Audience Engagement Grantees & Projects

Since 2005, the Documentary Photography Project Audience Engagement Grant program has funded over 30 projects that range in topic, location, format, and purpose. Below is a list of projects, divided by category. Projects do not need to be limited to these categories, and we encourage future applicants to propose new and innovative distribution models.

Projects are listed under the primary mode of presentation or distribution. When projects focus on multiple strategies, they are listed several times, under the main categories that apply.

For more detailed descriptions of these projects, please follow the links below.

Exhibitions & Photography in the Public Sphere

To bring the work to audiences who may not normally be exposed to the issue. This may take the form of exhibitions or outdoor installations. Projects often include activities or events that stimulate dialogue, analysis, or collective action, and are connected to larger campaigns or initiatives.

Jon Anderson / Batey Relief Alliance, Plan International, and others

Marcus Bleasdale / Human Rights Watch

Breaking the Silence / Yehuda Shaul (Project Coordinator)

Greg Constantine / UNHCR

Mitch Epstein / The Architectural League of New York

Jim Goldberg / Amnesty International, Greece

Lynn Johnson / Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Leora Kahn (Project Coordinator) / Aegis Trust

Daniel Morel / Circles of Change

Joanne Petrina / Seattle Sound Transit

Rojelio Rodriguez / Community Research Group / CLIMB

Kayana Szymczak and Lou Dematteis / Amazon Watch

Lori Waselchuk / Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

Community-Informed, Locally Based Exhibitions

To give voice to and empower the underrepresented. Community participation can be included in the process of creating or presenting the images. Photographs are most often installed outdoors and exhibited within the communities that are documented. Projects may also include additional exhibitions outside the community. Projects are often connected to larger organizations or campaigns and have a long-term, ongoing benefit to those who are participating in the project .

Alistair Berg (Project Coordinator) / Iliso Labantu (Eye of the People)

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh / Arab Image Foundation

Wendy Ewald / Quebec Labrador Foundation / Tshikapisk Foundation

Eric Gottesman / Hope for Children

Lisa Tuttle / The Dirty Truth Campaign

Viva Favela / Viva Rio / Peter Lucas (Project Coordinator)

Slideshows & Presentations

To promote a deeper, more nuanced understanding of issues for target audiences—such as community members, students, educators, decision-makers, or direct service providers

Laurie McGinley (Project Coordinator) / Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI)

Arthur Robinson Williams / American Medical Student Association

Discussions & Workshops

To foster analysis and critical thinking around key issues through moderated discussions, workshops, or follow-up activities.

Eric Gottesman / Hope for Children

Lynn Johnson / Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Leora Kahn (Project Coordinator) / Aegis Trust

Brenda Ann Kenneally / The Sanctuary for Independent Media

Daniel Morel / Circles of Change

Joanne Petrina / Seattle Sound Transit

Educational Tools

School-based exhibitions, lectures, and curricula aimed at students.

Nina Berman / Various schools throughout the United States

Lori Grinker / Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Tim Matsui / The FEAR Project

Ryan Reed / STAND

Jonathan Torgovnik / Amnesty International

Arthur Robinson Williams / American Medical Student Association

Visual Resources

For NGOs, nonprofit organizations, educators, direct service providers, or other key stakeholders to help them be more informed and effective in their work.

Karen Furth / Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare

Jim Goldberg / Amnesty International, Greece

Katja Heinemann / Broadway House for Continuing Care

Brenda Ann Kenneally / The Sanctuary for Independent Media

Vera Lentz / (partner tbd)

Ken & Melanie Light / Public libraries in West Virginia / University of California Press

Eugene Richards / Mental Disability Rights International

Fazal Sheikh / ActionAid

Arthur Robinson Williams / American Medical Student Association

Archives

To chronicle and preserve untold, alternative, or historically significant narratives.

Greg Constantine / UNHCR

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh / Arab Image Foundation

Wendy Ewald / Quebec Labrador Foundation / Tshikapisk Foundation

Laurie McGinley (Project Coordinator) / Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI)

New Media

Tools—such as websites and multi-media—that employ new media and the web to inform and/or organize key audiences about an issue, community, or larger campaign.

Jon Anderson / Batey Relief Alliance, Plan International, and others

Breaking the Silence / Yehuda Shaul (Project Coordinator)

Mitch Epstein / The Architectural League of New York

Karen Furth / Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare

Ken & Melanie Light / Public libraries in West Virginia / University of California Press

Eugene Richards / Mental Disability Rights International