Interview with Louie Palu
Alexia Foundation: Describe Afghanistan to me. How is Kandahar unique in comparison to the rest of Afghanistan? Louie Palu: Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world and has been ravaged...
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Justin Yurkanin
The Alexia Foundation photo of today, Monday, is from Justin Yurkanin’s 2002 winning student project, “Food Aid in Southern Sudan.” Justin’s story is powerful and meticulously constructed. It needs to...
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Jay Talbott
Today’s photo is from Jay Talbott’s 1993 Student Award of Excellence Project, “Belfast Boys.” The work examines the parallel lives of two boys: Michael, a Catholic, and Robert Leatham, a Protestant....
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Roger LeMoyne
Today’s photo is from Roger LeMoyne’s 2004 professional project, “War-Affected Children,” which documented the impact of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the time of LeMoyne’s project, this...
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Francesco Zizola
Today’s photo is from Francesco Zizola’s 2004 professional project, “Faultline: the Nuba in Sudan.” The Nuba Mountains are the area between the black Christian and Arab Islamic Africa in Sudan. In...
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Bryan Anselm
Today’s photo is from Bryan Anselm’s 2009 student project, “A Generation in Limbo.” As Uganda labours for economic and political progress, its citizens wait. Healthcare is poor, and archaic diseases,...
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Jan Dago
Today’s photo is from Jan Dago’s 2001 Professional Project, “Civil War in Sierra Leone.” In 1997, Sierra Leone’s democratically elected government was overthrown. An unimaginably cruel civil war took...
View ArticleAlexia Foundation Photo of Today – Heidi Bradner
Today’s photo is from Heidi Bradner’s 1998 professional project, “Caucasian Tinderbox: War in the Caucasus.” Heidi’s work in this project spans the nations and regions that make up the Causasus. She...
View ArticleDijana Muminovic: Exhuming the Victims of the Bosnian Genocide
Today’s photo is from Dijana Muminovic, this year’s Alexia Student 2nd Place Winner. Dijana’s work, “Beneath My Land” follows closely the process of finding, exhuming and burying of the victims of the...
View ArticleBalazs Gardi Documents Afghanistan Between War And Peace
With “Afghanistan – Between War And Peace,” Balazs Gardi used his 2006 Alexia professional grant to document the central Asian nation as it struggled to leave its decades of war behind it and embrace a...
View ArticleDaniel Etter Remembers the Holocaust
In 2006, Daniel Etter received a Student Award of Excellence Grant to continue his project, “The Long Shadow of the Third Reich.” His work examines how the events of the Holocaust influence people and...
View ArticleSeptember 11, 2001: An Awakening of Fear, Pride, Anger, Patriotism & Sorrow...
In the months following the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the site of the World Trade Center became a point of pilgrimage for those seeking to understand the brutal terrorist attack that took nearly 3000...
View ArticleUPDATE: Andrew Renneisen Covering Violence in Camden, NJ
Andrew Renneisen was awarded an Alexia Foundation Award of Excellence in February for “Violent Times: Crime in America’s Cities” to document violence in the city of Camden, NJ. Here, we speak with him...
View ArticleDinara Sagatova Documents the Lasting Effects of Soviet Weapons Testing
Dinara Sagatova received a student award of excellence in 2008 for her project, “Nuclear Warfare: Lasting Effects of Soviet Weapons Testing.” During the Cold War, Stalin ordered that the Semipalatinsk...
View ArticleLouie Palu Photographs Kandahar
In the work “Kandahar,” Louie Palu used his 2010 Professional Grant to introduce us to the crossroads of Asia, a place which has been in conflict for thousands of years, and the center of the current...
View ArticleUPDATE: Dijana Muminovic on Documenting the Remnants of the Bosnian Genocide
Dijana Muminovic was awarded an Alexia Foundation Second Place Student Award in February for “Beneath My Land: Exhuming Victims of the Bosnian Genocide” to document the aftermath of the brutal Bosnian...
View ArticleMarcus Bleasdale Photos Help Compel Intel to Stop Using Conflict Minerals
Marcus Bleasdale, the 2005 Alexia Professional Grantee, has shown the world that photography truly can drive change. Intel, the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductor chips, has vowed to use...
View Article“The New Culture of Violence in Latin America” from Sebastián Liste
As we announced last week, Sebastián Liste has been named the recipient of the 2014 Alexia Foundation Professional Grant. His work, “The New Culture of Violence in Latin America,” examines the violence...
View ArticleDijana Muminovic Publishes “Secrets of Lake Perućac”
Dijana Muminovic, the 2013 Alexia Second Place Student Winner, has published the e-book, “Secrets of Lake Perućac.” The book combines images from Dijana’s “Beneath My Land: Exhuming Victims of the...
View ArticleJan Dago’s “Civil War in Sierra Leone”
Jan Dago’s work, “Civil War in Sierra Leone” is exceptional. He was sent to the nation for a news story to cover the unimaginably cruel war taking place in a struggle for power. During that trip, he...
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