Category: Contests

Judging by the superb photographs in this exhibition — which come from photographers in 24 countries around the world— there is no doubt that the  medium of photography is alive and well and thriving as a vital form of art in the 21st century.

Almost 1500 photographers applied for the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grants this year presented by the Aaron Siskind Foundation, honoring the legacy of the legendary photographer best known for pioneering lens-based modernist abstraction.

When Diana Markosian was 7, she would stand outside her strange new home in Southern California and look toward the sky as each airplane passed overhead, wondering if her father would be on that plane. Or the next one.