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© Michelle Arcila
© José Ibarra Rizo
Join us in celebrating the 2025 PhotoWork Senior Fellows. Over six months, the Fellows worked closely with their dedicated advisors to adapt a personal photographic project into the photo book format. Through focused mentorship, they engaged deeply with the practical and conceptual considerations of photo book production, including editing, design, printing, and publishing, culminating in a maquette of their book project.
The PhotoWork Senior Fellowship awards a $10,000 grant to each of three photographers who demonstrate a sustained commitment to post-documentary photography. Senior Fellows collaborate with a photography advisor over a six-month period, deepening their understanding of photo book publishing while developing a book maquette of their comprehensive body of work.
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We extend our sincere thanks to this year’s Advisors: Ron Jude, Raymond Meeks, and Kristine Potter, whose dedicated guidance was central to the Fellows’ development and to the collaborative mission of the Foundation. We also thank the various photo book experts who joined us throughout the six-month period to share their expertise with our Fellows.
“Through this mentorship, I had the space and guidance to critically examine my practice, identify gaps in my work, and refine my artistic vision. Most importantly, it allowed me to build a personal and professional relationship with my Advisor, whose insight and support have profoundly shaped the way I approach my work.”
– José Ibarra Rizo | ’25 Junior Fellow
This year’s Senior Fellows developed three compelling book maquettes based on long-term projects. Together, the works explore the challenges of living with depression and anxiety while navigating motherhood and cultural expectations; the lived experiences of migrants in the American South, honoring daily life while expanding limited narratives around migration in the United States; and the use of photography and cameraless imagery to examine the impact of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima on one photographer’s family, and how subsequent generations remember this historical and impactful history.