Photographer of the Year: Monica Denevan Today we share the winners of the prestigious photo competition, All About Photo Awards 2020, The Mind’s Eye, organized by All About Photo. A panel of 7 expert jurors including Elizabeth Avedon (Photography book an
Catherine Opie, Ron Jude, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Barbara Davidson are among the 12 photographers named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows, according to an announcement from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships provide grants of undisclosed amounts to support projects by artists, scholars, scientists and writers. The foundation selected 168 fellows this year from a pool of more than 3,000 applicants. This year’s fellows in photography are:
Jennifer Garza-Cuen got her start shooting slot champions, tourists and divorce parties at the motel casinos down route 40 in Reno, Nevada. Later she became a cocktail waitress at the Nugget, but perpetual dissatisfaction drove her on the road which landed her in Providence where she recently completed her MFA in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design
“As a member of a society that views ideas of place as a central defining characteristic, second only to name and followed closely by profession, I have embarked on an exploration aimed at understanding the mythologies of place and subjective place-making.” – Jennifer Garza-Cuen, writing about Reno, Nevada
