Counter Histories Grantees Complete Final Presentations

Group photo from day two of final presentations

Congratulations to our Counter Histories grantees on completing their final presentations this week!

Since May, the cohort has worked to develop their projects while coming together as a creative community in interdisciplinary exploration and collaboration, as part of our ongoing Photography Expanded series that experiments with new approaches to visual storytelling. It’s been an honor to share space with this incredible group as they confront official histories, insert alternative narratives, and weave inclusive archives for the future. As guest Lafayette Cruise shared in response to the presentations, "every country is trying to create some way of controlling the past and the present...As much as [these grantee projects] are a counter history, the histories we learn are also counter histories. Photography lets us stare back at this mythology."

Please join us in congratulating the grantees:

Abdo Shanan, Algeria
Adjoa Armah, Ghana / United Kingdom
Agata Szymanska-Medina, Poland
Alan Chin, United States
Alice Proujansky, United States
Andrea Carrillo Iglesias, Mexico / United States
Belhassen Handous, Tunisia
Christopher Gregory-Rivera, Puerto Rico
Claudio Pérez, Chile
Ethel-Ruth Tawe, Cameroon / Netherlands

Jonas N.T. Becker, United States
Mackenzie Calle, United States
Marilyn Nance, United States
Naomieh Jovin, United States
Prasiit Sthapit, Nepal
Qiana Mestrich, United States
Salih Basheer, Sudan
Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Indian-Administered Kashmir
Saodat Ismailova, Uzbekistan
Tamara Abdul Hadi, Canada / Iraq

Thank you and congratulations as well to programs team Emma Raynes and Tif Ng; facilitator Evan Walsh; working group speakers and facilitators Peter Enriquez, Bruce Shapiro, Kristine Khouri, Tao Leigh Goffe, Shimrit Lee, Jessica Clark, Nepal Picture Library, Sim Chi Yin, Teun Van Der Heijden, Lafayette Cruise, Pola Dobrzynski, and Jazmine Dior Johnson; mentors Mengwen Cao, Edmund Clark, and Soren Pagter; application reviewers Tricia Kim and Heba Hage-Felder; and our advisors Omar Berrada, Mengwen Cao, Jill Casid, Stephanie Dinkins, Michael Famighetti, Noelle Flores Théard, Kate Fowler, Ariel Goldberg, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Patricia Eunji Kim, Andrew Kircher, Ari Melenciano, Oluremi Onabanjo, Prerana Reddy, and Mark Sealy.

We look forward to sharing more from the projects in the coming months!