By Holly Stuart Hughes
An image from Subotzy's project of a Sunday church service, Beaufort West Prison in South Africa, 2006.
South African photographer
Mikhail Subotsky is the winner of
the 2008 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography." The
$30,000 grant will support his project, "Crime, Punishment and
Security in Post-Apartheid South Africa." The grant was announced
at a ceremony October 22 in New York.
Subotsky has previously explored the South African penal system in
his book, Beaufort West, which was published by Chris Boot this
fall. Beaufort West is a small and blighted town in South Africa
dominated by its prison.
The grant caps a year of successes for Subotzky, who was made a
nominee of Magnum in 2007. He was awarded the Infinity Award for
Young Photography by the International Center of Photography in
May. He is also one of two photographers featured in the exhibition
"New Photography 2008," now on view at New York's Museum of Modern
Art. He was also selected for
PDN's
30 this year.
Two other fellowships, with prizes of $2,500 each, were also
awarded to Stephanie Sinclair of the United States for her project
on child marriage around the world, and to Lu Guang of China, for
his project on that country's pollution.
Other finalists for the grant were
Alixandra Fazzina for her
project "A Million Shillings";
Danny Wilcox Frazier for
"Americans Forgotten";
Alberto Giuliani for "Married to the
Mob";
Lori Grinker for "Iraq: Scars and Exile";
Jon
Lowenstein for "Shadow Lives USA";
Carlos Javier Ortiz
for "The Side of Hope: Beauty Within Tragedy of Urban Life";
Lizzie Sadin for "Women and Children for Sale" and
Anderson Schneider, "The Loudest Whisper: Scars of Leprosy
in Brazil."
The W. Eugene Smith Fund reports that a record 193 proposals were
submitted for this year's grant.
The jury for this year's Smith grants was
Marcel Saba, the
president of Redux Pictures and a trustee of the W. Eugene Smith
Fund;
Nailya Alexander, director of the Nailya Alexander
gallery in New York; and
Charles Traub, chairperson of the
Masters program in photography at New York's School of Visual Arts.
Also awarded on Thursday was the Howard Chapnick Grant for the
Advancement of Photojournalism. The $5,000 grant was awarded to
Ren Yue, a photographer and professor of photojournalism at
Renmin University in Beijing to support a project titled “New
Topographics: Beijing’s Contemporary Urban Landscapes.” The project
began last year when Yue chose seven photographers to document
changes wrought by the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The
work is scheduled to be completed at the end of this year, when it
will be turned into an exhibition and a multimedia presentation.
The judges for the Chapnick Grant were
Marcel Saba;
photojournalist
Donna Ferrato;
Robert Pledge,
president of the W. Eugene Smith Fund, and also of Contact Press
Images;
Aaron Schindler, managing director of Wealth
Advisory Group LLC; and
Yukiko Launois, photo editor and
coordinator of the Howard Chapnick Grant.
Since 1980, the W. Eugene Smith Fund has awarded a grant to support
photojournalists who demonstrate a deep commitment to humanistic
documentary photography. This year's grants were supported in part
by contributions from Open Society Institute, The Mona Fund, Getty
Images and Digital Railroad.
Information on how to apply for the W. Eugene Smith grant or the
Howard Chapnick Grant can be found at the
W. Eugene Smith
Memorial Fund web site.
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Oct 28, 2008
By Holly Stuart Hughes
An image from Subotzy's project of a Sunday church service, Beaufort West Prison in South Africa, 2006.
South African photographer
Mikhail Subotsky is the winner of the 2008 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography." The $30,000 grant will support his project, "Crime, Punishment and Security in Post-Apartheid South Africa." The grant was announced at a ceremony October 22 in New York.
Subotsky has previously explored the South African penal system in his book, Beaufort West, which was published by Chris Boot this fall. Beaufort West is a small and blighted town in South Africa dominated by its prison.
The grant caps a year of successes for Subotzky, who was made a nominee of Magnum in 2007. He was awarded the Infinity Award for Young Photography by the International Center of Photography in May. He is also one of two photographers featured in the exhibition "New Photography 2008," now on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He was also selected for
PDN's 30 this year.
Two other fellowships, with prizes of $2,500 each, were also awarded to Stephanie Sinclair of the United States for her project on child marriage around the world, and to Lu Guang of China, for his project on that country's pollution.
Other finalists for the grant were
Alixandra Fazzina for her project "A Million Shillings";
Danny Wilcox Frazier for "Americans Forgotten";
Alberto Giuliani for "Married to the Mob";
Lori Grinker for "Iraq: Scars and Exile";
Jon Lowenstein for "Shadow Lives USA";
Carlos Javier Ortiz for "The Side of Hope: Beauty Within Tragedy of Urban Life";
Lizzie Sadin for "Women and Children for Sale" and
Anderson Schneider, "The Loudest Whisper: Scars of Leprosy in Brazil."
The W. Eugene Smith Fund reports that a record 193 proposals were submitted for this year's grant.
The jury for this year's Smith grants was
Marcel Saba, the president of Redux Pictures and a trustee of the W. Eugene Smith Fund;
Nailya Alexander, director of the Nailya Alexander gallery in New York; and
Charles Traub, chairperson of the Masters program in photography at New York's School of Visual Arts.
Also awarded on Thursday was the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism. The $5,000 grant was awarded to
Ren Yue, a photographer and professor of photojournalism at Renmin University in Beijing to support a project titled “New Topographics: Beijing’s Contemporary Urban Landscapes.” The project began last year when Yue chose seven photographers to document changes wrought by the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The work is scheduled to be completed at the end of this year, when it will be turned into an exhibition and a multimedia presentation.
The judges for the Chapnick Grant were
Marcel Saba; photojournalist
Donna Ferrato;
Robert Pledge, president of the W. Eugene Smith Fund, and also of Contact Press Images;
Aaron Schindler, managing director of Wealth Advisory Group LLC; and
Yukiko Launois, photo editor and coordinator of the Howard Chapnick Grant.
Since 1980, the W. Eugene Smith Fund has awarded a grant to support photojournalists who demonstrate a deep commitment to humanistic documentary photography. This year's grants were supported in part by contributions from Open Society Institute, The Mona Fund, Getty Images and Digital Railroad.
Information on how to apply for the W. Eugene Smith grant or the Howard Chapnick Grant can be found at the
W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund web site.
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Stephen Dupont Wins 2007 W. Eugene Smith Grant"
Paolo Pellegrin Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant
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