30 For 30: Honoring the Upcoming

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re featuring items from the PWP Archives* each day on this blog. In looking back, we see not only where we started, but how far photography, women, and the world have come since 1975.
Early PWP Student Award winners (clockwise fr upper left: ©M. Tayeh, ©A Arthurs, ©M. Tayeh (2), ©B. Oshodi, ©L. Opoku

Early PWP Student Award winners (clockwise fr upper left: ©M. Tayeh, ©A Arthurs, ©M. Tayeh (2), ©B. Oshodi, ©L. Opoku

In 2005, under President Fran Dickson, PWP developed a Student Awards program to encourage and support young women interested in photography. “Not having a physical location,” she wrote, “we decided to offer cash awards to young women photographers….The program started with junior and seniors in NYC schools and soon expanded to all high school students in the New York metropolitan area.”

Though the development of camera phones allowed for constant casual snaps, the PWP Student Awards helped focus the young photographers’ attention, and gave them the chance, often for the first time, to see their work on a gallery wall.

PWP Student Award winners 2012 (©D. Rubin, ©C. Noskova, ©M. Greenwald)

PWP Student Award winners 2012 (©D. Rubin, ©C. Noskova, ©M. Greenwald)

Many of the early images were black-and-white, but soon exploded into vivid color:

2013 PWP Student Award winning images (©Ana Jaco, ©Ally Hand, ©Ana Jaco)

2013 PWP Student Award winning images (©Ana Jaco, ©Ally Hand, ©Ana Jaco)

2013 PWP Student Award winning images (©Ana Jaco, ©Ally Hand, ©Ana Jaco)

2013 PWP Student Award winning images (©Ana Jaco, ©Ally Hand, ©Ana Jaco)

The reception was always a joyous occasion, filled with pride on the part of the young photographers and their teachers.

PWP Student Awards Ceremony ©Andy Mars

PWP Student Awards Ceremony ©Andy Mars

Poster for PWP Student Awards (includes images ©Robin Craig & ©Andy Mars)

Poster for PWP Student Awards (includes images ©Robin Craig & ©Andy Mars)

– Catherine Kirkpatrick

*The PWP Archives were acquired by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library of Emory University

Links to all the 30 For 30 Women’s History Month blogs:
Help Me Please! Hopelessly Waiting…
Exhibition and Anger
Spreading the Word
Early Ads On Paper
Cards and Letters
A Lady, a Truck, a Singing Dog
Women of Vision
A Show of Their Own
Taking It To the Street
Sisters of Sister Cities
Sold!
Education and More
Face of a Changing City
Digital Enabling
Expanding Walls and Other Possibilities
A Wonderful Life–Lady Style
Branding–the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Great Change Sweeps In
PWP Goes Live!
Honoring the Upcoming
Continuity Through Change
Reaching Out
Eye a Woman Naked
Rapidly Multiplying Alternative Options
Women In the World, As Themselves
Kudos!
Friends Who Overcame and Inspired
Reversing the Gaze
Photography and More
Chicks Telling It Like It Is
Looking Back With Thanks

 

 

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