The Inge Morath Award

The Inge Morath Award was established by the members of Magnum Photos in tribute to their colleague, who was associated with Magnum for more than fifty years. Funded by the photographers, the Award is administered by the Inge Morath Foundation in cooperation with the Magnum Foundation, New York.

The annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman photographer under thirty years of age, to assist in the completion of a long term documentary project. The winner and finalists are selected by the photographer members of Magnum Photos and a representative of the Morath Foundation at the Magnum annual meeting.

The call for submissions and guidelines are announced annually by The Magnum Foundation and The Inge Morath Foundation on their web sites, usually in January/February. Winners of the Award are announced in July.

Please also see our Magnum in Motion for further information on the Inge Morath Award.

Zhe Chen (China), Winner, for Bees (coming to IM Magazine September 15, 2011)

Lurdes R. Basolí (Spain), Winner, for Caracas, The City of Lost Bullets
Claire Martin (Australia), Winner, for Selections from The Downtown East Side and Slab City.

Emily Schiffer (USA), Winner, for Cheyenne River
Jenn Ackerman (USA), Finalist, for Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons

Kathryn Cook (USA), Winner for Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide
Leone Purchas (UK), Finalist, for In the Shadow of Things
Alice Smeets (Belgium), 2008 Finalist, for Growing Up in Haiti

Olivia Arthur (UK), Winner, for The Middle Distance
Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), Finalist, for Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives Along the Pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey
Newsha Tavakolian (Iran), Finalist, for Iran: Girl Power!

Jessica Dimmock (USA), Winner, for The Ninth Floor
Dana Romanoff (USA), Finalist, for Wife of the God

Mimi Chakarova (USA), Winner, for Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe
Jessica Dimmock (USA), Finalist, for The Ninth Floor
Shannon Taggart (USA), Finalist, for The Spiritualists
Yue Ren (China), Finalist, for Gay Scene in Beijing