
The
Inge Morath Award was established by the members of Magnum Photos in tribute to thei colleague, who was associated with Magnum for more than fifty years. Funded by the photographers, the Award is administered by the Inge Morath Foundation in cooperation with the Magnum 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 themembers of Magnum Photos and a representative of the Morath Foundation at the Magnum annual meeting.
The call for submissions and guidelines are announced annually by The Magnum Foundation and The Inge Morath Foundation on their web sites, usually in January/February. Winners of the Award are announced in July.
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Past Recipients:
2013
No Award given.
Lauren Pond (US), Finalist for
Faith and Its Price
2012
Isadora Kosofsky (US), Winner, for
Selections from “The Three” and “This Existence"
Carlotta Zarattini (Italy), Finalist for
The White Building: A Mirror of Cambodia
2011
Zhe Chen (China), Winner, for
Bees
2010
Lurdes R. Basolí (Spain), Winner, for
Caracas, The City of Lost Bullets
Claire Martin (Australia), Winner, for
Selections from The Downtown East Side and Slab City
2009
Emily Schiffer (US), Winner, for
Cheyenne River
Jenn Ackerman (US), Finalist, for
Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
2008
Kathryn Cook (US), Winner for
Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide
Leone Purchas (UK), Finalist, for
In the Shadow of Things
Alice Smeets (Belgium), 2008 Finalist, for
Growing Up in Haiti
2007
Olivia Arthur (UK), Winner, for
The Middle Distance
Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), Finalist, for
Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives Along the Pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey
Newsha Tavakolian (Iran), Finalist, for
Iran: Girl Power!
2006
Jessica Dimmock (US), Winner, for
The Ninth Floor
Dana Romanoff (US), Finalist, for
Wife of the God
2005
Mimi Chakarova (US), Winner, for
Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe
Jessica Dimmock (US), Finalist, for
The Ninth Floor
Shannon Taggart (US), Finalist, for
The Spiritualists
Yue Ren (China), Finalist, for
Gay Scene in Beijing
2004
Claudia Guadarrama (Mexico), Winner, for
Before the Limit
2003
No Award given.
2002
Ami Vitale (US),
Winner for Kashmir