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Yesterday’s news of a deadly building collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh, comes five months after a horrific fire at similar facility, which also housed factories making clothing for European and American consumers. The earlier incident, in which over 100 people died in a blaze at Tazreen Fashions Limited, inspired photographer Abir Abdullah to document the dangerous working conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry. In March, his project, “The Deadly Cost of Cheap Clothing,” was awarded the Alexia Foundation professional grant to help him continue this work.

Read more about Abir’s project on the Alexia Foundation’s Web site.

CAPTION: More than 100 people were killed after a devastating fire took place at Tazreen Fashions Limited garment factory at Nischintapur, in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, late on Nov. 24, 2012. (Photo by Abir Abdullah/Courtesy of the Alexia Foundation)

Alexia Foundation Grants Announced

Reportage by Getty Images offers its congratulations to the winners of this year’s Alexia Foundation Grants. Abir Abdullah, whose work will depict the danger of residential and workplace fires in Dhaka, Bangladesh, received the $15,000 professional grant.

This year’s first-place student winner is Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, a graduate student at Ohio University, who will continue working on “Shane and Maggie,” her project on domestic violence. A gallery of photos from this series recently appeared on Time Lightbox.

The second place student winner is Dijana MuMinovic, and awards of excellence were given to Souvid Datta, Annie Flanagan and Andrew Renneisen. In the professional category, the other finalists were freelance photographer Christian Werner based in Nordstemmen, Germany; Robin Hammond, a freelance photojournalist based in Paris, and a member of the photo agency Panos Pictures; Noriko Hayashi, a freelance photographer based in Tokyo; Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, 31, a Reportage photographer based in Spain; and Jenn Ackerman, a freelance photographer based in Minneapolis.

Read more about this year’s awards on the Alexia Foundation’s Web site.

Above: Firefighters carry an injured person during a rescue operation at Kawran Bazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 25, 2007. Photo by Abir Abdullah.

Below: As Shane and Maggie continued to fight, Memphis ran into the room and refused to leave Maggie’s side. She witnessed the majority of the assault on her mother. Photo by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz.

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Katie Orlinksy, a featured photographer for Reportage by Getty Images, will be speaking at the Alexia Foundation’s “Stories That Drive Change” event at 25 CPW Gallery in New York on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 6 to 9 PM. Last year, Katie was awarded first place in the Alexia Foundation Student Awards, which supported her continued work on “Innocence Assassinated,” a photoessay on people whose lives have been affected by the Mexican drug war. Photographs from that series will also be on display on Wednesday night. Another of Alexia Foundation’s grant recipients, Justin Maxon, will also speak and present his work. WHAT:   Alexia Foundation “Stories that Drive Change” Gallery EventWHEN:   January 23rd, 2013 – 6:00PM to 9:00PMWHERE: 25CPW Gallery at 25 Central Park West (at 62nd Street), New York, NY 10023. 

Katie Orlinksy, a featured photographer for Reportage by Getty Images, will be speaking at the Alexia Foundation’s “Stories That Drive Change” event at 25 CPW Gallery in New York on Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 6 to 9 PM. Last year, Katie was awarded first place in the Alexia Foundation Student Awards, which supported her continued work on “Innocence Assassinated,” a photoessay on people whose lives have been affected by the Mexican drug war. Photographs from that series will also be on display on Wednesday night. Another of Alexia Foundation’s grant recipients, Justin Maxon, will also speak and present his work.

WHAT:   Alexia Foundation “Stories that Drive Change” Gallery Event
WHEN:   January 23rd, 2013 – 6:00PM to 9:00PM
WHERE: 25CPW Gallery at 25 Central Park West (at 62nd Street), New York, NY 10023. 

Source alexiafoundation.org

The Women's Initiative

In every country in the world, women are being abused, trafficked, bartered, sold, burned by fire and acid and killed, sometimes by their own families, for “honor” or anger.
 
The Alexia Foundation, recognizing that most of the time abuse of women in the United States is hidden, rationalized, ignored, and sometimes worst of all, quietly accepted by the women being abused, has created a grant to provide resources for a photojournalist to produce a project that illuminates any form of abuse of women in the United States but with global significance.
 
The Alexia Foundation’s main purpose is to encourage and help photojournalists create stories that drive change. While our traditional grant guidelines put no limits on the subject matter for grant proposals, a few proposals about women’s rights in the last few years have been so powerful that they have compelled the Foundation to create a grant specifically on the issue of women’s abuse.  Because this issue is so shocking and deplorable – but continues partly because it is so often unseen or ignored – the Foundation will provide a $25,000 grant so a project can be produced that will illuminate the horrors of what is happening, often invisibly in our own communities.

Congratulations to the Alexia Foundation Winners

via www.alexiafoundation.org

Justin Maxon, the winner of the 2012 Alexia Foundation professional grant will receive a $15,000 grant toward the completion of his project, which aims “to shed light on the frightening reality of how many murders go unsolved every year in America.” 

Justin Maxon is an independent documentary photographer living in San Francisco.  Maxon has received numerous awards for his photography, from competitions like World Press Photo, UNICEF Images of the Year, POYi, and NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism. He won the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year at the 2008 Lucie Awards, the same year he was named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch.  He was selected to participate in World Press Photo’s 2010 Joop Swart Masterclass.  Maxon was also the second place student winner in the 2008 Alexia Foundation competition.  He is one of only two photographers to have earned Alexia Foundation grants as a student and professional.

There were 191 professional applications this year, which the judges narrowed down to three finalists.

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