Fonds W. Eugene Smith : 45e bourse annuelle en photographie humaniste

1981 Eugene Richards - Eugene Richards of New York was awarded the 1981 W. Eugene Smith grant to complete a photographic study of a hospital emergency ward, where the most sophisticated medical techniques confront, with compassion, the most violent aspects of society.

1982 Sebastião Salgado - Sebastião Salgado, of Brazil, spent seven years documenting the lives of villagers in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico and Guatemala and published the work in a book titled: “The Other Americas.”

1985 Donna Ferrato - Donna Ferrato, with the help of the grant, completed a book on domestic violence, “Living with the Enemy.”

1992 Eli Reed - Eli Reed was awarded the grant for his long-term yet timely project: “Going Home, Crisis in Black America.” He continues to portray the different situations of African Americans in all walks of life and attempts to show the directions in which they are going.

2000 Brenda Ann Kenneally - For several years, Brenda Ann Kenneally has been documenting the legacy of drug use from generation to generation in her Brooklyn, N.Y. neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, where she lives with her young son. The root of her project was teen mothers, but soon began following families from mother to daughter to granddaughter.

2010 Darcy Padilla - Darcy Padilla was awarded the grant to continue her documentary “The Julie Project.” A visual epic, the intensely intimate story of the life and death of Julie Baird spans 18 years starting with a chance encounter in 1993, and provides an in-depth look at poverty, AIDS, and social issues affecting American Society.

2011 Krisanne Johnson - Krisanne Johnson first went to Swaziland in 2006 to document the coming-of-age rites of young women living amidst a spreading disease and its victims—women who, even in the face of such staggering odds and deep uncertainty, still possess all the energy and enthusiasm of youth.

2015 Matt Black - There are 46 million people living in poverty in the U.S. Since the year 2000, the number of people living in communities of “concentrated poverty” has doubled, Matt Black’s project, “The Geography of Poverty” combines geotagged images with census data to map and document these communities across the U.S.

2020 Sabiha Cimen - Sabiha Çimen’s project, Hafız: The Guardians of Quran, is an ongoing series of portraits shot in conservative Quran boarding schools for young girls in five cities in Turkey.

2023 Irina Werning - Since 2006, Irina Werning has been seeking and photographing women in Argentina with long hair, a style that is influenced by a blend of South American cultures and indigenous traditions in her project “Las Pelilargas”. Copyright, Irina Werning.