Genres Photography

[hyphen] Americans
Anderson-Staley, Keliy
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
This series of over 500 collodion tintypes portraits draws attention to the fact that images of ourselves exist within a history of images, and challenges photography's historical role in defining human difference. Read More
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- Website: http://www.andersonstaley.com

Just Like Us
Ann Rosen Photography
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
I developed a digital photography program for women living in shelters in Brooklyn and Rochester, NY. Mastering these skills empowered them as they struggled with homelessness and poverty. My photographic portraits of these women will be exhibited at Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY in 2020. Read More
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- Website: www.annrosen.com

On Nochaway Presentation
Anna Gage Norton
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
This work documents one example of forest restoration to promote biodiversity for a sustainable ecosystem. During a critical time as we reach a point of no return for climate change, I believe it is crucial to highlight efforts by citizens and illustrate that global change begins locally. Read More
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- Website: https://www.annagnorton.com

Aliza Augustine-Photographic Constructions
Augustine, Aliza
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Aliza Augustine’s series of photographs entitled Playing Grown Up and Is It Safe are narratives using miniature dolls. The Puffin Grant helped pay for printing and mounting photographs for a solo show at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, Read More
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- Website: http://www.alizaaugustine.com

E Pluribus Unum: Dinétah
Axle Projects
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
This free mobile portrait studio was in locations on and near the Navajo Nation for two weeks, creating over 800 photo portraits. One copy of each was distributed to each participant; another was pasted to the exterior of the gallery-studio. Read More
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- Website: https://www.axleart.com/epu-dinetah

In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte
Bacon, David
Year Grant Awarded: 2017
In the Fields of the North tells the story of the migration, grinding poverty yet vibrant culture of indigenous Mexican farmworkers on the Pacific Coast. Read More
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- Website: http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/

Intermarried
Ben-Zion, Yael
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
“Intermarried” explores the notion, and questions the implications, of intermarriage. I initiated the project by sending a message to my New York neighborhood’s online parent group inviting couples who define themselves as ‘mixed’ to participate. Read More
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- Website: http://www.yaelbenzion.com

Dryland Water (2014)
Benedict, Bremner
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Natural springs, a vital origin of life in the desert, dammed river reservoirs, and dry lakebeds exist as oases in the American Southwest’s deserts. My photographs combine B&W and color to emphasize the life and death the struggle through time of dim Read More
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- Website: http://www.bremnerbenedict.com

Gridlines
Benedict, Bremner
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Gridlines images are of electrical towers and lines stretching across open spaces in the American West. These photographs unsettle the viewer’s preconceptions of reality, by revealing patterns of beauty within a subject culturally regarded as ugly. Read More
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- Website: http://www.bremnerbenedict.com

New York is Beautiful (working title, 2014)
Brown-Osborne, Tyrone
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
New York is Beautiful examines the cultural, economic and ecological challenges facing small-scale farmers and homesteaders while also exploring comparative notions about race, class and identity. Read More