Each year there’s this little competition amongst photographers called the College Photographer of the Year. It’s open to any photographer enrolled in a college or university. Most years there are more than 600 photographers from over 130 colleges around the world that submit their work to be judged. But why? Experience, knowledge and feedback are just some of the reasons.
In 2005, National Geographic Magazine returned as a contributing sponsor and currently offers an internship to the Gold winner in the Portfolio category. The College Photographer of the Year, Runner-up College Photographer of the Year and winners in the Individual Story and Multimedia Project (Individual/Small Team) categories of the contest are awarded equipment and additional educational opportunities provided by Nikon Inc., Media Storm and the Missouri Photo Workshop.
The College Photographer of the Year Competition was founded by Cliff and Vi Edom in 1945 (which makes this year the 67th year of the competition). The University of Missouri administers the contest with support from its co-sponsor, Nikon Inc., whose generosity allows CPOY to offer free entry to college students worldwide.
Some of the judges include Robert Hood from NBC news, Kurt Mutchler from National Geographic, Janet Reeves from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and many more. Altogether there’s nine judges. If you’d like to see all of them you may do so by clicking right here.
Although there’s still a lot of judging to be done between now and tomorrow the University of Missouri has a lot of volunteers working to post the most up to date photo winners for the categories thus far. If you’re interested in seeing the winners for the categories that have already been judged, you can follow this link.
Below is a photo and corresponding caption of the bronze winner for the sports action category that was judged on Monday. Other categories that were judged Monday include sports feature and spot news.
MU Junior tailback Kendial Lawrence rolls into the end zone, scoring a touchdown, on Nov. 12, 2011 against the Texas Longhorns at Faurot Field. The Tigers defeated the Longhorns 17-5. Texas was the last Big 12 team for MU head coach, Gary Pinkel, to defeat.
The MU School of Journalism has also set up a blog for the CPoY competition. If that’s not your speed you can check out the CPoY Facebook page. If that’s still too much information to take in and you need little blurbs, say about 140 characters or less, you can check out the CPoY Twitter account. If you’d just like to skim over the entire website, you can do that by following this link.
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