Getty Images photographers Jerome Sessini and Alvaro Ybarra Zavala have been nominated for the prestigious Visa d’Or awards. Sessini is one of five finalists in the news category, for his work on Libya, while Zavala has been nominated for his work on the conflict in Colombia. Furthermore, Getty Images will be announcing the winners of its 2011 Grants for Editorial Photography at the Visa Pour L’Image festival, which aims to showcase and support powerful and inspiring photojournalism projects. The winners will be announced on stage during the evening screening on Thursday 1 September, with the winning recipients showcasing their chosen projects on Friday, 2 September from 3 - 4pm.

The Association of Photographers (AOP) has announced a retrospective celebrating the exceptional work by the industry’s elite over the past 27 years. On the opening night of the exhibition (27 July) a raffle will be held, giving three lucky visitors a chance to win a print from the exhibition. The retrospective, which highlights the changes seen in the photographic industry since the eighties, also marks the closure of the AOP Gallery at Leonard Street. AOP will continue to curate exhibitions, the first of which will be the 28th Photographers Awards Exhibition, which will open at the end of September at Ambika P3, University of Westminster.

World famous travel and landscape photographer David Noton will be headlining this year’s Masters of Vision Exhibition at Southwell Minster. As part of this biennial celebration of photography, David’s ‘Chasing the Light’ show will showcase in the Minster on Saturday 30th July (8.30pm start). The show includes David’s latest unpublished photographs, video clips from shoots around the world and the stories behind some of his most iconic images. Tickets for the ‘Chasing the Light’ show are priced at £15. The Masters of Vision Exhibition itself, which introduces the work of several emerging British landscape photographers, opens to the public on 30 July 2011 and runs until the end of August. Entry to the exhibition is free.

Photographer Tim Hans presents his new exhibition Camden Town Skateboarders at East London’s leading gallery, theprintspace. “Camden Town Skateboarders features local athletes and is the first exhibit of an on-going global project in which Hans brings a fresh and atypical style of photography to the skateboarding world through stripped-down portraits in place of flashy action shots,” the organisers aay. The opening reception is 4th August, 7-9:30pm at theprintspace gallery on 74 Kingsland Road, and the exhibition will run until 31st August 31st. Admission is free.

2011 marks the fourth year of Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, The Photographers’ Gallery’s annual showcase of graduate and postgraduate photography. Twenty-one artists, who completed their studies in the past year, have been selected by a panel of photography experts. The featured artists have graduated from courses across the UK, including The Glasgow School of Art, University of Wales, Newport and University of the Arts London. Note that this year, Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed takes place online while The Photographers’ Gallery undergoes extensive redevelopment.

X-Rite has announced a number of free webinars for the month of July. There are four topics including “Raw Colour Power with Adobe Lightroom and the ColorChecker Passport”, “David Saffir’s End-to-End Workflow for Creative Photographers”, “Creative Fusion: Stylistic Photographic Images with Brian Matiash” and “Beyond Monitor Calibration - Get Prints That Match Your Display!” Click through / read on for webinar dates and times.

Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) judges Nick Meers and Chris Coe are leading a luxury Photo Iconic photography holiday in Costa Rica from April 4th – 13 th, 2012. The tour will be guided by an experienced Costa Rican naturalist, with photographic tuition provided by Chris and Nick. Highlights of the trip, which is run in conjunction with Strabo Photo Tours, include a spectacular cone-shaped volcano, rising out of the flat San Carlos Plains, La Fortuna Waterfall, Ecocentro Danaus Biological Reserve, Monteverde Cloud Forest, Monteverde Hummingbird Garden and Butterfly Farm and Manuel Antonio National Park. The trip costs $4,295 (approx. £2,650) to include all accommodation, meals, photo tuition and park entrances, but excluding international flights. For further information or to book a place, visit the website below.

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century  is a major photography exhibition hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Featuring works by both internationally acclaimed photography icons such as Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy and Munkácsi - all of whom became world famous after leaving their homeland to seek their fortune abroad - and masters such as Rudolf Balogh, Károly Escher and József Pécsi, who stayed at home to pursue careers in Hungary; the exhibition showcases over 200 black-and-white prints that “show how these world renowned photographers were at the forefront of stylistic developments and reveal their achievements in the context of the rich photographic tradition” of their country. Tickets cost £9 and are available daily at the Royal Academy. Advance bookings (phone nr. 0844 209 0051). The exhibition runs until 2 October 2011, and is open to the public every day from 10am to 6pm

Travelshooters have just announced their new Goa, Kerala & the Deccan Photography Tour. The tour “takes in some of the most iconic visual opportunities of Southern India: from the famous Portuguese colonial influences of Goa all the way to the balmy backwaters of Kerala,” says Bruce Stidston of Travelshooters.com. “Along the way, clients get to experience and shoot the lost civilisations of the Deccan plateau, the British colonial resorts of the Nilgiri hills (including one of the most remarkable steam-train journeys in the world) and even a short wildlife exploration.” The photo holiday runs for 15 days from 19 November 2011, the prime time of year to visit the region. The cost is €3,650 per person, excluding international flights. For more information, visit the website below.

Website: Travelshooters - Goa, Kerala & the Deccan 2011

The Canon Pro Solutions Show will be returning again on 25th and 26th October 2011 in London. Held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, the public show is aimed at video, broadcast and still imaging professionals. Entrance to the show will be free for all those who pre-register online.

Afghanistan is a new exhibition of film-based photographs by Ruvan Wijesooriya. The photos were shot over two weeks in April 2011 while on varying assignments for Roots of Peace and in transit between Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif and Bamiyan. The pictures - on view from today through 30th June at Rogue 58, 555 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York - reveal details of Afghan life, including women in private places, landscapes, children at school, men at work, and more.

A new exhibition of Norman Parkinson’s images of childhood, ‘Age of Innocence’, is currently on show at Dimbola Lodge, Isle of Wight. Running until 3rd July, the exhibition offers a fresh insight into his development as an artist and his eclectic choice of subjects. In her introduction to the catalogue, Fay Weldon writes: “Parkinson, like his confrères Bailey, Duffy and Donovan, is mostly known for his spectacular fashion photography, but as with these other great photographers, ‘the fashion shoot’ was only a part of their work. That was what earned them money: not necessarily what most satisfied the keen aesthetic eye of the photographer. In this particular collection of images, all relating one way or another to childhood, Parkinson combines the techniques of photojournalism – catch the moment as it flies – à la Cartier Bresson and Lartigue, with an Irving Penn-like sense of formality.”

Light & Land has announced a one-day workshop to be held on location in the Cotswold lavender fields with landscape masters Charlie Waite and Antony Spencer. The company has been granted special permission to shoot at Snowshill, right in the heart of the Cotswolds. The workshop will run from 11am, right through to sunset, on 5 July 2011 – in order to capture the best of the day’s light. The cost of attendance is £149, which includes hands-on tuition, teas, coffees and light lunch. You can find more information at the website below.

As part of global celebrations for Day of the African Child, Sony Europe has today unveiled photographs from the sixth Sony Eye-See initiative, an annual workshop held in partnership with UNICEF, giving vulnerable African children the opportunity to learn about photography and tell their stories through images. UNICEF photographer Giacomo Pirozzi led the group in an intensive week-long workshop, equipping them with a Sony digital camera and teaching them the core photography techniques necessary to go out and shoot the pictures. Click through / scroll down for an image gallery.

David Noton will be running a workshop in the Yorkshire Dales this autumn, whose participants will be invited to submit an image into a competition, with the winner receiving a Giottos Carbon Fibre 8261B MTL tripod with a MH5001 3-way head. Taking place from 7th - 9th October, the course will comprise a 2-night stay at High Trenhouse near Malham with 2 full days of photographic tuition, excursions in the Yorkshire Dales, tutorials and demonstrations. The cost of attendance is £765. To book your place, visit the website below.

Light & Land has launched a luxury photographic tour to the Isle of Sark. Hosted by tour leaders Phil Malpas and Clive Minnitt the trip is based at the sumptuously luxurious Stocks Hotel, which is conveniently located in the centre of the Island. The aim of this workshop will be to help guests create a body of work suitable for a self published artist’s book. The tour, which will run in April 2012, is also timed to coincide with the abundance of wildflowers present on the island in early spring. Priced at £1,950 the workshop is limited to 14 participants. For more information, visit the website below.

Opening tomorrow at the Wilmotte Gallery at Lichfield Studios, Stornoway is a new exhibition featuring enigmatic black-and-white triptych photographs by Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith. Chronicling a jounrey through Scotland, the images are “carefully crafted, framing mountains, waterways, trees and decaying relics to depict a mystical and vacant landscape, imbued with a profound sense of stillness and solitude,” the organisers say Running until 22nd July, the exhibition is hosted by Lichfield Studios, 133 Oxford Gardens, London, W10 6NE.

The first ever full-career retrospective of the legendary British photographer Brian Duffy will open July 8th at Idea Generation Gallery. Together with Terence Donovan and David Bailey, Duffy is recognised as one of the innovators of “documentary” fashion photography, a style that revolutionised the fashion industry. He produced an extraordinary body of work but destroyed most of his negatives and transparencies in 1979. “Featuring more than 160 images painstakingly rediscovered by Duffy’s son after years of searching through archives and publications around the world, this exhibition has truly risen from the ashes,” the organisers say. Running until 28th August, the Duffy exhibition is presented by Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB. Admission is free.

Peter Steedman’s new exhibition at Lauderdale House encompasses a wide variety of themes ranging from landscapes to textures, plant portraits to old buildings. Lauderdale House is located in Waterlow Park on Highgate Hill in north London. The exhibition runs until 12th June, and is open daily from 11.00am to 4.00pm Tuesday to Friday, and midday to 5.00pm on Sunday. Admission is free.

X-Rite has announced a number of free webinars for the month of June. On the 9th, you can attend the Raw Colour Power webinar (at 11am and 1pm EDT). On the 15fh, X-Rite will be presenting a Wildlife and Nature Photography webinar featuring photographer Juan Pons, who will share some of his best techniques and tips for making exciting nature and wildlife photographs (at noon and 3pm EDT). On the 23rd, X-Rite and onOne Software invites you to take control of your colour and unleash your creativity with Brian Matiash (3pm EDT). Finally, on 29th June, you can learn how to put a colour managed workflow in place from image capture through printer output including creating custom profiles and learning how to use them correctly to produce prints that match a display every time (11am and 1pm EDT). To learn more, visit the website below.