PROJECT STATEMENT
The entrance to the United States is performed through northern Mexico. The Rio Bravo, is defined by a dual status: it is a river and a frontier at the same time. The geographical separation coincides, in the river, with a political division. The Rio Bravo crystallizes and categorizes the frontier between Mexico and the United States. Everything that precedes this line appears, or seems to be constituted, in relation to the frontier. The entrance, in northern Mexico, becomes a place inhabited by those who are waiting, and those who standing still, watch the people crossing the border.
The project, titled Bravo, is an essay that registers persons, objects and architectures of a place that precedes, in suspension, the frontier.
Website: feliperomerobeltran.com
HONORABLE MENTION
- Christine Lenzen, As Long as I’m Alive, I’m Living – Learn More
- Farren van Wyk, Mixedness is my Mythology – Learn More
- Brett Leigh Dicks, Ground Zero: Surveying Australia’s Atomic Legacy – Learn More
JURORS
David Campany
Writer, Curator and Educator
David Campany is a writer, curator and educator. He has worked with many institutions including The International Center of Photography, MoMA New York, the Centre Pompidou and Tate. He is the author of over twenty books including On Photographs 2020, A Handful of Dust 2015, and Art and Photography 2003.
Aldeide Delgado
Women Photographers International Archive, WOPHA, Founder & Director
Aldeide Delgado is the founder and director of Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). She has a background in consulting and presenting at art history forums based on photography including lectures at the Tate Modern, Perez Art Museum Miami, CalArts, and The New School. Delgado is a recipient of a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge, the 2018 School of Art Criticism Fellowship, and a 2017 Research and Production of Critic Essay Fellowship. Her areas of scholarly interest include a feminist and decolonial re-reading of the history of photography and abstraction within Latin American, the Caribbean and Latinx contexts. She is an active member of PAMM’s International Women’s Committee, IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, US Latinx Art Forum, Art Table and the steering committee of the Feminist Art Coalition.
Amanda Hajjar
Founding Director of Exhibitions of Fotografiska New York
Amanda Hajjar is the Founding Director of Exhibitions of Fotografiska New York. Hajjar collaborates with world-renowned artists to bring their exhibitions from initial concept to final reality. Prior to Fotografiska, she worked at Gagosian Gallery where she organized more than 50 exhibitions with artists and their estates. Hajjar graduated with a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
HOW TO APPLY
WHO CAN APPLY:
The Lucie Emerging Scholarships are open to emerging photographers 18 years and older, worldwide. We define “emerging” as any photographer enrolled as a student, in the first five years of their photography career, or does not earn the majority of their income from photography.
The Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship Scholarship is open to both emerging and established photographers.
WHAT IS REQUIRED TO APPLY:
Please read the following information carefully to make sure your application material is complete.
Incomplete applications will not be considered:
- Project Proposal. This proposal should include the following:
- Project Start and End Dates
- 250 Word Description of your project
- Your Plan for completing the project (i.e. how you intend to approach the project and how you intend to use the scholarship money)
- Five Goals that you plan to accomplish while working on the project (e.g. producing 20 new images, making 5 prints, etc.)
- A one-page biography and/or CV
- Twenty digital images
USE & OWNERSHIP:
The photographer must be the sole author and owner of the copyright of photos entered in to the competition. Copyright and all other rights remain that of the photographer. Any photograph used by Lucie Foundation shall carry the photographer’s credit line.