OSI Documentary Photography Project Announces 2009 Distribution Grant Winners

The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project announces the recipients of the 2009 Distribution Grant competition. The goal of the Distribution Grant program is to support documentary photographers who have completed a significant body of work on issues of social justice to devise—in collaboration with a partner organization—new and innovative ways of using photography as a tool for positive social change. Projects must be designed in a way that will resonate with the target audience, encourage community engagement, and have a meaningful and lasting impact on the communities or issues addressed in the images.

2009 Distribution Grantees

Greg Constantine to partner with UNHCR to create a traveling exhibition, permanent digital archive, multimedia video, and pdf photo essay that combine photographs documenting the consequences of statelessness and the denial of citizenship on Nubians in Kenya, with rare historical photographs and documents from their personal collections.

Mitch Epstein to partner with The Architectural League of New York to create a website and educational guide addressing energy production and consumption in America.

Katja Heinemann to partner with the Broadway House for Continuing Care to create an educational campaign about HIV-positive seniors geared towards eldercare and healthcare professionals.

Brenda Ann Kenneally to partner with The Sanctuary for Independent Media on a publication and series of workshops that compare historic and contemporary photographs, drawings, journals, and scrapbooks to explore how economic circumstances, disparities in education, access to healthcare, motherhood, and the criminal justice system have affected the lives of young women in Troy, New York.