Three photojournalists are among the eight winners of the 2007 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowships. Jon Anderson, Stephen Ferry and Teru Kuwayama have been awarded one-year grants of $35,000 apiece to pursue independent projects.
Anderson, who is based in New York City and is
represented by the newly formed Anarchy Images, has been awarded a
fellowship to work on his project, "Cana Brava: The Plight of the
Braceros on the Sugar Plantations of the Dominican Republic." Ferry,
also of New York City, will use his grant to work on "Terror and Civic
Resistance in Colombia: Lessons from a Forgotten War." Kuwayama, who is
based in Brooklyn, N.Y., was awarded a fellowship for his proposal, "No
Man's Land: Survival at the Ends of Frontier," a project on
Afghanistan.
Five other fellowships were awarded to writers: freelancer Alison Bass of Newton Lower Falls, Mass.; freelancer Matthew Dallek of Washington, D.C.; Chris Davenport, a staff writer at The Washington Post; Tom Knudsen, a staff writer at The Sacramento Bee; and freelancer Miriam Pawel of Pasadena, Calif.
The fellows' completed projects will be published in APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine produced by the Alicia Patterson Foundation.
The fellowship, founded in 1964 in memory of the late editor and publisher of Newsday,
is awarded to journalists who are investigatng projects of significant
interest. The fellows are chosen by two panels of judges based on
evaluations of their proposals and past work. Previous winners have
included photographers Steve Liss, Jonas Bendiksen.
This year's judges were Toren Beasley, photo director for Newhouse News Service; Sandy Close, founder of New America Media and editor of Pacific News Service; John Margolies, freelance photographer, author and APF Fellow in 2003; Laura Parker, senior writer for USA TODAY, and APF Fellow in 1996; and Frances Stead Sellers, editor for The Washington Post’sHealth Section and APF Fellow in 2003.
Applications for the 2008 fellowships will be accepted after June 1, 2007. Applications and information is available at www.aliciapatterson.org.

