© Harvey Castro
Multimedia Award
The Multimedia Award recognizes outstanding storytellers using lens-based media to create narrative-driven projects. The award is open, but not limited to, photography, video, new media, photojournalism, installation, and web-based works. Projects that inspire social action, document crucial issues, and amplify underrepresented voices are encouraged to apply.
PROJECT ADVANCEMENT PACKAGE
• Review Santa Fe Admission
• Winners Exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
• Public Project Presentation
• Featured Publication in LENSCRATCH
• Professional Development Seminars
• Inclusion in the CENTER Winners Gallery & Archive
We are adding to our database and archive of lens-based work from the last 30 years and invite you to contribute. All applicant’s work will remain in the CENTER archive, regardless of award status.
2024 Juror
© Geoffrey Berliner/Penumbra Foundation
David Barreda – Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic
David M. Barreda (he/him) is a visual editor, multimedia producer, curator, and journalist based in Oakland, California. He is currently a senior photo editor at National Geographic and a core team member of Diversify Photo.
Previously, David was a photo editor at Earthjustice, a founding editor at Topic, and a founding editor for ChinaFile where he launched the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation.
He has more than 20 years of visual journalism experience and prior to editing, he worked as a staff photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News, the Rocky Mountain News, the Valley News, the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Herald of Randolph. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he received his Master’s degree, and of Middlebury College, where he majored in Geography and Environmental Studies.
Born in southern Peru and raised on a sheep farm in Vermont, David lives with his partner, their 12-year-old daughter, and Dandelion, a poodle-terrier(?), Covid-adoptee, rescue companion.
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