{"id":21389,"date":"2018-10-11T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=21389"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:14:49","slug":"iafor-documentary-photography-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/iafor-documentary-photography-award\/","title":{"rendered":"IAFOR Documentary Photography Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ezra Acayan\" href=\"https:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/grand-prize-ezra-acayan\/\">Ezra Acayan<\/a>\u00a0is the Grand Prize Winner of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/winners-2018\/\">IAFOR Documentary Photography Award<\/a> in recognition of his work documenting the ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines. Congratulations to Ezra on this achievement!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21390\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01_ezra_acayan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21390\" src=\"https:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01_ezra_acayan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01_ezra_acayan.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01_ezra_acayan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01_ezra_acayan-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01_ezra_acayan-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Ezra Acayan. <em>Supporters stretch their hands towards a portrait of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during a welcome rally outside Malaca\u00d2ang Palace in Manila, Philippines on June 30, 2016, his inauguration day.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ezra will now receive the following as part of his Grand Prize package:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cash prize of \u00a31,000 GBP from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iafor.org\/\">The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A grant of up to $500 USD towards airfare and accommodation, and a scholarship to cover full conference registration fees for the IAFOR conference at which his work will be showcased<\/li>\n<li>Acceptance into the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroimaging.co.uk\/metro-imaging-mentorships\">Metro Imaging Mentorship Programme<\/a>\u00a0together with \u00a31,000 GBP credit to spend on Metro Imaging services such as scanning, printing and mounting<\/li>\n<li>Inclusion in World Press Photo\u2019s final list of nominees for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/academy\/joop-swart-masterclass\">Joop Swart Masterclass<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tuition fee waiver for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/train\/workshop\/one-day-workshop\">MediaStorm Multimedia One-Day Workshop<\/a>\u00a0and free access to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/train\/product\/online-training-videos\">MediaStorm\u2019s Online Training Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinktankphoto.com\/products\/airport-advantage\">Think Tank Photo Airport Advantage roller bag<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Photography to be exhibited at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iafor.org\/conferences\/\">IAFOR conferences<\/a>\u00a0in Japan, Hong Kong, USA and UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations also to\u00a0<a title=\"Subhrajit Sen\" href=\"http:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/second-place-subhrajit-sen\/\">Subhrajit Sen<\/a>\u00a0(Second Place) from India,\u00a0<a title=\"Elliott Verdier\" href=\"https:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/third-place-elliott-verdier\/\">Elliott Verdier<\/a>\u00a0(Third Place) from France,\u00a0<a title=\"Camillo Pasquarelli\" href=\"https:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/honourable-mention-camillo-pasquarelli\/\">Camillo Pasquarelli<\/a>\u00a0(Honourable Mention) from Italy, and\u00a0<a title=\"Farshid Tighehsaz\" href=\"https:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/honourable-mention-farshid-tighehsaz\/\">Farshid Tighehsaz<\/a>\u00a0(Honourable Mention) from Iran, who will also receive prizes from Think Tank Photo, MediaStorm and The International Academic Forum (IAFOR).<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to support photographers dedicated to documenting important issues around the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/iaforphotoaward.org\/winners-2018\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Acayan\u00a0is the Grand Prize Winner of this year\u2019s IAFOR Documentary Photography Award in recognition of his work documenting the ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines. Congratulations to Ezra on this achievement! Ezra will now receive the following as part of his Grand Prize package: A cash prize of \u00a31,000 GBP from\u00a0The International Academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-announcements","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21393,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}