The results of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2023 competition have been announced and American photographer Kat Zhou has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year for her outstanding photo of an Amazon river dolphin.
The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) has announced the finalists of its inaugural Woman Science Photographer of the Year competition at an awards ceremony hosted by the RPS in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Last week, the UK's Royal Society of Biology unveiled the winners of its annual photo contest. And while you've probably never heard of this particular contest before, this year's winning image has earned the contest a place in the headlines.
This photograph of a woman glued to her smartphone has been selected as the Grand Prize winner of the 2014 National Geographic Photography Contest. It was captured by photographer Brian Yen of Hong Kong.
It's one thing to swipe a photo and slap it on your website, and quite another to enter that stolen image into a high-profile photo contest passed off as your own work.
That is exactly what Mark Joseph Solis, a graduate student at the University of the Philippines, is discovering as he becomes a subject of international ridicule for winning several thousand dollars worth of prizes with a purloined portrait.
One of the downsides to living in an uber-connected digital world is the ease with which intellectual property can be stolen. Whichever bogus excuse they choose to use, many people seem less than concerned when it comes to stealing someone's photography and claiming it as their own these days.
One such person is Instagram user @bogdhan, who recently won Samsung's 'Live in the Moment' Instagram contest (and an NX300) using a photo that he never actually took.