Anush Babajanyan
Year2013LocationArmeniaAmount$3,500Grantee URLhttp://anushbabajanyan.net/Anush Babajanyan will document the experiences of Armenian women who illegally migrate to Turkey for better economic...
View ArticleRentsendorj Bazarsukh
Year2013LocationMongoliaAmount$3,500Grantee URLhttp://www.gammaphoto.mn/Rentsendorj Bazarsukh will document the social interactions and exchanges that take place at Mongolia’s largest public market,...
View ArticleGulbuddin Elham
Year2013LocationAfghanistanAmount$3,500Gulbuddin Elham will document the minority Sikh and Hindu communities living in Afghanistan. Elham aims to address the harassment these two non-Muslim groups face...
View ArticleVaghinak Ghazaryan
Year2013LocationArmeniaAmount$3,500Vaghinak Ghazaryan will document children with disabilities in Armenia. Ghazaryan aims to portray the experiences of families and their children in accessing medical...
View ArticleIlkin Huseynov
Year2013LocationAzerbaijanAmount$3,500Grantee URLhttp://huseynovilkin.com/Ilkin Huseynov will document his hometown of Ganja, Azerbaijan. Huseynov’s goal is to use Ganja as an entry point to better...
View ArticlePiruza Khalapyan
Year2013LocationArmeniaAmount$3,500Piruza Khalapyan will document the experiences of Syrians living in Armenia. Khalapyan aims to portray daily life for this community of migrants in order to address...
View ArticleAsef Ali Mohammad
Year2013LocationPakistanAmount$3,500Asef Ali Mohammad will document the Hazara community living in Quetta, Pakistan. Mohammad aims to address the targeted violence against Hazaras, who migrated from...
View ArticleNelli Shishmanyan
Year2013LocationArmeniaAmount$3,500Grantee URLhttp://nellishishmanyan.com/en/Nelli Shishmanyan will document daily village life along the Azerbaijan-Armenian border. Shishmanyan aims to address the...
View ArticleIntroducing the 2013 Production Grantees from Central Asia, the South...
Learn more about the nine photographers awarded a grant to produce documentary work on pressing human rights and social issues in the region.
View ArticleAn Intimate Look at Solitary Confinement and Police Interrogations
At this year’s pop-up photography festival Photoville, the Open Society Documentary Photography Project supports two exhibits that provide an inside view of solitary confinement and police...
View ArticleDocumentary Photography in an Open Society
What is documentary photography? And can it really inspire people to make the world a more just place?
View ArticleJohn Willis
Year2013LocationSouth Dakota, United StatesAmount30,000Grantee URLhttp://jwillis.net/John Willis will partner with the Lakota Circle Village, the Lakota Peace Making Court, and KILI Radio Voice of the...
View ArticleElyor Nematov
Year2013LocationKyrgyzstanAmount25,000Grantee URLhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/elyor/Elyor Nematov will partner with Central Asia on the Move, a coalition of civil society organizations from the...
View ArticlePeter DiCampo
Year2013LocationNew York, NYAmount30,000Grantee URLhttp://www.peterdicampo.comPeter DiCampo and Austin Merrill will partner with the Bronx Documentary Center, the Learning About Multimedia Project...
View ArticleJason DaSilva
Year2013LocationNew York, NYAmount30,000Grantee URLhttp://wheniwalk.com/Jason DaSilva will partner with AXS Lab, an organization dedicated to telling stories of disability through film, new media, and...
View ArticleFour Photographers Share Their Visions for Change
Four photographers have been awarded Audience Engagement Grants to work with young people in New York City and the Lakota Nation, Kyrgyz migrants, and people with disabilities.
View ArticleVisual Storytelling and Violence: A Conversation with Donna De Cesare and...
Photojournalist Donna De Cesare speaks with NYU professor Fred Ritchin about her new book Unsettled: Children in a World of Gangs.
View ArticleExhibition Associate
The Documentary Photography Project is seeking an exhibition associate.
View ArticleMoving Walls 21 Opening Reception
The Open Society Foundations are hosting an opening reception for Moving Walls 21.
View ArticleIntroducing the 2013 Production Grantees from Central Asia, the South...
Learn more about the nine photographers awarded a grant to produce documentary work on pressing human rights and social issues in the region.
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