Genres Photography

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 Female Mariners Project (2014)

LeJeune, Margaret

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Female Mariners Project explores the lives and work of women in the maritime industries including live aboard sailors and cruisers. Read More

Goddess On Earth: Women of Essex County, A Multi-Media Installation by Lisa Levart

Luna Stage

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Award winning photographer Lisa Levart's ongoing multi-media installation that celebrates the strength and self-esteem of contemporary women and girls by photographing them portraying ancient archetypes and sacred myths. Read More

Birders

Lynn Cazabon

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Birders is an ongoing series of photographs focused on birdwatchers living in large urban centers. My interest is in capturing the complex relationship between people and wildlife, as well as the social ecosystem of the activity of birdwatching itself. Read More

With Our Eyes Closed

Mark Ludak

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

In 2015, I photographed the memorial site for the nine parishioners murdered by Dylan Roof at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among those killed was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney; three victims survived. One of those victims, Felicia Sanders said in a news Read More

Do you know who I am?

McCracken, Jr, James

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Do you know who I am? is a photo-based project that includes installation, sculpture, video, printmaking, and found objects to create a narrative that reframes his experiences with systems of control and opens new possibilities of reform. Read More

Picturing Grace, Florida at First Light

McEachern, Joel B.

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The work of the project is to literally picture the grace of this once stunningly beautiful land and to remind one and all that, despite ourselves, the face of Florida's last wild and open places still smiles. Read More

Slow Drift

McKone, Jonna

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Slow Drift is a lyrical series of photographs that explores concepts of home, land, boundaries, and afterlives. Former tobacco farms in Maryland provided the starting point. I followed the reverberations of these sites on communities, topsoil, waterways, ownership, and development. Read More

Fracking Photographs

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2018

I illustrate the many dangers associated with the entire fracking production process in my staged photographs, telling big stories with little figures. These vintage figurines are now living in an industrial nightmare just like many Americans. They, are us. BAN FRACKING NOW! Read More