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 Latest Fall 2011 I will be teaching documentary photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. |
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415.812.4536  Bio Early in my career after 12 internships at daily newspapers --including The New York Times & The Washington Post-- I decided to freelance and pursue my own documentary projects. For one of my first longterm stories, I spent a year visiting an isolation ward at a maximum-security prison in Vacaville, California, photographing inmates with AIDS. That project received the first Alexia Grant For World Peace & Understanding, bolstering my commitment to my life’s work. AIDS and its consequences became part of them when I spent three years photographing residents of transient hotels in one of the poorest neighborhoods in San Francisco. I saw all the consequences of poverty - loneliness, broken families, drugs, and the devastation of HIV. This project received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. While I juggle several passions at once, my enduring study has been the life of one woman I met in the Tenderloin 17 years ago. This project is one that has set a direction for my approach to photography. Awards include W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship Alexia Foundation for World Peace Professional Grant Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography Professional Grant World Press Photo |