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	11th ANNUAL LUCIE AWARDS RECAP - CONGRATULATIONS HONOREES AND WINNERS. The 11th installment of The Lucies at Carnegie Hall was filled with laughter and tears and incredible photography. Congratulations to the six Lucie Honorees, the finalists and winners of the IPA competition and the six Support Category winners. For a complete list of winners, click here. 2013 Lucie Honoree Victor Skrebneski with presenter and friend Carmen Dell'Orefice in the Splashlight Photo Booth© Mark Glenn 2013 Lucie Honoree John H. White in the Splashlight Photo Booth. ©Mark Glenn. See all the 2013 Splashlight Photobooth Lucie Awards pictures here. 2013 IPA Photographer of the Year Brooks Kraft accepting his Lucie onstage at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall. © Robert Leslie. See all of the IPA Finalists work here. Photographer and presenter Wayne Lawrence with Lauren Wendle, VP and Publisher of Photo District News pre-show. ©Robert Leslie. See all of the 2013 Lucie Awards Photographs here. See the Lucie Honoree video tribute for Li Zhensheng, Achievement in Documentary Photography below. 2013 Lucie Awards Honoree, Li Zhensheng from Lucie Foundation on Vimeo. View all of the 2013 Lucie Honoree tribute videos here.	Issue 53 - November 2013 In This Issue: 11th ANNUAL LUCIE AWARDS RECAP. 2014 LUCIE FOUNDATION EMERGING SCHOLARSHIP OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS DECEMBER 1, 2013. LUCIE FOUNDATION PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT: 2012 APA/LUCIE FOUNDATION PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT DONNA J. WAN. GIVE THE GIFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE HOLIDAYS - SHOP OUR STORE. MESSAGE FROM OUR PARTNERS

	2014 LUCIE FOUNDATION EMERGING SCHOLASHIP OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS DECEMBER 1, 2013. Are you an emerging photographer with a project that needs support? Since 2010, we have granted $30,000.00 through our Scholarship program to eight deserving photographers. We want to see your projects and support you. Consider submitting to the 2014 Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship Program. Submission opens on December 1, 2013. See the 2013 Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship Recipient's work here.

	LUCIE FOUNDATION PROGRAMMING SPOTLIGHT: 2012 APA/LUCIE FOUNDATION PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT DONNA J. WAN. As we wind down the year, we are thrilled to share work completed by Donna J. Wan, recipient of the 2012 APA/Lucie Foundation Professional Scholarship. As a result of the scholarship, she was able to expand upon her body of work, Last Views. "This project is about capturing the last views of people who have purposely traveled to natural places to kill themselves. In 2011 after the birth of my daughter I developed a severe case of postpartum depression and considered taking my own life. I imagined I would drive to the California coast where I could look out onto the magnificent ocean as I jumped off a steep cliff. Since then I have (recovered and) learned that many suicidal people have similar inclinations. They travel near or far to well-known or obscure natural places to end their lives. For many, the last thing they want to see is a beautiful view of the mountain, forest, valley, or water before they kill themselves. There is even a term for such places – “suicide destinations.” Using the funds provided by the APA/Lucie Foundation scholarship grant, I have been travelling to several of these places and walking along the paths these people took as they approached a cliff, crossed a bridge, or neared an ocean before committing suicide. But, instead of documenting the specific whereabouts or structures of these places, I have been taking pictures of the views that these people might have seen before they jumped, poisoned, or hung themselves. I have been purposely photographing from the perspectives of looking up at the sky, down at the water or crags, and straight-ahead but far away. My photographs are meant to capture what I imagine the last views of these landscapes to be for these people and, perhaps, to provide some understanding of why they might have chosen their places and what they might have felt or experienced during their last moments". - Donna Wan. ©Donna J.Wan from Last Views ©Donna J. Wan from Last Views ©Donna J. Wan from Last Views ©Donna J. Wan from Last Views View her scholarship submission here. Learn more about her and her work here.

	GIVE THE GIFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE HOLIDAYS - SHOP OUR STORE. Consider giving the gift of photography for the Holidays from one of OUR Lucie Foundation programs. Proceeds benefit both the artists and our programming. Visit our store here. © Justin Fantl, SNAPSHOP! youth program Instructor. "Untitled" from the Paper Studies Series, 18" x 15". Open Edition. Archival Injet Print. Signed. Includes Certiciate of Authenticity.




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