I always think that a photographer’s best work comes from worlds we already know and can bring deep thinking and perspective to. Photographer Susan Rosenberg Jones has a legacy of creating such projects as she considers the humanity that surrounds her. With her project, Building 1, she photographed her neighbors in the apartment building she […]
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The Center Awards: Director’s Choice 2nd Place Winner: Tara Cronin
Congratulations to Tara Cronin for her Second Place win in CENTER’S Director’s Choice Award for her project, Thens. The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive admission to Review Santa Fe portfolio reviews and participation in a winner’s exhibition […]
The Center Awards: Curator’s Choice Award 1st Place: Rich Frishman
Congratulations to Rich Frishman for his First Place win in CENTER’S Curator’s Choice Award for her project, Ghosts of Segregation. The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. Images can be singular or part of a series. Winners receive admission to Review Santa Fe portfolio reviews and participation in a […]
The CENTER Awards: Project Development Grant Winner: Sama Alshaibi
Congratulations to Sama Alshaibi for being selected for CENTER’s Project Development Grant recognizing her project, Carry Over. The grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary, or photojournalist works-in-progress and includes a cash award to help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and professional development opportunities for the work’s final stages. This […]
Blue Earth Alliance: Jacob Maentz: Project Katutubong Pilipino
Jacob Maentz’s long-term project documenting indigenous cultures in the Philippines demonstrates the care and commitment contemporary audiences expect from photographers who are creating work about communities other than their own. His images give us a reverent glimpse into the daily lives of his subjects, and offer viewers an opportunity to learn about—and learn from—people who […]
Louise Russell: Points of View
There are certain artists with the passion and patience to make a particular subject their life’s work. Louise Russell has spent decades photographing 152 acres of land in San Diego’s backcountry, in a deeply personal place called the J9 Ranch. This parcel of high desert has been in her family for over 100 years, not long after the […]