Inge Morath Award
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The Inge Morath Award was established by Magnum Photos
in tribute to Inge Morath
, an Austria
n-born photographer who was associated with Magnum for almost fifty years, and who died in January, 2002. Funded by her colleagues at Magnum Photos, the Award is administered by the Magnum Foundation in cooperation with the Inge Morath Foundation.
The annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman photographer under thirty years of age, to assist in the completion of a long term documentary project. The winner and finalists are selected by the photographer members of Magnum Photos, and a representative of the Morath Foundation, at the Magnum annual meeting. It is the only award that carries the imprimatur of Magnum Photos, bringing great prestige to those selected as winners and finalists.
The call and guidelines for submissions are announced annually by The Magnum Foundation and The Inge Morath Foundation on their web sites, usually in January/February.
Clicking on the artist's name will link to her web site, if available. Clicking on the project name will link to the Award winning presentation, hosted at the Inge Morath Foundation's web site.
Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo...
in tribute to Inge Morath
Inge Morath
Ingeborg Morath was an Austrian-born photographer. In 1953 she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with them in 1955...
, an Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n-born photographer who was associated with Magnum for almost fifty years, and who died in January, 2002. Funded by her colleagues at Magnum Photos, the Award is administered by the Magnum Foundation in cooperation with the Inge Morath Foundation.
The annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman photographer under thirty years of age, to assist in the completion of a long term documentary project. The winner and finalists are selected by the photographer members of Magnum Photos, and a representative of the Morath Foundation, at the Magnum annual meeting. It is the only award that carries the imprimatur of Magnum Photos, bringing great prestige to those selected as winners and finalists.
The call and guidelines for submissions are announced annually by The Magnum Foundation and The Inge Morath Foundation on their web sites, usually in January/February.
Clicking on the artist's name will link to her web site, if available. Clicking on the project name will link to the Award winning presentation, hosted at the Inge Morath Foundation's web site.
| Year | Award Winner | Project Title | Finalist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Emily Schiffer (USA) | Cheyenne River | Jenn Ackerman (USA) |
| 2008 | Kathryn R. Cook (USA) | Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide | Leonie Purchas (UK) and Alice Smeets (Belgium) |
| 2007 | Olivia Arthur (UK) | The Middle Distance | Newsha Tavakolian (Iran) and Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan) |
| 2006 | Jessica Dimmock Jessica Dimmock Jessica Dimmock is a documentary photojournalist based in New York City. Her main body of work, The Ninth Floor, has documented the lives of a group of young heroin users over the course of several years. She began the project when she was shooting photographs on the street one day and was... (USA) |
The Ninth Floor | Dana Romanoff (USA) |
| 2005 | Mimi Chakarova (USA) | Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe | Jessica Dimmock (USA), Shannon Taggart (USA), and Ren Yue (China) |
| 2004 | Claudia Guadarrama (Mexico) | Before the Limit | |
| 2002 | Ami Vitale (USA) | Kashmir | |