It was open to entrants from outside the United States for the first time.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/08/leica-announces-the-2023-women-foto-project-award-winners/
Leica has announced the winners of its fourth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award. The announcement arrives on International Women’s Day, an annual global holiday celebrating the wide-ranging achievements of women.
The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22.
via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/the-43rd-w-eugene-smith-grant-awarded-to-maxim-dondyuk/
The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was awarded to Maxim Dondyuk for his project Ukraine 2014/22, which looks at the country’s battle for independence. Mary F. Calvert received the Smith Fellowship, with special awards going to Shirley Abrahamm and Amit Madeshiya, along with Ta Mwe.
Mary Calvert has made it her mission to document the traumas encountered by female veterans, a group that is the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/homeless-veterans-surviving-rape-and-indifference/
Mary Calvert has deep ties to the military: Her grandfather was John F. Kennedy’s commander during his famed service on PT-109, and her parents met in the Army during the Korean War. For the last 19 years, Ms. Calvert has taught a workshop for military photographers at Fort Meade.
Mary F. Calvert, Maggie Steber and Zoe Strauss are among the 12 photographers who have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2017, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 7. The Fellowships provide grants of undisclosed amounts to sup
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/04/12-photographers-win-2017-guggenheim-fellowships.html
Mary F. Calvert, Maggie Steber and Zoe Strauss are among the 12 photographers who have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2017
Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert on the grave imperative to report on sexual assault in the U.S. military
via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/it-s-sad-to-think-that-this-could-become-my-life-s-work-650048b9581c#.98lxh2bb9
Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert on the grave imperative to report on sexual assault in the U.S. military
We used to call this type of work “women’s Issues.” I prefer to think of them as our issues. You cannot marginalize half the world’s population without it being a problem for all of us. The only difference between “us” and “them” is that they were born there and we were born here. I became a photojournalist so I could tell the stories of those with no voice and to provide a mirror for society to examine itself. Everyone should know what is going on in his or her world and it is my job to make them care.
Photographer Mary F. Calvert has won the Alexia Foundation’s 2014 Women’s Initiative Grant to fund her project called “Missing in Action: Homeless Female Veterans,” the foundation announced this morning. Calvert was a finalist for the $25,000 grant last y
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/09/mary-f-calvert-wins-25000-womens-initiative-grant.html
Andrei Stenin, 33, a photographer with the Russian state agency RIA Novosti
The 2011 Short Grants winners are Victor J. Blue, Gabriela Bulisova, Mary F. Calvert, Matt Eich, and Mark Ovaska.
