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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.

The Pixel Place is scouring the world for digital photo submissions to its “World’s Next Top Digital Photographer” contest.

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.

Winners of the 2011 World Press Photo Awards were announced over the weekend, with Australian photographers taking out three major awards.

World Press Photo has added a competition for multimedia productions in visual journalism to its annual press photography contest, which has run since 1955.

This year’s winner of the coveted World Press Photo of the Year award went to a colour image taken on 31 March, 2003, by French photographer Jean-Marc Bouju. The image depicts a hooded Iraqi war prisoner holding his 4-year-old son at a US detention camp in Iraq and portrays a rare moment of humanity in a war zone.

Winning photographs in the World Press Photo of the Year 2004 international contest will go on display at the State Library of NSW, from 24 June to 17 July 2005.