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2013 LUCIE AWARDS NEARLY SOLD OUT- GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! This year's Lucie Awards are destined to be a spectacular evening celebrating the incredible roster of 2013 Lucie Awards Honorees at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. The Lucies will also acknowledge the year's best in photography through the six Support Category Awards. Additionally, the top 4 winners of our sister-effort The International Photography Awards competition will be revealed. The Lucie Awards celebration speaks directly to our mission : to honor master photographers, to discover and cultivate emerging talent and promote the appreciation of photography. We hope you will join us for this wonderful celebration. |
 
Issue 52 - October 2013 In This Issue:
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OFFICIAL EVENTS OF LUCIE WEEK - ARTISTS TALKS, EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR AND THE 2013 IPA BEST OF SHOW EXHIBITION.
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ANNOUNCING THE 2013 APA/LUCIE FOUNDATION PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT We are excited to announce this year's recipient of the 2013 APA/Lucie Foundation Professional Scholarship Prize, New York-based photographer and researcher Elizabeth D. Herman. APA will present her with the scholarship at the forthcoming Lucies. Congratulations Ms. Herman. And, thank you to all those that applied for the scholarship. The work was truly oustanding this year.
In contrast to the other countries represented in A Woman's War, women in the U.S. have only been allowed on the frontlines in recent years—officially permitted to hold combat roles this year with a landmark shift in Pentagon policy. Though hundreds of thousands of additional positions will now be officially open to women, they have already faced the same stresses of trauma and redeployment as their male counterparts in Afghanistan and Iraq for the past decade. For many women, war is not solely against the enemy; an Institute of Medicine study found that 45% of female troops reported military sexual trauma. Upon returning home, they've found a profound lack in counseling and medical services, and an intense pressure to withhold the identities of their attackers. Furthermore, while rates of homelessness among American veterans have been decreasing on the whole, from 75,609 in 2009 to 62,619 in 2012, female veterans now constitute a larger percentage of that population than ever before at roughly 10%. The incidence of military sexual trauma among homeless female veterans is significantly greater, with 53% reporting some form of sexual trauma. These violations of human rights are significantly under-documented; the APA/Lucie Foundation Scholarship will provide the opportunity to expose this issue with photographic documentation of the female soldiers who served their country and now must cope with the aftermath of their service. American Photographic Artists and Lucie Foundation are proud to support this project. Congratulations to Ms. Herman. See her entire submission and learn more about her here. |
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This year's 2013 IPA Best of Show was generously printed by our friends at Contact and they have a special offer for you. We hope you take full advantage. And, if you are in NYC, see the printing for yourself at the IPA Best of Show on October 26, at Splashlight Studios (see above).
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The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c) 3 non-profit, charitable foundation whose mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide. www.luciefoundation.org |
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