By Daryl Lang
© Asim Rafiqui / Courtesy The Aftermath Project
An image from a previous project by Aftermath Grant winner Asim Rafiqui on Pakistan called "Letters from a Jilted Lover."
The Aftermath Project has awarded its annual $25,000 grant to
photographer
Asim Rafiqui, who plans to use the grant to
fund a project on religious culture in India.
“Asim Rafiqui's work as a photographer aims to recover this lost
sense of religious pluralism and tolerance for a 21st century
India,” says Aftermath judge
Darius Himes of Radius Books in
a statement announcing the award. “He states that he is ‘using
photography not only as a means of evidence, but also as a vessel
for the imagination.’”
Rafiqui lives in Sweden and the U.S. His project is especially
timely after the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Aftermath’s $15,000 grant is going to
Louie Palu of Canada,
for his project on American war veterans called “Home Front.”
Palu's project compares the experiences of veterans of the wars in
Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Photographer
Maggie Steber, another Aftermath judge, says of
Palu, “He trains his camera on the truth: men coming in from
battle, shell-shocked, dismayed, broken-hearted, destroyed, and yet
somehow holding on to the humanity that gets whittled down each day
with military patrols. His portraits of American soldiers are as
honest and raw as they come.”
The Aftermath Project judges also named six finalists this year,
from 142 applications:
-
Rodrigo Abd of Guatemala for “Reclaiming the dead: mass
graves in Guatemala, a
story only partially told.”
-
Andrea Bruce of the U.S. for “Unseen Iraq.”
-
David Monteleone of Italy for “Russian Caucasus.”
-
Saiful Huq Omi of Bangladesh for “The Disowned and the
Denied: the Rohingya
Refugees in Bangladesh.”
-
Donald Weber of Canada for “Firewalk: Life with Cluster
Bombs in South Lebanon.”
-
Ami Vitale of the U.S. for “Kashmir: Lifting the
Veil.”
The Aftermath Project was founded by photojournalist
Sara
Terry. The grants were first awarded in 2006.
(Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Terry's
last name.)
Related link
The Aftermath
Project
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Dec 15, 2008
By Daryl Lang
An image from a previous project by Aftermath Grant winner Asim Rafiqui on Pakistan called "Letters from a Jilted Lover."
The Aftermath Project has awarded its annual $25,000 grant to photographer
Asim Rafiqui, who plans to use the grant to fund a project on religious culture in India.
“Asim Rafiqui's work as a photographer aims to recover this lost sense of religious pluralism and tolerance for a 21st century India,” says Aftermath judge
Darius Himes of Radius Books in a statement announcing the award. “He states that he is ‘using photography not only as a means of evidence, but also as a vessel for the imagination.’”
Rafiqui lives in Sweden and the U.S. His project is especially timely after the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
Aftermath’s $15,000 grant is going to
Louie Palu of Canada, for his project on American war veterans called “Home Front.” Palu's project compares the experiences of veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Photographer
Maggie Steber, another Aftermath judge, says of Palu, “He trains his camera on the truth: men coming in from battle, shell-shocked, dismayed, broken-hearted, destroyed, and yet somehow holding on to the humanity that gets whittled down each day with military patrols. His portraits of American soldiers are as honest and raw as they come.”
The Aftermath Project judges also named six finalists this year, from 142 applications:
-
Rodrigo Abd of Guatemala for “Reclaiming the dead: mass graves in Guatemala, a
story only partially told.”
-
Andrea Bruce of the U.S. for “Unseen Iraq.”
-
David Monteleone of Italy for “Russian Caucasus.”
-
Saiful Huq Omi of Bangladesh for “The Disowned and the Denied: the Rohingya
Refugees in Bangladesh.”
-
Donald Weber of Canada for “Firewalk: Life with Cluster Bombs in South Lebanon.”
-
Ami Vitale of the U.S. for “Kashmir: Lifting the Veil.”
The Aftermath Project was founded by photojournalist
Sara Terry. The grants were first awarded in 2006.
(Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Terry's last name.)
Related link
The Aftermath Project
Related stories
December 12, 2007: Aftermath Project Grant Goes To Kathryn Cook
December 8, 2006: First Aftermath Grants Go To Goldberg, Böwig
