Photojournalist Yunghi Kim
Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving
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Stephen Maturen
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Nicolo Filippo Rosso
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*We thank all those who submitted entries to this year’s grant. We received more than 110 applications for the grant.
Peace, Yunghi
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Doug Barrett
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CAPTION: Randy and Chris share their horses and provide rides to inner city Black youth as their part of showing youth that may not otherwise be exposed to farming and ranching or what it means to be a cowboy.
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COMMENT: Doug is a natural storyteller. A former police officer and military vet, his keen people skills have created a comfortable connection with the people he photographs. Working in his community, his images fit together in a masterful puzzle to tell moving stories, often, off the beaten track in America.
Doug Barrett / Manhattan. Kansas / “Black Cowboys, Black Famers” / @400northcreative
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Svet Jacqueline
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CAPTION: Victoria, 6, holds her ears as Russian airstrikes can be heard above the underground bunker her family has been living in Saltivka, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine located less than 10km from the frontlines.
COMMENT: Svet was the very first applicant for this year’s Yunghi Kim grant. She immediately set a high bar. One hundred -plus applicants later and her work remained at the top of the pile. Svet writes that she plans to document the lives of orphaned children as they grow up in war-torn Ukraine. She has drawn upon her personal background as an orphan in selecting this topic. The empathy she shares with the people is apparent in her work. Svets images are complicated and layered, like the stories they tell.
Svet Jacqueline / Baltimore, Maryland / “Too Young To Fight” / @___Svet
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Terra Fondriest
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CAPTION: Young Ozark Love: October 14, 2017. Taylor and Trey, ages 20 and 21, got married on land that’s been in the family for 3 generations, a pasture that belonged to the groom’s grandfather. They’d dated most of high school and had been planning this day for over a year. The ceremony was in the afternoon, followed by a potluck under a nearby oak tree. It was after that, that the younger crowd moved to where the trucks were parked to start their after party.
COMMENT: Finding stories in your own backyard is skill that should be in every photojournalist’s toolkit. Rendering them with a freshness and often-lyrical quality elevates her work. Her mastery of light imbues her images with an almost Kodachrome feel. Terra pulls back the curtain on rural life in America yet her pictures are full of tenderness and familiarity. She can make a bug crawling on someone’s knee look like the highlight of the day.
Terra Fondriest / St. Joe, Arkansas / “Ozark Life” / @terrafondriest
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Stephen Maturen
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Caption: BROOKLYN CENTER, MN – APRIL 11: A man leaps from the roof of a police cruiser as a crowd gathered at the scene where Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Police held a line and were confronted by community members while investigators searched the scene.
COMMENT: Stephen is a strong news photographer, using his unique talents and perspective to capture essential moments that endure. It’s hard to calmly observe chaos — no less danger — and step away with honest, technically perfect but notably distinctive images that are moving and impactful.
Stephen Maturen / Minneapolis Minnesota / Duante Wright and George Floyd / @stephen_Pix
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Eman Mohammed
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CAPTION: Northern Gaza Strip, Palestine. Eight Palestinian Children in the Jabalia refugee camp, look through their window where laundry is hanging, watching a funeral procession past their house.
COMMENT: At 19, she was the only female photojournalist in Gaza, a proving ground only for the most courageous; a profession harder still for a woman. The conflict in Gaza and its multi-layered aftermath was her successful focus for many years. In her grant application Eman wrote of working on a project about Muslim women athletes. Eman has taken the work far beyond preconceptions to create an intricate story with thoughtfulness, beauty and soul.
Eman Mohammed / Washington DC / “American Muslim Women Athletes” / @emanit
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Nicolo Flippo Rosso
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CAPTION: Ahmed, 31, Ubusufaan, 20, Kamrul, 28, and Hossein, 32 (left to right), all of them of Bangladeshi nationality, stand at the border wall bars, already on United States soil but unable to move on, waiting to give themselves up to Customs and Border Protection officers in Yuma, Arizona on April 30, 2022. Although their journeys differ, most of the people in their group had left Bangladesh months before, moved to Qatar and Brazil by flights, and then on foot and buses to Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. They crossed the dangerous Darien Gap in Panama to enter Central America, where Ubusufaan said that they witnessed people dying along the route across the forest. They eventually crossed Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.
COMMENT: A mutli-year applicant for this grant, the commitment Nico makes to documenting a story is astonishing. Deeply researched, his work is powerful because he is clearly always there, entrenched in this four-year story waiting for the moments to unfold, and he is with the people literally and emotionally, the mark of a soulful photojournalist.
Nicolo Filippo Rosso / North, Central and South America / “Exodus”/ @nico.filipporosso
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*Image posted with the announcement is not necessarily the photographer’s proposed project. The Yunghi Grant is a photojournalism grant. Photojournalism has a distinction from other photography in that its has the word “journalism” in the root of the word.
* We thank all of those who submitted to this year’s grant. As every year, a huge thanks to Jeffrey D. Smith for this guidance and his patience!! We had 116 submissions this year. I hope to do this again next year. It will be announced in November 2023.
*Grant winners’ image COPYRIGHTED to each photographer. All Rights Reserved.
* Photo Credits of photographers portraits: Terra Fondriest taken by her 10 year old daughter, Svet Jaqueline by Alex Kent, Eman Mohammed by © Bret Hartman, Nicolo Filippo Rosso by Dania Maxwell.
* Yunghi Grant was started in 2015 by photojournalist Yunghi Kim with earnings she made from unauthorized use of her photographs. She started this grant to help bring awareness of the importance of copyright and to encourage photographers to register their work with the US Library of Congress. Photographers owning their work is important. Yunghi is paying it forward by giving back to photojournalism – an industry that she has proudly been a member of for 38 years. Contact Press Images Executive Director Jeffrey Smith and picture editor/ photojournalist Natalie Behring were jurors this year.
* The grant was initially devised in 2015 as open only to 5,000 members of the Facebook group “Photojournalists Cooperative” — an invite only group dedicated to educating photographers about copyright, the First Amendment and related professional issues. Relatedly, PJ Co-op members understand that obtaining a subject’s consent in a public venue (i.e., especially in NEWS situations) is (a) not required (b) rarely possible but primarily (c) inconsistent with the hard-fought and time-honored principles of what an independent press is about.
Twitter @Yunghi / Instagram Yunghi.Kim / Instagram ContactPressImages
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Photo by ©Yunghi Kim
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Indonesia 1998. Photo by Paula Bronstein.
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Khyber pass, Pakistan 2001, Border to Afghanistan. This was at the start of what is now an 20 year war in Afghanistan.
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Gardez, Afghanistan 2002. Photo by ©Paula Bronstein
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Macedonia 1999 ©Yunghi Kim
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George Floyd protest. Brooklyn 2020. ©Yunghi Kim/ Contact Press Images
Rwandan Refugee 1994. ©Yunghi Kim
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Comfort Women, South Korea 1996 ©Yunghi Kim
Mourning Freddie Gray. Baltimore 2015. ©Yunghi Kim
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Student Protest 1998. Indonesia. © Yunghi Kim
San Juan Pueblo Reservation 1989. © Yunghi Kim
Kirkuk, Iraq War 2003 ©Yunghi Kim
Somalia 1992 ©Yunghi Kim
Marshfield, Massachusetts 1987.
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Somalia 1992
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Kosovo 1999 ©Yunghi Kim
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Congratulations to the FIVE photojournalists receiving
The 2021 Yunghi Grant
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Mark Abramson
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Sharafat Ali
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David “Dee” Delgado
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Raquel Natalicchio
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Adrienne Surprenant
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Mark Abramson
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David “Dee” Delgado
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Adrienne Surprenant
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*Image posted with the announcement not necessarily photographer’s proposed project.
* We thank all of those who submitted to this year’s grant. As every year, a huge thanks to Jeffrey D. Smith of this guidance and his patience!! I hope to do this again next year. It will be announced November 2022. Peace, Yunghi
*Grant winners image COPYRIGHTED to each photographer. All Rights Reserved.
* Photo Credits of photographers portraits: Mark Abramson by Katia Repina, Ali Sharafat by Syed Amir, David “Dee” Delgado by Elias Williams, Raquel Natalicchio by Dan Pellicciari, Adrienne Surprenant by Arthur Gauthier.
* Yunghi Grant was started in 2015 by photojournalist Yunghi Kim with earnings she made from unauthorized use of her photographs. She started this grant to help bring awareness of the importance of copyright and to encourage photographers to register their work with the US Library of Congress. Photographers owning their work is important. Yunghi is paying it forward by giving back to photojournalism – an industry that she has proudly been a member of for 38 years. Contact Press Images Executive Director Jeffrey Smith and picture editor at the Curious Society Natalie Behring were jurors this year.
* The grant was initially devised in 2015 as open only to 5,000 members of the Facebook group “Photojournalists Cooperative” — an invite only group dedicated to educating photographers about copyright, the First Amendment and related professional issues. Relatedly, PJ Co-op members understand that obtaining a subject’s consent in a public venue (i.e., especially in NEWS situations) is (a) not required (b) rarely possible but primarily (c) inconsistent with the hard-fought and time-honored principles of what an independent press is about.
Twitter @Yunghi / Instagram Yunghi.Kim / Instagram ContactPressImages
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Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving
The 2020 Yunghi Grant!
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ANDREW CULLEN
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Caption: A member of the Armadillos Search and Rescue group swings a rosary over Gilberto Salazar Garcia’s skull and spine. The remains were discovered in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in February 2020. Salazar and three of his cousins left Sinaloa, Mexico to cross into the United States in 2018.
Judges Comment: We have followed Andrew Cullen’s project for several years. He has been quietly working on “What Remains” a visual elegy to undocumented migrants along the US-Mexico border. Its been a pleasure to see the evolution of his project as his style evolved and the project with it. We appreciate Andrew’s unique vision and approach to this hard-to-photograph story; it is important work. The Yunghi Grant proudly supports Andrew so he may finish its final chapter. Note: His project is not on his website and hasn’t been made public.
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RORY DOYLE
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Caption: Backwater flooding surrounds a farm in the lower Mississippi Delta on June 14, 2019. For nearly six months in 2019, the rural lower Mississippi Delta was flooded due to monumental rainfall and a historically high Mississippi River — combined with the key factor of drainage pumps that were blocked by the EPA out of fear of destroying a neighboring wetland forest. Roughly 500,000 acres remained under water that had nowhere to go without the pumps.
Judges Comment: We have also followed Rory’s work for last few years. Stories in rural America are often overlooked. Yunghi Grant is happy to support Rory’s project that focuses on the flooding in lower Mississippi Delta. Rory writes: “I’m continuing my ongoing coverage of this largely overlooked story. Being based an hour north of this flood zone, I have witnessed how difficult it is to get this rural story the international attention it deserves. Based in rural America, I will take any help I can get to publish stories from one of the most economically-challenged, forgotten and overlooked regions.”
Rory Doyle / Cleveland, Mississippi, USA / “Downpour and Virus in Mississippi”/ @rorydoylephoto
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Goncalo Fonseca
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Caption: Maria Pereira’s eldest son (left) looks on as a moving crew takes her things from the wharehouse where the landlord dumped her things. After visiting her son in Luxemburg, the 78 year old Maria Pereira found the lock on the door of her home changed. She lived on the streets for two week during the harsh winter. Graça, Lisbon, November 2019
Judges Comment: The Yunghi Grant has followed Goncalo Fonesca’s eloquent vision for last few years. We love his intimate and subtle style applied in a humanistic way to explore housing insecurities and the insidious interplay of gentrification. Goncalo writes in his proposal that his project portrays “anxiety and fear of not having a stable roof over one’s head in a country that is a popular tourist destinations with hottest real estate market in Europe.” The Yunghi Grant is happy to help support Goncalo with large exhibition prints.
Goncalo Fonseca/ Lisbon, Portugal / “New Lisbon” / @goncalo.fonseca
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ALISHA JUCEVIC
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Caption: Izel Ramos-Gonzalez, 7, looks at the damage in her grandmother’s backyard in Phoenix on Saturday, Sept. 12, after the Almeda Fire swept through Southern Oregon communities like Phoenix and Talent on Tuesday night. Izel and her parents had to evacuate their home in Medford earlier this week due to wildfires in the area, but have since been able to return to their home. They stopped by her grandmother’s to pick up some items to bring back for her.
Judges Comment: When forest fires struck the hometown of Alisha’s family in Southern Oregon, Alisha’s sister lost her house but her brother’s home survived after working tirelessly to battle back flames that surrounded the house. In the tradition of long line of female photographer with grit and talent, she covered the fires for the NYT and stayed with her brother, cooking on a camp stove and using a battery pack to run her laptop never missing a deadline. All of this rings as familiar work routines photojournalists must navigate while producing astounding and soulful work. Her work reflects an ability to document and navigate a wide range of news and feature situations. Alicia transitioned recently to freelance from her part-time newspaper job. Alisha said “Even after national attention fades, I am committed to documenting how this tragedy has affected my family’s hometown.”
Alisha Jucevic / Portland, Oregon USA /“Almeda Fire Aftermath” / @alishajucevic
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STEPHANIE KEITH
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Caption: A Trump supporter points out the person he thinks attacked him and his daughter (left) during a pro-Trump rally in Times Square in New York, New York, U.S. October 25, 2020. Several counter protesters were arrested during the afternoon of clashes in Times Square.
Judges Comment: Yunghi has always admired Stephanie’s grit. Stephanie is a hard charging news photographer and in an era when fewer women are embracing hardcore, breaking news in photojournalism. Stephanie also initiates many of her stories that lead to assignments. She is a single mom of two children and the epitome of a superwoman with all the toughness, talent and sensitivity required in both her day and night jobs! In the Trump era, Yunghi Grant supports the continuation of her work which focuses on polarization in America she’s worked on the last few years.
Stephanie Keith / New York City, USA / “Never the Twain Shall Meet” / @steffikeith
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ASSOCIATE GRANT:
$1000 donation from Timothy Hyde.
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DIANA CERVANTES
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Caption: Adelina Sosa, long time volunteer with Placitas Wild, says goodbye to a free roaming horse, Happy Boy, who she cared for many years out in the preservation. He, along with other free roaming horses waited to be transported to Mustang Camp to be trained, as that is the best hopes for rehoming them. Sosa appreciates the connection she built with the wild horses. ÒI like animals. I observe them, I try to understand them. I read them and respect their boundaries, their space Ñ they also do that with us,Ó she said. This photo series focused on documenting the women of Placitas Wild as they attempted to rehome 87 of their free roaming horses from a preserve on San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico after the Pueblo unexpectedly ended their partnership.
Judges Comment: One of the talents of Diana that comes through in her photographs is making people feel at ease. Her subjects are clearly comfortable with her. “Likable” is an important character trait of any profession but even more so in photojournalism in terms of allowing people you photograph to trust you and allow access. Yunghi Grant is happy to support her this year with a Associates Grant of $1,000, a generous donation from Timothy Hyde. We are excited to watch Diana continued journey as a photojournalist. Note: Associate Grant winners are not bound by 4-year moratorium on re-applying for the Main Grants.
Diana Cervantes / New York City, USA / “NYC Harbor” / @dee_sea_photo
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* The grant was initially devised in 2015 as open only to 5,000 members of the Facebook group “Photojournalists Cooperative” — an invite only group dedicated to educating photographers about copyright, the First Amendment and related professional issues. Relatedly, PJ Co-op members understand that obtaining a subject’s consent in a public venue (i.e., especially in NEWS situations) is (a) not required (b) rarely possible but primarily (c) inconsistent with the hard-fought and time-honored principles of what an independent press is about.
Updated 12/25/2020
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Preston Gannaway © 2018
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© Paula Bronstein
*Opytne: Donetsk region: Raisa Petrovna, 80 and her husband Stanislav Vasilyevich live in a village often caught in the crossfire between Ukrainian and Pro-Russian separatists, too close to the contact line. Raisa says that tanks were driving in front of their home in the first year of the war, now they have learned to live with the sound of shelling and gunfire daily. “We were sitting last home, screaming at them not to kill us!” Riasa said. Her husband was injured twice by shrapnel, once in his abdomen, requiring surgery. He suffers from a hernia that keeps on growing. Stanislav suffers from dementia now along with his other medical issues. “I have to treat him as a child, I am so sorry that he is like this now, I am afraid to leave him even for a moment.” Raisa stated. Their two sons live on the other side of the contact line unable to visit often because of the war. Their village, Opytne depends on humanitarian organizations to help the elderly who refuse to leave their homes and are trapped in a dangerous situation.
Paula Bronstein.Com / Bangkok, Thailand / “Lives Frozen by Conflict” Ukraine.
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Russell rests in the back of his minivan after collecting plants in the Northern Alberta bush. Russell is a Cree healer and was collecting the plants to make Thunder Medicine, a traditional healing method he learned from his grandfather. “If this doesn’t heal me, nothing will,” said Russell, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Erin Clark.Com / Boston, USA / “Medicine Man” Northern Alberta.
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Dandan, Wessam and Ibrahim from Daraa in Syria met in Calais in the fall of 2015 and moved in together shortly thereafter. Back then there were about 3500 refugees in the camp and new people arriving every day. The first few months they tried to get on trains and trucks, but in the end they managed to collect money and pay for smugglers. Even with smugglers they failed dozens of times. Since July 2016, all three are with their relatives in the UK. The Jungle was a refugee camp in the vicinity of Calais, France. According to Help Refugees 9106 men, women and unaccompanied children were living in mud, tents or temporary shelters they’d build themselves and decorate as best as possible. They all had the same goal: to enter the UK. In October 2016 the eviction of the Jungle started and after three weeks the camp was demolished
Nora Lorek.Com / Gothenburg, Sweden / “After the Jungle” refugee camp in Calais.
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Hungry, tired and dehydrated, a Rohingya refugee carries his unconscious wife to a nearby auto rickshawÊas theyÊflee toÊBangladesh, in Teknaf Upazila, on Oct. 4, 2017. Many refugees spoke of drinking salt water for several days to survive and fights erupting as they waited for boats to ferry them from Myanmar to Bangladesh. To date, over 740,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in the latest spate of violence. The crisis that began as a counterattack by the Myanmar government against Rohingya militants who had attacked several police bases on August 25, turned into a full scale “ethnic cleansing,” according to the UNHCR, as the army and local Buddhists firebombed, raped and murdered across Rakhine state, the predominantly Muslim western region of Myanmar. Myanmar, also known as Burma, has a predominantly Buddhist population, and the Rohingya are a Muslim minority who are considered illegal immigrants from Bangladesh–they have not right to vote, and are restricted in access to education, healthcare, travel, work and marriage. Myanmar’s de Facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has been criticized for failing to condemn the violence.
Cheryl Diaz Meyer.Com / Washington, DC, USA / “Survivors of Enslavement” Filipina Comfort Women.
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Lafi, 63, (no last name is given) tries to calm his grandson Yousef, 2, as he and his family joined other Internally Displaced People fleeing ISIS from Mosul as Iraqi Security Forces move to clear the city of the terror network, at Khazir Camp in Kurdistan Region.
Byron Smith.Com / Brooklyn, USA / Mosul “They Called Us Kafir” book project.
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The Brazilian semi-arid is home to more than 23 million people. It is the largest and most populous semi-arid region in the world. It’s been six years since the last rainy season, and no one knows when it will rain again. A cow is being rescued from the canal at the Barreiro district in Sertania, Pernambuco.
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With financial support provided by Yunghi Kim and Todd Bigelow, the Photojournalists Cooperative Facebook Group will be awarding two $500 grants at the Northern Short Course. The grants will be chosen and awarded by NSC during the Saturday evening awards dinner March 9, 2019.
The Photojournalists Cooperative, a private Facebook group with over 5000 photographers, is dedicated to supporting and advancing the careers of freelance photojournalists through education about business matters including copyright, licensing, contracts and other pertinent issues. Yunghi and Todd believe that freelance photojournalists who understand the industry are able to better navigate the business side of photography not only serve themselves better but elevate the professional of our industry overall. The NSC/PJ Cooperative Grant recognizes those who have done so through their association with the Northern Short Course.
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2017: Amber Bracken, Andrea Campeanu, Mikala Compton, Marko Drobnjakovic, Brendan Hoffman, Lauren Justice, Leo Novel, Michael Santiago, Andrew Seng, Ines Della Valle.
2016: Frank Fourkier. Amnon Gutman. Carol Guzy. Derek Hudson. Dania Maxwell. Myriam Meloni. Jackie Molloy. Rick Rocamora. Ann Wang. Rony Zakaria.
2015: Jason Houge. Kenneth Jarecke. Andrew Lichtenstein. Leonie Marinovich. Michelle McLoughlin. Matt Mendelsohn. William B. Plowman. Rikki Reich. Ray Whitehouse. Angel Zayas.
*Image posted with the announcement not necessarily photographer’s proposed project.
* We thank all of those who submitted to this year’s grant. As every year, a huge thanks to Jeffrey D. Smith of this guidance and his patience!! I hope to do this again next year. It will be announced November 2019. Peace, Yunghi
*Grant winners image COPYRIGHTED to each photographer. All Rights Reserved.
* Photo Credits of photographers portraits: Erin Clark by Kelsey Brunner, Cheryle Diaz Meyer by Conchitina Miguel, Stephen Frischling by Sean D. Elliot.
* Yunghi Grant was started in 2015 by photojournalist Yunghi Kim with earnings she made from unauthorized use of her photographs. She started this grant to help bring awareness of the importance of copyright and to encourage photographers to register their work with the US Library of Congress. Photographers owning their work is important. Yunghi is paying it forward by giving back to photojournalism – an industry that she has proudly been a member of for 34 years. Yunghi Kim and Contact Press Images Executive Director Jeffrey Smith were jurors of this grant.
* Interested in sponsoring a “Partnership Grant” next year? Please contact Yunghi@YunghiKim.Com.
Updated 12/ 25/ 2018
Congratulations to the 10 photojournalists receiving the 2017 Yunghi Grant:
We thank all those who submitted entries to this year’s grant; it was a challenge to narrow it to ten. Jeffrey Smith and I feel truly privileged to read everyone’s stories and proposals, and are always heartened to see that there is really strong editorial thinking and story development each year.
If you have a moment over the holidays, look at each photojournalist’s website; some very strong work there in busy and quiet corners of the world. Note too, the caliber of photojournalists who navigate a wide range of situations from breaking news to intimate moments.
I am immensely proud of all the entrants of this grant: all are committed photographers who are part of our photojournalism community, all attempting meaningful work as best as they can manage, often under difficult circumstances. This is sincerely humbling.
Thank you all, happy holidays and here’s to a successful New Year.
Yunghi Kim
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© Amber Bracken
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“Aimee Bellerose writes a note to her mom, Deanna Bellerose, on the homemade cross marking where Deanna’s remains were found, 10 years after she went missing from the streets of Edmonton. It was the first time Aimee had visited the spot since the discovery in 2012”
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“A girl living in a shelter for sex traffic survivors is holding her diary, outside Cluj-Napoca, Romania”
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“Pagans gather in a circle around a fire before a Thelemic ritual to the goddess of the sky, Nuit at Oak Spirit Sanctuary. The pagans believe eclipses are times for working with their own gods and goddesses due to the heightened energies because a solar eclipse is a rare astrological event. This photograph was taken with a long-exposure, allowing the night sky to be seen layered over the group surrounding the fire”
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“Dzavahira Grahic, 60, a Yugoslav, stands on an improvised stage during a commemoration ceremony to mark a local WWII anti-fascist uprising, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017. Grahic serves as one of the leaders of a local chapter of the Association of Anti-Fascists and WWII Veterans in Zenica. The photograph on the stage shows Josip Broz Tito, former Yugoslav leader”
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A portrait of small town, Webster City, Iowa, population 8,000.
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“Raesha Warren looks on as ranchers rope calves to brand on the Higgins family ranch in Valentine, Nebraska” From “Fly Over Me” project.
LaurenJustice.Com / Madison Wisconsin / New “Voices of Violence “
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“Clara Gaymard co-founder of Raise cycles to work, Paris, France”
LeoNovel.com / Paris, France / Breaking the Glass Ceiling
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“Julius spend a better part of the morning harvesting long stem cotton for a florist. His passion to change the narrative of what it means to be a Black farmer who grows cotton, has led to his business Black Cotton, where his products are used as decor in homes”
MSantiagoPhotos.com / Brooklyn, New York / Black Famers
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© Andrew Seng
“Daisy Quiñonez and Dylan Muldrew on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, in Portland, Ore. Daisy: I definitely got some push back, especially from men in my family. It has to do with how they see black masculinity. Honestly I think they see it as a threat… I haven’t formally introduced Dylan to my dad because of racist things he said.”
AndrewSeng.Com / NY, New York / Interracial Intimacy
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© Ines Della Valle
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“Defined by many as the Womb of Humankind, Egypt is the place where the foundations of occidental thought and spirituality were laid”
InesDellaValle.Com / Cairo, Egypt / Spiritual Path of Ancient Egypt.
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2016: Frank Fourkier. Amnon Gutman. Carol Guzy. Derek Hudson. Dania Maxwell. Myriam Meloni. Jackie Molloy. Rick Rocamora. Ann Wang. Rony Zakaria.
2015: Jason Houge. Kenneth Jarecke. Andrew Lichtenstein. Leonie Marinovich. Michelle McLoughlin. Matt Mendelsohn. William B. Plowman. Rikki Reich. Ray Whitehouse. Angel Zayas.
* We thank all of those who submitted to this year’s grant. I hope to do this again next year. It will be announced November 2018. Peace, Yunghi
* Professional photographers can request to join private Facebook group Photojournalists Cooperative (invite only), contact Yunghi@YunghiKim.Com along with link to your website.
* Photo Credits of photographers portraits: Amber Bracken by Jason Franson, Marko Drobnjakovic by Boogie, Lauren Justice by Sammy Jo Hester, Michael Santiago by Drew Osumi, Andrew Seng by Jose Luis Villegas/The Sacramento Bee.
Yunghi Grant was started in 2015 by photojournalist Yunghi Kim with earnings she made from unauthorized use of her photographs. She started this grant to help bring awareness of the importance of copyright and to encourage photographers to register their work with the US Library of Congress. Photographers owning their work is important. Yunghi is paying it forward by giving back to photojournalism – an industry that she has proudly been a member of for 34 years. Yunghi Kim and Contact Press Images Executive Director Jeffrey Smith were jurors of this grant.
Congratulations to the 10 photographers receiving the 2016 Yunghi Grant:
Frank Fournier, Carol Guzy, Amnon Gutman, Derek Hudson, Dania Maxwell, Myriam Meloni,
Jackie Molloy, Rick Rocamora, Ann Wang, Rony Zakaria
We thank all those who submitted entries to this year’s grant; it was difficult to narrow it down to ten. Jeffrey Smith and I feel privileged to read everyone’s stories and proposals, and are heartened to see that there is really strong editorial thinking and story development even as funding resources become more challenging each year.
I am immensely proud of all the entrants of this grant: committed photographers who are a part of our photojournalism community, all doing meaningful work as best as they can manage, often under difficult circumstances. My life has been enriched by being able to help in a small way.
Thank you, happy holidays and here’s to a successful New Year.
Yunghi Kim
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©Frank Fournier
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Romania 1990 “This man is a crane operator, working right above a lead smelter. The glass frame should have offered some protection from the lethal lead fumes but the permanent dirt on the glass made it impossible for him to see what he was doing so the glass was broken and the direct fumes allowed to leak in. All workers at the lead furnace were breathing toxic fumes. The neurological and behavioral effects of lead are believed to be irreversible. Many of these workers, when poisoned and sick, sank into alcoholism. Copsa Mica Romania”
NYT Seeing Red / Contact Press Images.com / Based in New York, USA / Continuation Book Project.
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“An IDP, walks over in order to help build the main house in a village intended for civilians who had to flee the fighting in E Ukraine.”
amnongutman.com / Based in the Middle East / Project IDP’s Community in Ukraine.
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©Carol Guzy
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“Hers was the first hand that held mine. Mine was the last to hold hers. Saying farewell to my mother Julia.”
4 Pultizers / Based in Washington DC, USA / Project Grief.
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©Derek Hudson
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“It shows a Kurdish man carrying his dead infant to be buried in the apocalyptic no-man’s land of Isikveren, Turkey when following persecution by Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled their homelands traversing ice covered mountains to the relative safety of a barren valley across the border in Turkey.”
Derekhudson.com / Based in UK-Germany / Project Kurds.
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©DANIA MAXWELL
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“Water is collected at a Wayuu community on June 12, 2016 in La Guajira, Colombia. A severe drought has affected all of the department making many Wayuu walk for hours to arrive at a water source.”
daniamaxwell.com / Based in Bogota, Columbia / Project Indigenous Population.
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©Myriam Meloni
myriammeloni.com /Based in Barcelona, Spain / Project Single Mother.
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©Jackie Molloy
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“Tanner lays across his fiancé David’s lap as David strokes his pregnant stomach. Tanner is transgender, female to male “FTM” and accidentally got pregnant with their baby after missing too many of his testostrone shots. The couple now await the birth of their biological daughter who is due on March 5, 2017.”
jackiemolloy.com / Washington D.C. USA / Project Transgender.
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“A grandmother attending a potluck of at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland, CA shares treasured pistachio nougat from Iran and with Mino and Mia Massooni and another guest.”
rickrocamoraphotos.wordpress.com / Based in San Francisco USA/ Project Muslim Americans.
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©Ann Wang
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“Too young to swallow her HIV medication, the 6 year old learns how to prepare her medication in a syringe, while preparing a trip to attend World Aids Day at the capital city, Beijing. Children of the Harbor project is an on-going project about the only school in rural China for students living with HIV. The school provides free accommodation, education, food and medication for 33 students age between 6 to 19. However, the school is isolated from society and have very little interaction with the outside world. The first generation of the students from the school will be graduating and taking their entrance exam for university in the summer of 2017, and for the first time in their life stepping out of the school and into the world as individuals.”
annwphoto.com / Based in Yangon Myanmar / Project HIV China.
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©Rony Zakaria
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ronyzakaria.com / Jakarta, Indonesia / Project Whalers.
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*We thank all of those who submitted to this year’s grant. I hope to do this again next year. It will be announced November 2017. Peace, Yunghi