CONTACT

Pictures of the Year International
Phone: 573-884-2188
Email: info@poyi.org
Web: www.poyi.org

Mailing address:
Pictures of the Year International
Missouri School of Journalism
109 Lee Hills Hall
Columbia, MO 65211

For 2018, new Prize schedule

AWARDS & PRIZES

$1,000 cash prizes & Tiffany crystal trophies awarded to::
• Photographer of the Year
• Newspaper Photographer of the year
• World Understanding Award
• Community Awareness Award
• Environmental Vision Award

Tiffany crystal trophy awarded to::
• Multimedia Photographer of the Year
• Sports Photographer of the Year
• Newspaper Visual Editor of the Year
• Magazine/Media Photographer of the Year
• Documentary Project of the Year
• Best Photography Book

Individual category winner awards:
1st — Engraved plaque
2nd, 3rd, & AE — Certificate

KEY DATES

Online registration opens:
Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018

Deadline for entries:
Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019,
5:59 p.m. (U.S. Central Standard Time)
11:59 p.m. (Greenwich Mean Time)

Judging in Columbia, Mo.:
Feb. 11 – March 1, 2019

Pictures of the Year International is excited to announce the Rising Star scholarship recipient: Rosem Morton

For more than 75 years, POY has recognized excellence in visual reporting and has shared that experience with students and professionals. We believe that watching POY in person can be transformative. Therefore, we offered this opportunity to a working visual journalist of color with less than five years of professional experience.

Photographer and nurse Rosem Morton was selected as this year’s recipient and is attending POY 76.

Born and raised in the Philippines, Morton is now based in Baltimore, Md. Her work focuses on the intimacies of family and daily life, as well as the resilience of the human spirit around topics of immigration, sexual assault and women’s issues.

Congratulations to Rosem and welcome to the POY family!

The POY Rising Star Scholarship

Pictures of the Year is excited to announce the Rising Star Scholarship to attend the POY judging. We are offering this opportunity to a working visual journalist of color with five or less years of professional experience.

For 75 years POY has recognized excellence in visual reporting. Through an intensive judging process, the best of the industry is selected each year. The judging is streamed live so that anyone can see the process and hear the discussion. However, watching it in person, uninterrupted by the outside world, takes the experience to a deeper level. It can be humbling and inspiring to see the breadth of photography and hear the judges debate the merits of the work. The experience has been called a master class in visual leadership.

Photographers from nearly 100 countries enter their coverage of news and communities from all over the world. It is this diversity that makes watching POY so powerful.

And, it is in this spirit, that we are launching the scholarship. POY will pay for your travel, food and lodging. We want you to be our VIP guest!

We know that the diversity of the communities that we cover are not fully reflected in our industry. We need more perspectives. One step toward that goal is to use the POY platform to support visual journalists of color in becoming leaders in our profession.

As a Rising Star Scholarship recipient, you will have a ringside seat to watch the judging, gain insight into what it takes to win in POY and get VIP treatment. You will have plenty of one-on-one time with the judges, making important contacts and having the chance to discuss industry topics on a high level. You will see what it takes to be the best, from the best.

We believe POY can be a powerful step on your path to being an industry leader. Come walk with us.

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COPYRIGHTS & USAGE STATEMENT

I declare that I am authorized by the holder of the copyright (or the right to copyright) to submit photographs to the 75th annual Pictures of the Year International (POY) competition. Pictures of the Year International (POY) recognizes and respects that copyrights are held by the photographer and/or news organization. I grant permission to Pictures of the Year International and the Missouri School of Journalism to use my submitted photographs in exhibitions, in publications, and in promotions of the competition itself, and for educational, research, and historical record purposes concerning Pictures of the Year International. This usage includes, but is not limited to, slides/tapes, television film/tapes, videodisc, DVDs, CDs, websites, and any other type of mechanical, electronic, or digital dissemination system. Winning photographs, published tearsheets, editing displays, multimedia productions, and other images selected for historic significance become part of the permanent POY Archive. By entering, I declare that the photographs were taken or initially published during the calendar year of 2017. (The time period does not apply to the World Understanding Award.)

Pictures of the Year International is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The University of Missouri is a public, tax-exempt educational institution of the State of Missouri. POY provides an educational mission for career development and student advancement, without profit. To achieve the educational mission of the competition, POY requests $50 (U.S. dollars) compensation from participants to cover the costs associated with operation of the competition.