2022 Winners
Congratulations to the SIX photojournalists receiving
The 2022 Yunghi Grant!!
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Doug Barrett
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Svet Jacqueline
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Terra Fondriest
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Stephen Maturen
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Eman Mohammed
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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.
We feel privileged to read everyone’s stories and proposals, and are always heartened to see that there is really strong editorial thinking, story development and emotionally impactful capturing of moments in news documenting intimate moments in people’s lives.
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in grants — $3,000 to each of six photojournalists — is being dispersed this year. We added a sixth grant this year because $1,000 was contributed from an anonymous donor. I contributed an additional $2,000 to fill out the sixth grant.
The Yunghi Grant judges are especially mindful of photojournalist’s growth: personally and professionally. The perseverance and resilience to take a story to its conclusion, or nearly so, is always noted by the judges.
If you have a moment over the holidays, please have a look at each photojournalist’s website and if you feel so disposed, send them a congrats.
Thank you all for taking part in the grant. A special thanks to jurors Jeffrey Smith and Natalie Behring. Happy holidays — here’s to a healthy, safe and successful New Year.
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.
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