Photographic awards

The Positive Lives photographers have won numerous prestigious awards – including for photographic commissions with Positive Lives.

Awards include: the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography; the Oscar Barnack Award; the Ian Parry Award; the David Hodge Prize and a commendation in the John Kobal Book Awards; Nikon News Photographer and Photo Essay of the Year awards, the Mother Jones/Fifty Crows Grant for social documentary photography; World Press Masterclass scholarships; the Agfa Young Photojournalist of the Year as well as prizes in the UNESCO Documentary Awards; the World Press Photo Awards; Pictures of the Year Awards (POY) and from The Royal Photographic Society and UNICEF – also The Queen's Birthday Honours and the Amnesty International Media Awards for Photojournalism.

Most recently - at the ‘World Press Photo of the Year Awards’ 2009 Pep Bonet won second prize within the 'PORTRAITS/Stories' section for his series “Portraits: Forced Identity: transsexual sex workers, Honduras” commissioned by Positive Lives with Ayuda en Acción. The Awards exhibition is currently on tour – details here