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Lifetime – 2013

Mary Swanson photographed by Jessica Tampas

Mary Virginia Swanson

Mary Virginia Swanson

Mary Virginia Swanson, is an author, educator and advisor to artists and arts organizations whose career includes exhibiting, collecting and licensing photography.


mvswanson.com/
Presented by: Susan Kae Grant

Susan kae Grant will present the award to Mary Virginia Swanson

Lifetime – 2012

Eelco Wolf

Eelco Wolf, was in charge of Worldwide Marketing Communications for the Polaroid’s Corporation as well as Executive Director of Magnum Photos Worldwide, currently a member of the Photography Collection Committee of the Harvard Art Museums.


Presented by: Henry Horenstein

Henry Horenstein will present the award to Eelco Wolf.

Lifetime – 2011

Dr. Alison Norström

Dr. Alison Nordström, is Curator of Photographs and Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.


Presented by: W.M. Hunt

W.M. Hunt will present the award to Dr. Nordström.

Lifetime – 2010

James K. Colton

James K. Colton

Colton is currently the photography editor for Sports Illustrated.


Presented by: Steve Fine

Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated for the past 14 years, Fine will present the award to Mr. Colton

Lifetime – 2009

Eliane Laffont

Eliane Laffont

Eliane Laffont has been a leading creative and entrepreneurial force in the world of photojournalism. In 1968, she opened the first U.S. office of Gamma Press Images in collaboration with her husband, Jean-Pierre. In 1973, they co-founded Sygma Photo News Agency, where Laffont served as general manager, then president of North American operations, for nearly three decades (with a two-year hiatus at LOOK magazine). Under Laffont’s leadership, Sygma blossomed into the world’s largest photo news agency with more than 500 photographers in 50 countries. In 1999, Sygma was acquired by Bill Gates’ Corbis Images and Laffont was appointed U.S. operations general manager and later was promoted to global vice president of editorial content of Corbis-Sygma. In 2001, Laffont joined Hachette Filipacchi Media as editorial director, supervising the photographic production of the group in the U.S. and developing the photo division around three sectors: photojournalism, photo illustration and photo reportage.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliane_Laffont
Presented by: Jean François LeRoy

LeRoy is the founder of Visa pour L’image Festival in Perpignan, France.

Lifetime – 2008

Deborah Willis photo © Jennifer Samuels

Deborah Willis

Debora Willis is the Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, Curator, Author, Educator, Historian, and Photographer


debwillisphoto.com/home.html
Presented by: Anna Maria Horsford

Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen, and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros.

Lifetime – 2007

Kathy Ryan

Kathy Ryan

Photo Editor, The New York Times Magazine.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Ryan
Presented by:

Gregory Crewdson presents the award to Kathy Ryan. He is an American photographer. He photographs tableaux of American homes and neighborhoods.

Lifetime – 2006

Anne Wilkes Tucker

Anne Wilkes Tucker

Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston


www.mfah.org/exhibitions/
Presented by: Leonard Nimoy

Photographer presents award to Anne Wilkes Tucker.

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Focus Awards 2014 (Part 1) from Justin Ziebell on Vimeo.

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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