This is first part of a series about photographer couples, called “Two of a Kind.” Part one features Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber.
Tag: Jenn Ackerman
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Jenn Ackerman’s Photos of Frozen Minnesota
Frozen in Place and Time
Jenn Ackerman fought her fears of freezing winter temperatures when she moved to Minnesota and wound up photographing the state’s landscapes and people.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/frozen-in-place-and-time/
“The 4-by-5 allowed me to stare,” said Ms. Ackerman, who hauled her camera gear behind her on a plastic sled. “The whole process is a silent one anyway. You can’t really communicate with the people you’re photographing because you’re behind a big camera, covered with a drape.”
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NPPA Announces Six 2012 Short Grant Winners
Link: NPPA Announces Six 2012 Short Grant Winners
Six talented photojournalists have learned that they will be receiving $3,000 each to work on photography projects as winners of the 2012 NPPA Short Grants Competition. The winners are Jared Soares, Amanda Lucier, Paul Kitagaki Jr., Torsten Kjellstrand, Christopher Capozziello, and Jenn Ackerman.
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Jenn Ackerman. Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
Jenn Ackerman. Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons « Prison Photography:
A few months ago I wrote to Jenn Ackerman, praised her Trapped project and of course offered to promote it. I wanted to get at her stories behind the images – namely do an interview.
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Behind the Scenes: New, but Seasoned
Don’t let the term “summer intern” mislead you — if it brings to mind a novice in need of basic schooling. The three young photographers who are working at The Times this summer have already accumulated a lot of professional experience. And it shows in their work.
Work by Jenn Ackerman, Jessica Ebelhar, Justin Maxon.
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jenn ackerman – trapped [EPF Finalist]
burn magazine says:
The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go.
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NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2009 – Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing
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TRAPPED: The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the U.S. into the default mental health facilities. The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go. This project goes inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit at the Kentucky State Reformatory to see how a state is meeting the needs of this growing population. -
Jenn Ackerman » Trapped: Questions Answered.
Thank you all for your support, emails and comments. I have had received a lot of emails about my project, Trapped: Mental Illness in Prison, with similar questions so I decided to answer them here.
Check it out here.
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Strazzante, Ackerman win top honors at Southern
Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune and Jenn Ackerman, a graduate student at Ohio University, won top honors as 2008 Southern Photographer of the Year and 2008 Southern Student Photographer of the Year, respectively, this weekend. Strazzante also won Best of Show with his diptychs entitled “Echoes from the Past” pairing his coverage of a disappearing family farm shot earlier this decade and new homeowners on the same land shot in 2007. The winners were officially announced today by yours truly on the closing day of the Southern Short Course in News Photography in Charlotte, N.C.
Check it out here.
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Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
What started out as an assignment for school has produced a piece that has changed my life and hopefully will do the same for the people that view it. That was my hope when producing it at least. Ten weeks ago, we (my grad class at OU) were given the assignment to create a magazine including the brand, the mission statement and of course the content.
For this project, I decided to focus on the mental health crisis, specifically in prisons. This brought me to the CPTU inside the Kentucky State Reformatory.
Check it out here.