Eugene Smith – Pride Street is one of many images available to buy
For the first time in its 41-year history, the W. Eugene SmithMemorial Fund will host an online print sale now through Dec. 14, 2020. The collection of prints was donated by past recipients, fellows, and finalists of the annual Smith Grant over the past 10 years. Prints from 58 internationally renowned photographers including Stephanie Sinclair, Ami Vitale, Nanna Heitman, Bharat Choudhary, and Robin Hammond will be available for purchase at Smith Fund 2020 Print Sale. Included with the print collection is Eugene Smith’s famous “Pride Street” photograph, which was donated by Kevin Smith on behalf of W. Eugene Smith’s estate. All net proceeds from the sale will be used toward the Fund’s 2021 grants and fellowships.
All prints are unsigned, open editions produced as 11×14-inch archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper and priced at $150.00 each. Prints will ship in late December from New York and include a certificate of authenticity.
“We are excited and deeply grateful to present our first ever, online print sale thanks to past Smith Fund grant recipients and finalists,” said Phil Block, president of the W. Eugene Smith Fund. “This is an opportunity for art lovers and collectors to purchase exceptional photographs from some of the world’s most renowned photojournalists and documentary photographers while helping the Smith Fund continue its mission to financially support documentary photographers worldwide and give them a platform to share their incredible stories.”
Since its inception in 1979, the W. Eugene Smith Fund has awarded more than $1 million to documentary photographers who are dedicated to telling stories with passion, persistence, and perseverance. Photographs from this year’s recipients are also represented in the Smith Fund Print Sale.
Jasmin (wearing red) and Manisha Singh (white and blue sari) pose at the Baoli at Amer, a water well in the city of Japiur in India’s Rajasthan Thar desert. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
Two 烋ew� child Hongkongers playing outside a shack on the rooftop. The identity crisis of Hong Kong people gradually surfaced after the reunification. Family members of previous generations are often directly, or indirectly related to the China Great Escape. The identity of “old immigrants” that took root here conflicts with that of 烋ew Hongkongers”. Based on reports, Hong Kong’s super-wealthy has enjoyed the benefits from the increased investment from the mainland, especially in property, although the huge influx of money from the mainland have raised the costs of living for most people in the city while its income inequality continue to rise. The Gini coefficient reached the highest in 45 years in 2016, indicating an increasing wealth gap. Hong Kong has been ranked the city with the highest housing prices in the world. Housing has become the most important issue facing the people of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong was promised �50 years of changelessness衭a transformative and unique indicator for its transition. Every day since the handover, society has been infiltrated with minute changes that cannot expressed, ranging from the development of hardware, to the rise and fall of ideologies. Instead of outlining history, this work aims to document transitions in different facets of society, from singing “God Save the Queen” (the national anthem of British Hong Kong) to humming “people are slaves no more” (lyrics from the Chinese national anthem); from being old migrants to becoming new Hongkongers; and from making money as property agents to gaining power as rural landlords. This body of work is created to portray a wandering status of Hong Kong峹eferencing Beijing, and the ghosts of uncertainty that haunt the journey ahead.
Qayyara, Iraq, November 9th 2016 – During the battle to retake the city of Mosul a cloud of oil smoke has covered the city for months. The oil town has been the object of intense fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State. Before retiring, Isis set fire to refineries in the city, creating an environmental disaster.
Ph.Giulio Piscitelli
Abkhazia, Duripsch village, 09/05/2016. Etluhov Islam (38) is celebrating his victory in the horse racing. Important horse racing and national sports such as horse-football take place twice a year in Abkhazia: on May 9th (also known as a Victory Day in the USSR that celebrates the end of the WWII) and September 30th (Georgian-Abkhazian war).
Almaz, 24, Project Coordiantor for an Artists Foundation. From Lagos. Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. 21/08/13
“Lagos is very bubbly society, it’s a lovely city. It’s not too much infrastructure but it’s somewhere where you can make things happen. So if you want to make something happen really, really bad, come to Lagos it will happen, trust me.”
Lagos, Nigeria. Photo Robin Hammond/NOOR
