure. The show is on track to break the museum’s attendance records with 22,000 visitors in the opening week, according to arts news website Arrested … Continue reading
RIO DE JANEIRO. The world’s carnival capital is on a mission to become its cultural heart too, with a major injection of cash and a rash of cultural initiatives. Rio’s new culture secretary, has doubled the city’s annual budget from R53m to R106m ($33.4m to $66.7m). Rio lost a lot of its power when Brasilia … Continue reading
