Genres Photography

The Anacostia Project
Schlyer, Krista
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
This is a multi-year documentary project about the Anacostia River in Washington DC. Photography of this river, its wildlife and people, will be used to raise public consciousness about degradation and restoration of this historic watershed. Read More
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- Website: http://www.enviro-pic.org/Enviro-pic.org/Anacostia.html

Farmworker Women in Western New York
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2006
Although the majority of farmworkers in the US are men from Latin America, in recent years, more women have started to work on farms. For this project, I documented the lives of Mexican women working on farms in western New York. Read More
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- Website: http://www.sorrentinophotography.com

Los Cafetaleros: The Coffee Growers
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2008
Some of the world’s best coffee is grown in the remote mountains of southern Mexico. I traveled to villages in the mountains of Oaxaca and Puebla to document what life is like for coffee growers, who typically earn just $2 a day. Read More
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- Website: http://www.sorrentinophotography.com

Fair Trade Coffee
Sorrentino, Joseph
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Although coffee growers in the mountains of Oaxaca and Puebla in Mexico grow gourmet coffee that may sell for as much as $10 a pound, they typically earn about $2 a day. Fair Trade organizations pay farmers more for their coffee. I visited villages Read More
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- Website: http://www.sorrentinophotography.com

Good Luck with the Sun
Steinke, Krista
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
"Good Luck with the Sun" is a photographic project that focuses on the sun as the main subject in order to explore the complexity of the natural world and the physical and psychological impact of our greatest energy source. Read More
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- Website: http://www.kristasteinke.com

Mixteco/RVA
Stoddard, Christine
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Mixteco/RVA is a photographic book art project about the author's yearlong journey toward understanding linguistic injustice amongst Virginia's Latin American immigrants—Spanish-speaking and otherwise. Read More
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- Website: http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/mixtecorva.html

Displacement
Svalbonas, Krista
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
Displacement captures the traces of former WWII Displacement Camps in a series of laser cut pigment prints on paper. Read More
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- Website: http://www.kristasvalbonas.com

Bad Luck, Hot Rocks
Thompson, Ryan
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
'Bad Luck, Hot Rocks' is a series of photographs of stolen and confiscated petrified wood at the Petrified Forest National Park. 'Temporary Monument' (pictured) was built with returned and confiscated petrified wood at the Petrified Forest. Read More
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- Website: http://departmentofnaturalhistory.com

Killing Season Chicago
Wortendyke, Krista
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
Killing Season Chicago is a data driven installation comprised of photographs from 172 homicide sites in Chicago during the summer of 2010. This grant translated the large-scale art installation into an impactful, online representation of the work. Read More
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- Website: http://killingseasonchicago.com

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Würfel, Gesche
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
"At the Hands of Persons Unknown" explores how trees have been silent witnesses to the lynching of women in the U.S.. Given the renewed interest into the many ways women are oppressed by contemporary power structures, exploring the forgotten history of female lynching is both timely and relevant. Read More
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- Website: https://geschewuerfel.com