Global sales of digital cameras will reach 80-90 million units this year and rise to 100 million in 2007 due to fast growing demand in new markets, according to leading digital camera makers in Taiwan.
New photo industry website launches this week
Media Publishing, publisher of this website and enthusiast magazine Photo Review Australia, is this week launching a new insiders’ website for the imaging industry called Photo Counter – www.photocounter.com.au.
He’s got to be Rankin!
If you happen to be in London this Friday (July 31), why not call in at the Old Truman brewery, where for the modest sum of 10 pounds (around $20) you will be granted entrance to Shoot Me Rankin, ‘a live and interactive photo-shoot experience in which previously selected members of the public will be shot by Rankin and their images immediately added to the exhibition.’
Harvard laurels for Australian photojournalist
Photojournalist Stephen Dupont is the first Australian to be awarded the prestigious Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
York Society Photographic Awards
Residents of Western Australia are invited to submit photographs to the annual York Photographic Awards, which offers cash prizes to winners.
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
The last Sunday in April has been declared Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day and photographers are encouraged to take photos using a camera they’ve built themselves.
“World’s Next Top Digital Photographer” Contest
The Pixel Place is scouring the world for digital photo submissions to its “World’s Next Top Digital Photographer” contest.
World Press Photo Winners on Show in May
Canon Australia will present an exhibition of the winners of the most prestigious international contest in professional press photography, World Press Photo, in Australia in May.
World Press Photo Winners Announced
Winners of the 2011 World Press Photo Awards were announced over the weekend, with Australian photographers taking out three major awards.
World Press Photo Winners on Show
Canon will sponsor an exhibition of the winners of the esteemed World Press Photo contest, which opens at the State Library of NSW on 8 May and then at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 12 June.
