Call for Entries, Portrait Photography

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - - With photo The NSPCC and PhotoBox today announce the winners of the PhotoBox / ChildLine 2009 Young Photographer of the Year. The competition, launched at the beginning of September, was open to all children under the age of 18.

October 5th, 2009 MELBOURNE, Australia - The 2009 International Aperture Awards is the world's most prestigious international online photography competition. This year a total of USD$88,000 in cash and prizes is on offer! OPEN SECTION The 2009 Open Section of the competition is now open for all professional and non professional photographers with combined cash and prizes of over USD$65,000.

September 23rd, 2009 DUBAI - - Submissions Open Till 8 October Dubai Media City (DMC), the Middle East region's leading media hub and a member of TECOM Investments is accepting student submissions to the eighth Ibda'a Student Awards, an initiative that seeks to discover, showcase and foster young media talent. Open to all undergraduates and fresh graduates of the 2008-2009 academic year, the Ibda'a Awards will accept entries from 16 August - 8 October, 2009.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - - NSPCC and PhotoBox Team up to Find Top Young Snappers PhotoBox has partnered with the NSPCC and their ChildLine service to support the Child's Voice Appeal, which aims to answer every child's cry for help. With this competition PhotoBox will create a platform for young people to celebrate their talent and passion for photography while raising money for a great cause.

September 2nd, 2009 HOUSTON - Hunting PLC, an international oil services company, has announced the call for entries in celebration of the 30th annual Hunting Art Prize, a competition for Texas artists that carries a US$50,000 award for the winner. The Prize relocated to Houston in 2006 after 25 years in the United Kingdom, where it became one of the country's leading art competitions.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - - Portrait to be Shown for Three Days Only Before Returning to The States - With Photo This Thursday 6th August the British Music Experience, the interactive exhibition of popular music situated within The O2, will display Andy Warhol's (Green) Michael Jackson portrait. The British Music Experience will be the only European venue to host the 1984 portrait before it returns to New York to go under the hammer.

July 26th, 2009 LONDON - Entries are now invited for the 2009 WorkWorld Media Awards. The prestigious WorkWorlds seek to recognise outstanding written and broadcast journalism covering the fields of work, management, business and economics.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - - To Celebrate 45 Years of Breakfast With Nutella, the Hazelnut Spread Launches Family Photography Competition To celebrate 45 years of nutella at breakfast, the hazelnut spread is inviting families to take part in a photography competition featuring their families enjoying breakfast. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: www.prnewswire.com/mnr/nutella/38892/ To enter, parents should submit a picture which captures families enjoying breakfast together.

April 8th, 2009 PARIS - A creative laboratory but also a social insight, the La fabrique du portrait, Rodin face a ses modeles exhibition invites you to discover the considerable but little-known work of Rodin the portraitist. It highlights the artist's creative process and approach in building a portrait.

March 29th, 2009 ANTWERP, Belgium - Princess Grace Kelly would have been 80 this year. Artist Peter Engels has painted this 'Vintage Portrait' in homage to her.

August 24th, 2009 National Geographic announces photography contestWASHINGTON — Are you proud of your vacation photos, nature pictures or other images from your travels? Consider entering the 2009 National Geographic International Photography Contest. There are three categories — people, places and nature — and you can enter a total of six photographs.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah went mysteriously missing from the PM House auditorium just before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was to address the media there. Officials at the auditorium were shocked when they found Jinnah's portrait missing from its place.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust here has unveiled what they call the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime, showing a rosy-cheeked poet, with a frilly white lace collar, a full head of hair and a reddish brown beard. The portrait of Shakespeare is thought to be the 'only' portrait painted during his lifetime, reports CNN.

August 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Kate Middleton is planning to ditch her family's Internet party supplies company for a career in photography, according to reports. It is being reported that in January Prince William's girlfriend will head to New York for two weeks to work with photographer Annie Leibovitz's muse Count Nikolai von Bismarck.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait by Adolf Hitler has fetched 10,000 pounds at an auction. The watercolour is thought to be one of the Nazi leader's earliest works.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - A rare portrait of William Shakespeare, believed to be the only surviving portrait, could actually be a painting of 17th century courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, claims an expert. The Jacobean painting from the family collection of art restorer Alec Cobbe was believed to be of the Shakespeare because it closely resembled the engraving in Shakespeare's First Folio.

May 4th, 2009 LONDON - A private portrait of the Duchess of Cornwall is going on public display this week. The annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters had obtained the painting from Prince Charles.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - A self-portrait of Adolf Hitler is to go under the hammer. The Nazi leader is hardly recognisable with no moustache in the picture which is thought to be the first he ever painted.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States has learnt that an old portrait of a moustached man, which was assumed to be a cheap imitation, is actually a genuine work by the 17th century Spanish master Velazquez. The portrait has a man in his 30s, dressed in black and posed in a three-quarter view.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - The restoration work on William Shakespeare's portrait, 100 years after his death, actually removed a superimposition that could have revealed an insight into the changing appearance of one of the world's greatest playwright. When art conservators joined hands to restore two rare portraits of Shakespeare, they thought they were removing paint daubed on the canvases more than 100 years after the Bard's death to reveal "authentic" portraits beneath.