Art prize first for photographer
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Malick Sidibe becomes the first photographer to win the Venice Biennale's lifetime achievement award.
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A photo of a Rwandan woman who was raped during the 1994 genocide wins the UK portrait prize.
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Reader Senguttuvan S sends us a photograph.
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German-born artist Tomma Abts on Monday became the first woman painter to land the Turner Prize in the 22-year history of one of the art world's most controversial awards.
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British photographer Tim Hetherington has won the prestigious World Press Photo Award for 2007 with a picture of an exhausted US soldier inside a bunker in Afghanistan, organisers said Friday.
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Here's an Oscar fact to  focus on: Roger Deakins is the first director of photography to  receive two nominations in the same year since 1971.
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Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has  built a career out of testing the limits of public taste and  free expression.
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"Mutants," a non-fiction work that casts a sympathetic eye on genetics and physical deformity, has won the Guardian's First Book award, the first science book to claim the prize.
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Two photographers working for Agence France-Presse in Iraq and the West Bank won top prizes at France's 11th annual Bayeux awards for war correspondents.
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Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has built a career out of testing the limits of public taste and free expression.
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An exhibition of the work of photographer Richard Avedon bursts into color to celebrate his collaboration with fashion design house Versace as his renowned black-and-white portraits are complemented by commercial work.
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Indian photographer Arko Datta wins the World Press Photo award for 2004 with a tsunami picture.
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A digital recreation of Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden's former home in Afghanistan was among nominations for Britain's most prestigious -- and controversial -- art award, which opened Wednesday.
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Michel du Cille, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime editor and photographer at The Washington Post, has been named assistant managing editor for photography, it was announced yesterday.
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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.- The Turner Prize 2004 has been awarded to Jeremy Deller, it was announced at Tate Britain this evening. The Â£25,000 prize, sponsored for the first time in a three-year partnership
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Excellent Art wins the St James's Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot.