Living Exposed have a competition open for two scholarships to join a photography project on the Big Island from 21 to 25 January 2010. A broad range of participants are sought, from beginners looking to learn more about cameras and all their capabilities to professional photographers eager to apply their knowledge and expertise to something new. All applicants must submit five images and also provide a brief background of themselves and their objectives. The deadline for submission is 7 December 2009. Regular participants are required to pay a registration fee of $950, whereas those receiving the scholarships will be exempt from the registration fee and given a stipend of $500 to help offset travel expenses to and from Kona, Hawaii. To apply for a scholarship, check the the appropriate box on your Exposure application.

Website: Application for Exposure: Hawai’i

PDN PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo announced that more than 27,000 photographers and photo enthusiasts attended this year’s annual trade show. Aside from the 300 approximate companies displaying their latest technologies and services, PhotoPlus Expo’s expansive line-up of seminars and workshops proved to be a major attraction for attendees. Next year’s PDN Photo Plus Expo will be held from October 28-30, 2010 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.

Website: PDN Photo Plus Expo

Connected Worlds is an exhibition of panoramic images created by stitching together photos taken with a Nokia camera phone, opening on 3 December at London Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5. The photos were shot in 9 cities across the world by photographer Henry Reichhold. The exhibition is sponsored by BAA, Nokia and Skyline Whitespace. Connected Worlds will run for about six weeks, after which a new exhibition called Nokia N86 8mp Explore will take its place. Featuring photos from two very different cities, Mumbai and Dubai, Nokia N86 8mp Explore will show just what can be achieved with the new high resolution phones, the organisers say.

Website: Connected Worlds

London, Paris and New York are among the stops on the Hahnemühle Anniversary Collection’s 2010 world tour of international photo capitals. The tour is scheduled to begin in Sydney, Australia on 10 February, and will then travel to Beijing, Berlin, Toronto and Hong Kong. A special highlight of the tour will take place in Cologne, Germany at Photokina where the award winning images will be exhibited from 21 through 26 September.

Website: Hahnemühle

Canon U.S.A. will be hosting a Canon Live Learning seminar in the Seattle area in early December. Canon Live Learning is a new education programme targeted towards photographers who are interested in Canon’s popular line of EOS photographic products. Canon Live Learning seminars offer high-quality classes and workshops conducted by a number of the industry’s leading professional photographers, Canon’s Explorers of Light. CLL attendees will learn how to get the most out of their gear while also having the opportunity to try out Canon’s latest line of EOS products. Guests can register at: www.usa.canon.com/canonlivelearning. Click through / read on for the programme schedule.

The University of the Arts London has announced 28 Stories, a group show by graduates of the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.  The exhibition includes a poetic exploration of a maverick spaceship designer, a reflection on elderly love, a study of the first female Indian soldiers deployed to the Indian-Pakistan border in Kashmir, a daughter’s interpretation of her father’s escape from Hungary and the former eastern bloc, remarkable and dignified bodies of work about loved ones living with illness, and numerous other exceptional essays, pieces and stories, the organisers say. 28 Stories runs from 10-23 December and 4-15 January, Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm.

The Port of New Orleans will host an exhibit “The End of the Great River: Photographs of the Lower Mississippi River Delta” on December 1st through 18th featuring the work of New Orleans-based photographer Matthew White. The showing of White’s work will consist of fine art landscape images of the Mississippi River Delta, from Port Sulphur in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana south to the end of the three passes that drain the river into the Gulf of Mexico: Pass a Loutre; South Pass and Southwest Pass Photography for the project began in the spring of 2000, shot on both black and white film and in colour digital and has continued to the present day. In this collection, White has shot nearly every named location in lower Plaquemines Parish and has compiled a sizable collection of documentary-style often contemplative photographs of the most remote areas of the parish. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in the lobby of the administrative building at the Port of New Orleans.

A selling exhibition of David Bailey’s iconic images of the 1960s will be hosted by Bonhams in New Bond Street. David Bailey’s name is an integral part of the 1960s, and he captured images which remain a pictorial reminder of all that was best about it. The `Pure Sixties. Pure Bailey.’ exhibition will be on view at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, from 7th March – 7th April, 2010.

Crash Taylor, recently voted one of the UK’s top ten winter wedding photographers by Professional Photographer magazine, will return to Calumet Nottingham for a wedding photography seminar. Crash is known for his use of location, light, artistic eye and unobtrusive style. The six-hour seminar will take place on Friday 21 May 2010, and is limited to 35 delegates. The cost is £95. To book your place, call 0115 9586888 and refer to the seminar code ZSMNOT0047.

Somerset-based professional photographers Anita Corbin and John O’Grady have photographed eleven British scientists, and the portraits are now on display in London, for the first time ever. Anita Corbin of Corbin O’Grady Studio in Wellington, explains, “The colour portraits were taken in 1989 for the series ‘Science in Profile’ commissioned by The British Council. The pictures were taken by my partner John O’Grady and me over a three month period. There were 24 in total and the resulting set of portraits was exhibited in the early nineties all over the world but never in Britain. The large colour prints will form part of the photographic archive of significant Britons at The National Portrait Gallery and are currently on display at the Gallery.”  The display, entitled “Science in Focus” runs until 17 January 2010.

Website: National Portrait Gallery

Red Bull Reporter is currently looking for a photographer to report from the Red Bull Manny Mania Final 2009 Skateboarding event this November. Taking place in Ireland, the event will have a jam session format to reflect the way skateboarding happens naturally and also to encourage the best tricks. If you think you’ve got what it takes to take part in this assignment, head to the website below.

Website: Red Bull Manny Mania Final 2009

A giant pigeon “landed” on the grass beside London’s City Hall this morning. The life-like sculpture, which was specially commissioned to mark the UK launch of Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-ZX1 compact camera with an 8x optical zoom, graphically brought to life one of London’s most iconic and hotly debated creatures, Panasonic says. A team of five artists spent two months constructing the 1.52 metre high and 3.2 metre wide fibre glass structure which was lifted into place in Potters Fields, central London at 8am before moving further along the banks of the Thames for a national photo call in front of The Houses of Parliament. The giant pigeon is one of a series of objects which have been magnified and brought to life by Panasonic to illustrate the 8x optical zoom lens of the new, ultra-compact Lumix DMC-ZX1. Users are invited to submit their own photographs which showcase the fun that can be had with perspective for their chance to win a trip to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games by visiting the website below.

Website: Panasonic 8xLife

Landscape and travel photographer David Noton has announced the next location in his series of inspirational evening events – the ‘Chasing the Light’ Road Shows. The event will take place at the Pennine Lecture Theatre, City Campus, Sheffield Hallam University on Thursday 25th February, with take-off scheduled for 8.00pm. “The Chasing the Light Road Shows will take guests on a global adventure, using the latest high definition projection and satellite navigation to whisk them around the world,” Noton says. “Of course we’ll be talking photography and travel, but the Chasing the Light Road Shows will be much more than that.” Tickets are priced at £16.50. To book your place, visit the website below.

Website: David Noton

The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) continues The Question of Celebrity, a series of events and programmes inspired by the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008. The events include an illustrated panel discussion entitled “Facing the Lens, Seeing the Light: Observations on Portrait Photography”, which will explore the photographic portrait, its significance through the history of photography and its enduring fascination; a Sony Family Portrait Weekend on 14-15 November; and a series of film screenings.

Website: Royal Ontario Museum

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2010, the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) announces today that registration is now open for WPPI 2010, billed as the largest annual expo and conference in the world for professional photographers. All WPPI 2010 classes, events and trade show will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, from March 4-11, 2010. Registrations are accepted via the website below.

Website: WPPI 2010

The Idea Generation Gallery will host a retrospective of photojournalist Nat Finkelstein from 20 January - 14 February 2010. This retrospective brings together Finkelstein’s diverse portfolio of work achieved across five decades: from the Factory scenes, to the civil rights and anti-war protests of mid-60s America, to his continuing exploration of the subcultures of 80s and 90s New York; Nat’s photographs not only depict their subjects and scenes, but also provide a visual record of the life and times of the photographer himself, the organisers say. The exhibition will be open 12-6pm Monday to Friday, and 12-5pm Saturday and Sunday. Entry is free. The Idea Generation Gallery is located at 11 Chance Street, London.

FPS Fest is a film screening event that explores the transition from still photography to motion. Presented by Dripbook, Resource Magazine, and ROOT Capture, FPS Fest will take place pn 17 November in Root Brooklyn, 131 North 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211. As the organisers put it, the event “provides information and stimulation about technology, techniques, and strategies to take on the future of a changing industry”. The entry fee is $5.

Website: FPS Fest

In conjunction with his upcoming exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, photographer Roger Ballen will present a free public lecture at the School of Visual Arts on Monday, November 9 at 7pm. Ballen’s black and white series Boarding House, up at Gagosian November 5 - December 23, explores a three-story warehouse hidden among the gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa and inhabited by disenfranchised, impoverished families and fugitives. Ballen will speak with editor and publisher Darius Himes, who has contributed to Aperture, Blind Spot, Bookforum, BOMB, PDN and American Photo. Click through / read on for the details of this event.

The Annenberg Foundation has announced the third exhibit in the Annenberg Space for Photography, entitled “SPORT: IOOSS & LEIFER”. This exhibit will feature the work of Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer, two of the world’s most preeminent sports photographers. Spanning the careers of both men, over 80 photographic prints will be seen in the exhibit which includes iconic images such as Muhammed Ali’s victory over Sonny Liston (by Neil Leifer, 25 May 1965, see above) and Michael Jordan in full glory. “SPORT: IOOSS & LEIFER” will open to the public on November 12, 2009 and run through March 7, 2010.

Artloco Gallery is looking for amateur and professional photographers resident within the South East of England to submit work for a photography exhibition. Artloco is a new community gallery opening in Ticehurst, East Sussex in December 2009. Their first exhibition will focus on photography by local photographers. If interested, send an email to Sallie Court’s address, [email protected] or visit her website.

Website: Artloco