Genres Photography

Isolated Incidents

Roberts, Zach D

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

For over a decade I have been covering the far-right and its drift to its current form. My project will have visual journalistic coverage of the far-right and its spinoff affiliations and its effect on modern American politics with the goal of seeing a book in the fall of 2023. Read More

Two Sisters

Sablin, Nadia

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Two Sisters details the daily routines of elderly unmarried women, whose lives in a small Russian village have suffered little change over the decades. Read More

The Fruitful Wound: Photographs of Harlem Gardens

Santella, Dennis

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Since the summer of 2008 I have been mapping and photographing Community Gardens and lots in Harlem. Unlike buildings and storefronts, owned and constructed by others, the gardens are planned and constructed according to the whims of their members. Read More

The Anacostia Project

Schlyer, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

This is a multi-year documentary project about the Anacostia River in Washington DC. Photography of this river, its wildlife and people, will be used to raise public consciousness about degradation and restoration of this historic watershed. Read More

Graniceros of Amecameca, Mexico

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Graniceros are traditional Mexican shamans who perform ceremonies to control the weather, ceremonies that have remained essentially unchanged for hundreds of years. The ceremonies follow the agricultural cycle, taking place from February through November. Read More

Farmworker Women in Western New York

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

Although the majority of farmworkers in the US are men from Latin America, in recent years, more women have started to work on farms. For this project, I documented the lives of Mexican women working on farms in western New York. Read More

Los Cafetaleros: The Coffee Growers

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2008

Some of the world’s best coffee is grown in the remote mountains of southern Mexico. I traveled to villages in the mountains of Oaxaca and Puebla to document what life is like for coffee growers, who typically earn just $2 a day. Read More

Fair Trade Coffee

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Although coffee growers in the mountains of Oaxaca and Puebla in Mexico grow gourmet coffee that may sell for as much as $10 a pound, they typically earn about $2 a day. Fair Trade organizations pay farmers more for their coffee. I visited villages Read More

Las Patronas: A Lesson In Compassion

Sorrentino, Joseph

Year Grant Awarded: 2014

Las Patronas is a group of women in the tiny pueblo of La Patrona, Veracruz who hand out food and water to Central American asylum-seekers riding the freight trains they call La Bestia. Read More

Good Luck with the Sun

Steinke, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

"Good Luck with the Sun" is a photographic project that focuses on the sun as the main subject in order to explore the complexity of the natural world and the physical and psychological impact of our greatest energy source. Read More