Ian Parry Scholarship calls for entries

Young photographers aged 24 and under, as well as photography students of any age, have until 01 August to enter this year’s Ian Parry Scholarship, worth £3500…..

Created by Aidan Sullivan, the Ian Parry Scholarship is dedicated to 24-year-old photojournalist Ian Parry, who died while on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989.

 The Scholarship is a £3500 cash prize that goes toward the cost of a chosen assignment, which will then be published in The Sunday Times Magazine. In addition, World Press Photo automatically accepts the winner onto its final list of nominees for the Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. Highly commended and commended entrants will also receive £500 each……

For more details, and to enter, visit www.ianparry.org.

Image © Adrian Fussell / Reportage by Getty Images.

Read more: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2272337/ian-parry-scholarship-calls-for-entries#ixzz2Wf5Kd0B1
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Blenheim Palace Flower Show

For many people the reason to get a camera out is to photograph flowers. Flower shows such as Chelsea or Hampton Court provide wonderful opportunities but often crowds too. A flower show closer to home might be the perfect answer and this weekend at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock there is a flower show  We can’t promise fine weather but there will be fine flowers

The RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show: Win tickets and a stay at The Lensbury hotel

Portraits of women – by the men who loved them

Sean O’Hagan writes in The Guardian about a new exhibition in Madrid.

Some of the greatest photos ever taken were by men whose muses were their own wives, as two breathtaking shows at PhotoEspaña 2013 prove

Edith, 1963 by Emmet Gowin

The Azca gallery is tucked at the back of a shopping mall opposite Real Madrid’s towering Bernabeu Stadium. It’s the unlikely setting for one of the most interesting shows in this year’s PhotoEspaña festival: the first European retrospective of the American photographer Emmet Gowin. The show includes his later landscapes, the most dramatic of which capture the volcano Mount St Helens in Washington, US, just after it erupted in 1980. But it is his images of home and family that remain his most evocative……Gowin studied under the great Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design, another photographer who made his wife his enduring subject. Callahan’s work is paired with that of Edward Weston in an exhibition at PhotoEspaña entitled……

Edward Weston, Untitled. Photograph: Edward Weston / Center for Creative Photography

It is a study in contrasts, with Weston’s formal approach turning every nude female into a study of light, shade and shape, while Callahan’s images of his wife, Eleanor seem more intimate and less rigorously posed……..

Read the full article here

If you are going to Spain then you might like to check out this exhibition

International Festival
of photography and visual arts