Genres Photography

Soil Ecology

Eckel, Kelly

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

The soil is the skin of our planet which most people take for granted.  It is vital to understand the systems in our environment so that we don’t degrade them. My work is an expression of joy that engages me to move through the world in respectful manner. Read More

Revolution: An Unconscious (Deeper)

Eder, Melissa

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

Revolution: An Unconscious (Deeper) is a photo-based project that explores how early iconic media images from my childhood (growing up in the 1960s through 1970s) have shaped my present world view. I believe that these works question the very nature of freedom and censorship. Read More

We’re Going Home

Eder, Melissa

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

We’re Going Home is a photo-based project that explores the my father’s birthplace and childhood home on Lewis Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This project further investigates how fantasy, folklore and facts are intertwined to create a personal family narrative. Read More

Elijah Gowin

Elijah Gowin

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

A Puffin grant enabled photographer Elijah Gowin to exhibit a series of photographs at the Danville Museum of Fine Art and History in Danville, VA. His color photographs, taken in the late 1990’s, are part of a documentary series about Read More

Promised Land

Elmaleh, Lisa

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Promised Land is a series of landscapes along the US- Mexico border and portraits of those whose lives have been affected by US policies. Read More

Everglades

Elmaleh, Lisa

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

A photographic project documenting the landscape of the Everglades. Read More

Mapping Bird Migrations From radar data to silver gelatin artworks

Elrick, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Mapping bird migrations with data from radar weather stations is an essential tool for scientists who study bird behavior and conservation biology. Radar technology records movement in a similar way that silver-gelatin film records light. Read More

Retracing Audubon: Contemporary Landscapes

Elrick, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Inspired by Audubon’s widely collected and revered publication Episodes and pre-civil war writings, photographer Krista Elrick reexamines his epic journey. Her landscapes highlight the environmental changes that have occurred in the 200 years. 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

Portraiture Redressed

Forman, Frances

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Portraiture Redressed Read More