2019 CENTER Santa Fe Award Winners Exhibition

CENTER’s 2019 Award and Grant winners projects are featured in the exhibition, 2019 CENTER Santa Fe Award Winners Exhibition, with images selected by Mia Diaglish & Lisa Woodard, curators at the Pictura Gallery. The Award and Grant winning projects investigate current issues like segregation, historical stereotypes, coming-of-age, maternal mortality, and more.

WHEN • December 6, 2019 – February 1, 2020

WHERE • Pictura Gallery – 202 S. Rogers Street, Bloomington, IN

HOW • Free and Public

OPENING NIGHT • Friday, December 6, from 5 PM - 8 PM

GALLERY HOURS • Tuesday - Friday 10 AM - 5:30 PM, Saturday 10 AM - 7 PM

© Rocky McCorkle

  • Cody Cobb • Rift, from the project “Strange Land”

  • Rania Matar • Nour #2, Beirut Lebanon, from the project “SHE”

  • Me&Eve Award

    Juror Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine

    • Lori Hawkins, New York, NY; Too Far to Walk

  • Project Launch Grant

    Juror Virginia Heckert, Curator, Department of Photographs, The J. Paul Getty Museum

    • Winner: Igor Tershkov, Moscow, Russia; Oil and Moss
    • Honorable Mention: Moira McDonald, San Francisco, CA; Pacifica
    • Honorable Mention: Dylan Hausthor & Paul Guilmoth, Peaks Island, ME; Sleep Creek

  • The CENTER Awards

    Curator’s Choice Award • Juror Makeda Best, Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museum
    • 1st Place: Rich Frishman, Langley, WA; Ghosts of Segregation
    • 2nd Place: Cody Cobb, Seattle, WA; Strange Land
    • 3rd Place: Astrid Jahnsen, Palo Alto, CA; Backdrop

    Director’s Choice Award • Juror Monica Allende, Artistic Director, Getxophoto International Festival & Independent Curator
    • 1st Place: Lesia Maruschak, Ontario, Canada; MARIA
    • 2nd Place: Tara Cronin, Captain Hook, HI; Thens
    • 3rd Place: Maria Sturm, Berlin, Germany; You Don’t Look Native to Me

    Editor’s Choice Award • Juror MaryAnne Golon, Director of Photography, The Washington Post
    • 1st Place: Rania Matar, Brookline, MA; SHE
    • 2nd Place: Kitra Cahana, Quebec, Canada; Caravana Migrante
    • 3rd Place: Xan Padron, New York, NY; Time Lapse

    Excellence in Multimedia Award • Juror Makeda Best, Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museum
    • 1st Place: Rocky McCorkle, Campbell, CA; You and Me on a Sunny Day
    • 2nd Place: Annette Fournet, Memphis, TN; Strange Land
    • 3rd Place: Kevin Mooney, Palo Alto, CA; 366247•2012