The winners of the Estação Imagem/Mora International Photojournalism Award are announced on April 14, with the main novelty of this edition being the opening of the competition to the participation of photojournalists from Galicia (Spain) and whose entries are open until March 31.
The annual Estação Imagem/Mora International Photojournalism Award is now in its 3rd edition and was only open to photojournalists from Portuguese and African Countries of Portuguese Official Language (PALOP).
This partnership with the Spanish region of Galicia comes after the holding, in August 2011, of an exhibition of works awarded by the Estação Imagem prize at the Galician photography festival, entitled Proxecta.
Another novelty this year is the "simplification" of the registration procedures whose details are in www.estacao-image.com.
The main award of the initiative, dedicated exclusively to reporting, is the Estação Imagem/Mora International Photojournalism Award, to which six other categories are added: news, daily life, sport, arts and entertainment, environment and series of portraits.
This year's jury is chaired by Emilio Morenatti, a war photojournalist for the Associated Press (AP), and will meet starting April 12 in Mora.
Emilio Morenatti was named Photojournalist of the Year in 2010 by the National Press Photographers Association, and Best Press Photojournalist in 2008 by Pictures of the Year International (POYi).
The jury includes another five members: Frédérique Babin, head of photography at Le Monde Magazine, Patrick Baz, from Agence France Press (AFP), Marion Duran, photo editor at Newsweek magazine, Pablo Juliá, director of Centro Andaluz de Fotografia, and Arianna Rinaldo, photo editor at D-La Repubblica delle Donne and director of documentary photography magazine Ojodepez.
Last year, nearly 500 reports were submitted to a contest, written by 164 photojournalists, with Nelson Aires winning the main award (and also the portrait series category).
On the 14th, after the awards ceremony, the exhibition and the Scholarship book awarded to Paulo Alegria by the 2011 jury for the Cultura Magra project on cultural, sporting and recreational associativism in Mora will be presented at Casa da Cultura in Mora. county of Mora.
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