© Mitsu Maeda
Me&Eve Award
The Me&Eve Award provides $1,000 in financial support to a female or LGBTQ+ photographer 40 years of age and over.
PROJECT ADVANCEMENT PACKAGE
• $1,000 USD
• Winners Exhibition at CENTER
• Review Santa Fe participation
• Public Project Presentation
• Publication in LENSCRATCH
• Professional Development Seminars access
• Inclusion in the printed Program Guide
• Inclusion in the CENTER Winners Gallery & Archive
Mitsu Maeda • The Shining Lady
“Memories of my grandmother, Tsuyajyo, kindly stay with me all the time; A small purse in which Tsuyajyo collected 500 yen coins to give me and my sister when we visited her. Hide-and-seek in a morning after I stayed a night at their house… Tsuyajyo began showing symptoms of dementia around 2009. It was the first time my mother experienced having a family member with dementia. She took care of her mother, who could hardly perform basic tasks like eating or taking a bath. Tsuyajyo would often get angry irrationally and became someone my mother no longer recognized as her mother. These days lasted for about two years.”
2025 Recipient
2025 Juror
Leonor Mamanna
Deputy Photo Director, Bloomberg Businessweek / Pursuits
Leonor Mamanna is the Deputy Photo Director at Bloomberg Businessweek. In addition to the magazine, she is the Photo Editor for the Pursuits and Weekend brands. Previously, she worked at New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Men's Vogue, Money Magazine and More. She was the photo director of the all-female magazine Mary Review. Her work in these magazines has won her awards from The Society of Publication Designers, American Photography, Photo District News, American Society of Magazine Editors, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, POYi and more. She has served on juries for PDN Photo Annual, Photoville, Daylight Photo, Overseas Press Club, National Press Photographers Association, Latin American Fotografía and ASME. Leonor is a born-and-raised New Yorker from the Upper West Side who lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.
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