W. Eugene Smith Grant Awarded to Krisanne Johnson

Love and Pain in Swaziland

Krisanne Johnson received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography on Wednesday for her project “I Love You Real Fast,” which documents coming of age of women in Swaziland.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/love-and-pain-in-swaziland/

Krisanne Johnson, 34, has been documenting the coming of age of females in the country — where one in two women are infected with H.I.V./AIDS — since 2006. On Wednesday evening, she received the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in recognition of her project.