Genres Photography

Portrait of a Woman

Cox, Rachel

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

My photographic project examines the personal and cultural stigmas associated with female infertility while also raising awareness for the millions of people who seek to build their families though assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Read More

Envision: Community Portrait Day

First Exposures

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

First Exposures' Envision brought together the Women's Building, de Young Museum, and the Center for Cultural Power for a day of community portraits made by our mentee photographers. In just 4 hours, First Exposures youth photographed and gifted framed portraits to over 400 people— an absolute feat! Read More

Photography After Photography (A Reckoning)

Gould, Meggan

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

This project is equal parts textbook, cookbook, and manifesto. Using both plant-based photographs and text, I explore an alternative material future for the photographic medium. Read More

Censored Landscapes

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Censored Landscapes is a photograph and text project by Isabella La Rocca González that explores the hidden impacts of farming animals. Read More

Centroid Towns: Appalachian Foothills

Larson, Nate

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Centroid Towns is an anthology documentary project chronicling the cities that have been the mean center of population of the US. In the fall of 2022, I traveled to Hillsboro, Ohio, the centroid for the 1870 census, to spend time with land conservation groups and document the changing landscape. Read More

the beautiful

Rasmussen, Elise

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

“the beautiful” explores the role of photography in contributing to mythologies and ideologies surrounding notions of American West, addressing the grief embedded within the medium as depictions of the landscape are more prescient and problematic than ever in this time of climate change. Read More

Rescuing the Chinampería

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

My project documented efforts of farmers and nonprofits to save the chinampería, an ancient agricultural area in southern Mexico City, specifically in San Gregorio Atlapulco. Read More

IDENTITIES

Takagi, Hidemi

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

IDENTITIES is a photography installation project (Portraits + Interview) portraying biracial/multiracial subjects. I seek to envision deep roots and explore issues of mixed-race identities as they manifest in neighborhoods in New York, other cities, that contain diverse racial intersections. Read More