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Welcome to the 64th annual POYi competition
Rick Shaw |
Columbia, Mo. (November 15, 2006) -- Welcome to the 64th annual Pictures
of the Year International photojournalism competition. With the numerous improvements
and
changes in
this year's competition, we wanted to provide you with this advance look at
the contest divisions and categories.
Our goal is to make the categories more relevant and the process more efficient.
This will be our second year for accepting online entries. We have added news,
features and sports categories to the multimedia division, we have included
a category called "Human Conflict," which we feel is particularly
relevant this year, and we are unveiling a new category on Photographer's Column.
When you enter POYi, your work becomes a part of visual history. Now in its
64th year, Pictures of the Year International is important because it is a
living and a valuable archive. More than 35,000 photographs have been selected
as the best pictures from each year, 1943 to now. We have recently been able
to access these pictures readily through a searchable electronic database that
will prove useful to photographers, students, educators and journalism and
social science researchers. We believe these images are important, that they
represent the best images from the photojournalism community and that POYi
is an appropriate repository for this remarkable collection of work.
Entries will begin being accepted in late December, with a Friday, January
19 deadline. It is expected to take the judges three weeks to review and select
the best from almost 40,000 entries. The open judging begins with the newspaper
and general division in on February 18, moves to the magazine divisions during
the following week, and then concludes on March 7 with the editing divisions.
Special Interest for 2006
• Complete online entry, registration, and payment. The web platform
to submit electronic entries will be available in late December. Easy-to-follow
instruction will guide you through the process to register and uploading
your images for specific categories. Also there will be instruction for editors
to post pdf pages for editing categories.
• Human Conflict — Each year POYi identifies a topic or theme that
characterizes the past year. The effects of human conflict span our globe,
from domestic abuse to the events in Lebanon and Darfur.
• One Week's Work — This POYi classic is now a premiere category
with a cash award of $1,000.
• Expanded Multimedia Categories — Last year's Best Multimedia Story
will expand to three separate categories for news, features and sports.
• Best Photographer's Column — This is a new category that recognizes
the explosion of photo columns, blogs and journals. This is an effort to
reward individual enterprise both in print and online.
• Freelance Entries — POYi is broadening the definition of the Magazine
Division, to include agency, freelance, and contract assignment work. The
individual categories will remain similar to the previous year, but the spirit
of the change is to acknowledge the changing work dynamic.
San Francisco is our destination for this year's POYi Education and Awards
Program on April 27 28, in partnership with the University of California-Berkeley,
San Francisco State and San Jose State.
We invite you to enter — to appraise your work, to define the standards and
to allow your images to reflect our world
— Rick Shaw, POYi Director
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