{"id":533753,"date":"2026-07-05T05:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533753\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:26:11","slug":"this-is-your-chance-to-be-published-as-an-excellent-photojournalist-the-tom-stoddart-awards-returns-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533753\/","title":{"rendered":"This is your chance to be published as an “excellent” photojournalist: The Tom Stoddart Awards returns for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fantastic opportunity for an established photojournalist to have their work printed in a custom photobook by a major UK publisher has returned for 2026.<\/p>\n

Now in its second year, The Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence celebrates one lucky established photojournalist by teaming up with publisher Gost to print a custom book on the winning long-form project.<\/p>\n

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Based in London, Gost publishes visual arts books and has collaborated with the likes of Sir Don McCullin<\/a> on his more recent works Life, Death and Everything in Between (2023)<\/a>, The Stillness of Life (2025)<\/a> and the forthcoming Vietnam (2026)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Along with the book of their work, which will go on sale via Gost\u2019s platform and be publicized in The Guardian, the winner will also receive a healthy \u00a35,000 (approximately $6,700 \/ AU$9,700) to visit the printing facilities in Verona, Italy.<\/p>\n

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\"A(Image credit: Laura Pannack)<\/p>\n

Above: Laura Pannack received the 2025 Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence for her photo series documenting children’s dangerous school journeys in Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

\"Two(Image credit: Laura Pannack)<\/p>\n

The Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence was founded in 2025 by the Ian Parry Memorial Fund, which also runs the eponymous, longstanding grant<\/a> for emerging photojournalists.<\/p>\n

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The new award is named after the late photojournalist Tom Stoddart, whose celebrated career covering pivotal global events (such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the HIV\/AIDS pandemic in Africa for outlets including The Sunday Times) spanned five decades.<\/p>\n

Entrants to the competition need to be at least 18 years old and the project submitted should be near completion and extensive enough for publishing. A short personal biography along with a brief summary of the project should be included, as well as up to 40 images taken from the project.<\/p>\n

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Entries to the awards can now be made until September 30, 2026. Judging will take place in October with the award recipient announced November 30.<\/p>\n

It costs \u00a350 to enter the Tom Stoddart Awards for Excellence, with the important note that AI-generated imagery is not allowed. Visit the award official webpage<\/a> for more information and to enter.<\/p>\n

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The 2025 Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence winner was Laura Pannack<\/a>, for her photo series documenting children’s dangerous school journeys in Cape Town, South Africa. If you want to try your hand at photojournalism, documentary and reportage work, take a look at the best cameras for street photography<\/a> and the best lenses for street photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fantastic opportunity for an established photojournalist to have their work printed in a custom photobook by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-533753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}