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American Family – Michael Reichmann Endowment Grant Recipient
The story I wanted to tell coincided with the 10-year anniversary of my brother’s mass shooting and suicide. I thought it was a good opportunity for me to show that however cataclysmic the events of October 2006 were, my family wasn’t broken apart
These 3 Photojournalists Receive the $30,000 Catchlight Grant
On April 25th, photojournalists Sarah Blesener, Brian Frank and Tomas van Houtryve were named the Inaugural Catchlight Fellows. Each will receive a $30,000 grant to pursue their work with one of three Catchlight Media Partners: Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Marshall Project, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Meridith Kohut Wins 2017 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund Award
Venezuela-based photojournalist Meridith Kohut has won the sixth annual $20,000 Getty Images Chris Hondros Fund (CHF) Award for 2017. Non-profit news organization ProPublica has also won the first-ever Domestic Reporting Grant from the Chris Hondros Fund.
“Winning” Photography (At Any Cost)
I’ve never entered a photo contest. In part because I have a fear of not winning and confronting my own mediocrity. But mostly because I have never viewed photography as sport.
Meridith Kohut Wins Chris Hondros Award for Venezuela Coverage
Meridith Kohut, who has been documenting Venezuela’s downward spiral for The New York Times, has won the fifth annual Getty Images and Chris Hondros Fund Award. The award was created in honor of Mr. Hondros, who was killed in Libya in April 2011 along with the photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington.
New Chris Hondros Fund Photography Grant Goes to ProPublica
The new grant, worth $10,000, is dedicated to the defense of press freedom in the U.S. and will fund two to three stories produced by the non-profit news organization ProPublica.
CatchLight Fellowship: Here Are the Three Inaugural Fellows
Photographers Sarah Blesener, Brian Frank and Tomas van Houtryve are the winners of the first CatchLight Fellowship. Each will receive $30,000 to complete a project that promotes social good.
Michael Christopher Brown, Artist’s Book Infinity Award
The project for which he receives the ICP Infinity Award—Libyan Sugar (2016)— explores ethical distance and the iconography of warfare while using a phone camera. A book on the series was released in 2016 by Twin Palms Publishers; a lm and a mixed media installation will complete the project
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black, Documentary and Photojournalism Infinity Award
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition offers a complex portrayal of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention practices in the war on terror and the process of investigating them
The Luminous Endowment Grant Winners
We are delighted to announce the Winners of the first series of Luminous Endowment Grants for 2017.
Sinclair Wins $20K 2017 Anja Niedringhaus Award
Polish-Greek photographer Louisa Gouliamaki and American photographer Nicole Tung received honorable mentions
Sarah Blesener Wins the $20K Alexia Foundation Professional Grant
New York-based photographer Sarah Blesener has won the $20,000 Professional Grant from the Alexia Foundation for her series “Toy Soldiers,“ which documents youth patriotic clubs, education and summer camps in Russia.