2021 Winners
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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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Five photojournalists selected this year total of $15,000 in grants, $3,000 to each photojournalist. We thank all those who submitted entries to this year’s grant.
We 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 with stories driven to completion in a challenging editorial market.
The Yunghi Grant is especially mindful of photojournalist’s growth: personally and professionally. The perseverance and resilience to take a story to its conclusion, or nearly so is well noted.
If you have a moment over the holidays, look at each photojournalist’s website. Thank you all, happy holidays and here’s to a healthy, safe and successful New Year.
Thank you to all those who applied this year. It is painful not to award more grants. A special thanks to jurors Jeffrey Smith and Natalie Behring.
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Yunghi Kim
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Mark Abramson
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CAPTION: Miami, Florida. The funeral for Judy Spiegel at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.
COMMENTS: Jeffrey: Mark’s work resonates. So sensitively handled.
Natalie: Mark’s work stood out immediately. He masterfully tells complex stories
Mark Abramson / Los Angeles, California / “Cared for, for Eternal Life”: Grief in Jewish Community / @MarkAbramsonphoto
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Sharafat Ali
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CAPTION: After defying the restrictions Shite men and women take part in Muharram procession to commemorate the martydom of Prophet Muhammed PBUH grandson Imam Hussain. Mourners were brutally assaulted and detained by the Indian security forces when they try to take out an 8th day Muharram procession through the curfew city streets of lal chowk, the capital city of Srinagar, Kashmir. which has been banned by the government authorities from more than two decades since the armed struggle against Indian rule broke out in Kashmir.
COMMENTS. Jeffrey: No stranger to work that is highly awarded, Ali’s photographs take Kashmir from one of the most under-reported stories to “demonstratively strong and personal coverage.”
Natalie: Ali’s work is so personal and intimate. His photos make small moments grand, and grand moments epic.
Sharafat Ali / Srinagar, Kashmir, India / “Shouldering Innocence” / @Ibnali10
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David “Dee” Delgado
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CAPTION: NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 05: A young Muslim girl rides the subway on her way home from Mosque with her siblings on December 5, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York City.
COMMENTS: Jeffrey: Hard-charging, intimate news/feature photography in the best of New York press photography traditions. His 50mm represents a long lens for him.
Natalie: I love David’s bold style and that he is documenting his community.
David “Dee” Delgado / Bronx, New York / @dee_bx
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Raquel Natalicchio
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CAPTION: A group of protestors countered a Pro Trump Rally in Tujunga, CA. Police officers made a line in the center of a two-way street to block each group from physical altercations. A handful of Trump supporters crossed the police line resulting in multiple fights, looked on by police with no effort to stop them. Eventually non-lethal weapons were deployed against the counter protestors side without warning.
COMMENTS: Jeffrey: A nice mix of caught moments in just the right light and framed compellingly.
Natalie: I love that I can see how hard Raquel works in her photos. She is out there, every day hustling and it shows in her images.
Raquel Natalicchio / Los Angeles, California / “Borderlands” / @RockmyworldRocky
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Adrienne Surprenant
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CAPTION: “Me like a beggar asking for something, like a refugee in my country,” says Marcel. “In the conflict, what happened, I saw a dead body on the ground. The person who had shot him had cut up the flesh, a cut muscle was shaking in the killer’s hand. He said, I will go eat that, I will go grill that. I got scared. I crawled away.” Since then, when Marcel closes his eyes at night the scene repeats itself, as vivid as if he wasn’t asleep. “At the slightest noise there is the same fear.”
COMMENTS: Jeffrey: Restless, endlessly inquisitive spirit coupled with delicate handling of light and often complex composition.
Natalie: Adrienne is clearly a relentless explorer and committed to telling stories all over the globe. She wonderfully tells stories by capturing quiet moments details.
Adrienne Suprenant / Paris, France / “Trauma in the Central African Republic, seen through nightmares and insomnias” / @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.
Twitter @Yunghi / Instagram Yunghi.Kim / Instagram ContactPressImages
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