Focus Areas

Past support for documentary photography production came from the following OSI programs:

• Individual Project Fellowships Program, which ran from 1996–2000 and supported Bruce Davidson, Donna DeCesare, Leslie Fratkin, Karen Furth, Gilles Peress, Darcy Padilla, and Zana Briski;
• Project on Death in America, which operated from 1994–2003 and supported Ed Kashi, Meryl Levin, Eugene Richards, Bastienne Schmidt, and Philippe Cheng;
• Soros Justice Media Fellowships, which supported photography until 2005 and funded Brenda Ann Kenneally, Andre Lamberston, Andrew Lichtenstein, Steve Liss, Joseph Rodriguez, Steve Rubin, and Tyrone Turner;
• Katrina Media Fellowships, which were awarded to Debblie Fleming Caffery, Keith Calhoun, Stanley Greene, Kamoinge (an African-American photographers collective), Chandra McCormick, Joseph Rodriguez, Kadir van Lohuizen, Clarence Williams, and Michael Williamson.