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A personal opinion about the winners of Corbis´ I AM BURIED contest

In September, Corbis ran a contest called I Am Buried, which encouraged ad creatives to bitch about how hard life is in the most enviable job any college burnout ever dreamed of. Winners got shopping sprees, personal assistants and other stuff you fantasize about when you´re depressed and not buying razors.

We held off on covering this because we thought it would be more interesting to wait after the campaign, so as to air out the dirty laundry of the winners. It turns out -- surprise of all surprises -- the winning stories were not really all that compelling.

The Corbis Poem and the European Commission

New ways of marketing. New kinds of weapons.

Now this one is really crazy.

In our all-mad-about-YouTube times one of the photographers from a very freedom-loving folk who got upset by the Terms & Conditions of Corbis´ "I am buried" marketing campaign has commissioned a poem from a professional poet to better express his feelings in this matter. I guess rarely anything similar has ever happened.

As for Corbis, it is indicated that they have learned from this affair. Photographers close to the Anti - I am buried campaign disclosed that their protest will continue by indicating that it was now about "getting regulatory changes made to prohibit the acquisition of rights for free by such terms and conditions, and that the Corbis competition had simply been a catalyst for such a movement."

Corbis won´t change the rules of the I am buried contest

Ten days ago Corbis announced the new "I am buried" marketing campaign and quickly received a lot of criticism from photographers and graphics designers for the Terms&Conditions of the contest.

I asked Corbis to express their opinion on these negative reactions and the company responded that "The rules of the Corbis "I am Buried" promotion are standard and consistent with other online contests".

 

Stockxpert´s 1st Annual Image Contest

To preserve and to protect our natural environment: Jupiterimages´microstock website stockxpert is looking for its 1st Annual Image Contest for your best "images that depict or conceptualize the different way in which the global community is helping to make the world a cleaner, a greener place to live".

Contest guidelines are available here, more information in stockxpert´s contest forum.

iStockphoto´s Punctum Day Awards

Still being "incidentally the biggest, the most successful and the most profitable imagery community in the world" (Jonathan Klein), iStockphoto has announced the finalists in the five categories (Photo, Vector, Video, Flash file and Design) for the Punctum Day Awards. Click on the image below to visit the photo gallery with the finalists or follow this link.

 

World Press Photo Contest: Spencer Platt of Getty Images Wins World Press Photo of the Year 2006 Award

 

The winners were just announced: start here, or with the Gallery of prizewinners or the List of all winners.

 

Sipa Press Founder Goksin Sipahioglu Receives Premier French Order Légion d'honneur - A Comment By Pino Granata

I know Goksin Sipahioglu since 30 years.

I'm pretty sure he doesn´t care very much about the Légion d'honneur the french government has awarded him for his legendary career in the photojornalism.

He would rather prefer staying in his old office in Boulevard Murat together with his photographers and writers, talking about new stories to break.

EPUK Awards For The 12 Top 2006 Flops

They just can´t stop themselves. While others announce partly wrong predictions for the year 2007, EPUK, the collective of Editorial Photographers in the UK and Ireland, is just out with a fresh version of The 2006 EPUK Golden Sureshot Awards, also written with all the sarcasm and irony like in the very recent article "The Turkeys Vote For Christmas", which makes the piece once again fun to read.

The Wall Street Journal Cares About Photography

On Sunday the Wall Street Journal published the article "A Photo's Hidden History" in the weekend edition on the iranian photographer Jahangir RazmiI, quoted here. Razmil´s photo of an execution in Iran won the Pulitzer Price 26 years ago, but it was awarded to an unnamed photographer, the only anonymous recipient in the 90-year history of the award.

World Press Photo 2005

Just one image of this years´ World Press Photo contest. More here.

[Nature: 1st prize singles; Sandstorm, Chad by Jahi Chikwendiu, Washington Post]

Posted by Andy