Tag Archives: W. Eugene Smith Fund

Mark Peterson’s “Political Theatre”

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Christopher George

Mark Peterson, The CPAC convention, National Harbor, MD, February 2015 Sen. Rand Paul won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll for the third year in a row on Saturday, with 25.7% of the vote, event organizers announced Saturday at … Continue reading →

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Jane Evelyn Atwood: “…to live in a world of seers, when you can’t see…”

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Christopher George

Jane Evelyn Atwood, Regional Institute of Education for the Blind, St. Mandé, France, 1981 (190.1981) Jane Evelyn Atwood, Institute of Education for the Senses, Denfert Rochereau, Paris, France, 1980 (134.1995) Jane Evelyn Atwood, Work Aid Center, St. Vincent de Paul, … Continue reading →

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Día de Muertos

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Christopher George

Sebastião Salgado, Day of the Dead in San Vicente, 1982 (2007.22.1) This pair of photos, and about thirteen more, made during seven years of photographing in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, helped Sebastião Salgado achieve a W. Eugene Smith … Continue reading →

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Matt Black is the 2015 Recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Christopher George

Matt Black, USA, Tulare, California, Birds, 2014 (2015.38.3) Tulare, CA. The population is 59,278 and 21.4% live below the poverty level. Matt Black, USA, York, Pennslyvania, Rainstorm, 2015 (2015.38.8) York, PA. The population is 43,718 and 37.1% live below the … Continue reading →

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Faith in Chaos

Posted on September 27, 2012 by claartjevandijk

Pep Bonet, Kinny Mattia tries to feel the morning light. “Milton Margai” is the only school for the blind in Sierra Leone. Approx. 85 children, 4 to 18 yrs old, study and live here. In 1998, when RUF-rebels attacked Freetown, … Continue reading →

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Recent Acquisitions: Lu Guang’s “Pollution in China”

Posted on February 29, 2012 by erinbarnett

Lu Guang, Workers in the factories have no immunity defenses. They get ill after one or two years on the job, Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia, April 10, 2005 Lu Guang, The sewage plant of the Fluorine Industrial Park discharges its … Continue reading →

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Water in Sahel by John Vink

Posted on September 16, 2010 by erinbarnett

John Vink, Djenné, Mali, January 5, 1986 Water well in front of a mosque. John Vink, Burkina Faso, March 23, 1985 Women carrying water on a 25-minute walk through rough terrain from the well to their house. John Vink, T’ln … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Syomin

Posted on May 20, 2010 by claartjevandijk

Vladimir Syominm, Kiev near Kiev – Pecherskaya Lavra, September 1997 Vladimir Syomin, Village Krupets, Kursk Region, Russia, October 1996 Vladimir Syomin, Frozen birds after storm, Novorossiysk City, Krasnodar Territory, Russia, December 1997 Vladimir Syomin, “Work,” Timashevsk, Krasnodar Territory, Russia, October … Continue reading →

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Dario Mitidieri’s Children of Bombay

Posted on March 24, 2010 by fansinaflashbulb

Dario Mitidieri, Savita, a two and a half years girl from North Bombay, performs for Arab tourists near the Taj-Mahal Hotel, from the Children of Bombay series, 1992 Dario Mitidieri, Lunch time at Dongri Children’s Remand Home. It is Asia’s … Continue reading →

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Milton Rogovin is 100!

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Christopher George

Milton Rogovin, Family of Miners, France, 1981 Milton Rogovin, Family of Miners, Appalachia, 1981 Milton Rogovin, Family of Miners, Germany, 1984 On Wednesday, December 30, 2009, social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin turned 100! Among Milton Rogovin’s many, many accomplishments include … Continue reading →

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