Recent Fellows
2024
Florence Middleton
Florence Middleton is a documentary photographer focusing on the themes of women and community. Through her work, she hopes to share new perspectives and challenge assumptions.
2023
George Alfaro
George Alfaro is a Latin American documentary photographer and cinematographer reporting on environmental injustices, socioeconomic inequality, and international affairs.
2022
Kori Suzuki
On May 26, 2020, a day after the shocking video surfaced of Floyd pleading for Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, to take his knee off of his neck, Suzuki grabbed his camera when he heard people were gathering to protest the day after Floyd died.
2021
Yuriria Avila Guzman
When Yuriria Avila saw Carmen Monoxide perform last year in Love for the Arts, a competition created by one of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars winners, Avila couldn’t believe she hadn’t heard of the drag performer until then.
2019
Wesaam Al-Badry
When photojournalist Wesaam Al-Badry went to rural North Dakota to photograph a Native American family struggling to stick together in the face of poverty and isolation, he actually moved in with the Thunderhawks for a few weeks.
2018
Rosa Furneaux
Berkeley News spoke with Furneaux, who discussed how the fellowship will allow her to photograph girls and young women in Kenya who have been pushed into sex work by climate change.
2017
Kyle Merrit Ludowitz
Kyle Ludowitz was an undergraduate at Evergreen College when, in a moment, his life snapped into focus. “I was watching the Iraq war happening, and I was so curious to understand what was going on,” he recounts.
2016
Shawn Baldwin
Shawn Baldwin shares a natural connection with legendary American photographer Dorothea Lange: Like her, he has a talent for capturing images of people surviving dramatic upheaval in their lives.
Complete List of Fellows
- 2022
- Kori Suzuki, Journalism
- 2021
- Yuriria Avila Guzman, Journalism
- Michaela Vatcheva, Honorable Mention
- 2020
- Clara Mokri, Journalism
- David Gilbert, Honorable Mention
- 2019
- Wesaam Al-Badry, Journalism
- Jared Stapp, Honorable Mention
- 2018
- Rosa Furneaux, Journalism
- Walker Manchester Dawson, Journalism, 2nd place
- Lisa Hornak, Honorable Mention
- Mary Newman, Honorable Mention
- 2017
- Kyle Merrit Ludowitz, Journalism
- 2016
- Shawn Baldwin, Journalism
- Bonnie Chan, 1st runner up
- Richard Koci Hernandez, 2nd runner up
- 2015
- Sara Lafleur-Vetter, Journalism
- Anthony Fontes, Honorable Mention
- Terray Sylvester, Honorable Mention
- 2014
- Jason Jaacks, Journalism
- Sean Havey, Journalism, 2nd place
- 2013
- Molly Oleson, Journalism
- 2012
- Tyler Orsburn, Journalism
- 2011
- Vanessa Carr, Journalism
- 2010
- Steve Saldivar, Journalism
- 2009
- Rhyen Coombs, Journalism
- 2008
- Adithya Sambamurthy, Journalism
- 2007
- Jeremy Rue, Journalism
- 2006
- Jakob Schiller, Journalism
- Timothy Wheeler, Journalism
- 2005
- Tristan Spinski, Journalism
- 2004
- Andrew Moisey, Rhetoric/Film Studies
- 2003
- Mimi Chakarova, Journalism
- 2002
- Wendy Cheng, Geography
- 2001
- Peter Lemieux, Business
- 2000
- N/A
- 1999
- N/A
- 1998
- N/A
- 1997
- N/A
- 1996
- Don Choi, Architecture
- 1995
- Eric Gran, Journalism
- 1994
- Christopher Smith, Journalism
- 1993
- Alison Wright, Anthropology
- 1992
- Nina Egert, Anthropology
- 1991
- N/A
- 1990
- Amie Laird McNeel, Art Practice
- 1989
- Lee Brumbaugh, Anthropology
- 1988
- N/A
- 1987
- Ken Light, Journalism
- 1986
- N/A
- 1985
- Don Richards, Environmental Design
- 1984
- Sue Rosoff, Environmental Design
- 1983
- Pamela Ellen Israel, Anthropology
- 1982
- Kenneth Wilkes, Health and Medical Science