Film Photo Award – Spring 2022 Visionary Project Award recipient: Kristina Knipe
©Kristina Knipe, Nike in Ostara Costume at Dawn, from the series Talisman, 2015
Over the coming days, we are excited to present the recipients of the Film Photo Award from the Fall 2021 submission period. Today we celebrate Kristina Knipe, the Film Photo Award Spring 2022 Visionary Project Award recipient.
The Film Photo Award is open to all emerging, established, and student photographers worldwide. Each award period provides three distinct grants of Kodak Professional Film and complimentary film processing by Griffin Editions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century.
Two Visionary Project Awards (100 rolls or 200 sheets of Kodak Professional Film + film processing via Griffin Editions) and one Student Project Award (100 rolls or 200 sheets of Kodak Professional Film + film processing via Griffin Editions + a 4×5 view camera by Standard Cameras) are awarded twice a year during the spring and fall.
Stay tuned for the Fall 2022 call for proposals that will open for submission toward the end of the summer of 2022. For the latest information, follow Film Photo Award on Instagram: @filmphotoaward
Kristina Knipe is an artist and educator who makes photographs, videos, books, and installations. Kristina earned her B.F.A. at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 2012 and her M.F.A. from Tulane University in 2016. She is the 2020 recipient of the Clarence John Laughlin Award. Her work has been exhibited in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, SF Camera Work, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and numerous artist-run collective spaces in New Orleans, Louisiana.
©Kristina Knipe, Antony and Seven Swans, from the series Talisman, 2015
Kristina Knipe is an artist and educator who makes photographs, videos, books, and installations. Through a variety of approaches, her work examines how objects, symbols, spaces and the body function as markers of identity. She considers art making a healing practice, which can catalyze healing with others. Kristina earned her BFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2012 and her MFA from Tulane University in 2016. She is the 2020 recipient of the Clarence John Laughlin Award. Her work has been exhibited in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Contemporary Art Center of NewOrleans, SF Camera Work, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and numerous artist-run collective spaces in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a member of Only Connect Collective and Staple Goods Collective.
Follow her on Instagram: @kristiknipe
©Kristina Knipe, Soleil in Saint Roch Cemetery, from the series Talisman, 2017
©Kristina Knipe, Soleil with Injury from Mardi Gras Day, from the series Talisman, 2017
©Kristina Knipe, Daiquiri with Crawfish, from the series Talisman, 2018
©Kristina Knipe, Mike’s Car, from the series Talisman, 2018
©Kristina Knipe, Erica Magnifying Passionflower, from the series Talisman,2019
©Kristina Knipe, Auryn’s Shack, from the series Talisman, 2020
©Kristina Knipe, Miss Bernadette on Rampart, from the series Talisman, 2020
©Kristina Knipe, Erica’s Lamp, from the series Talisman, 2019
©Kristina Knipe, Jeremy with Angels and Broken Goblets, from the series Talisman, 2019
©Kristina Knipe, Whitney’s 29th Birthday, from the series Talisman, 2015
©Kristina Knipe, Antony and Zachary, from the series Talisman, 2015
©Kristina Knipe, Floral Curtain, from the series Talisman, 2018
©Kristina Knipe, Whit during Quarantine, from the series Talisman, 2021
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![In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, four members of the United Klans of AmericaÑThomas Edwin Blanton Jr.,Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank CherryÑplanted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, close to the basement.
At approximately 10:22 a.m., an anonymous man phoned the 16th Street Baptist Church. The call was answered by the acting Sunday School secretary: a 14-year-old girl named Carolyn Maull. To Maull, the anonymous caller simply said the words, "Three minutes", before terminating the call. Less than one minute later, the bomb exploded as five children were present within the basement assembly, changing into their choir robes in preparation for a sermon entitled "A Love That Forgives". According to one survivor, the explosion shook the entire building and propelled the girls' bodies through the air "like rag dolls".
The explosion blew a hole measuring seven feet in diameter in the church's rear wall, and a crater five feet wide and two feet deep in the ladies' basement lounge, destroying the rear steps to the church and blowing one passing motorist out of his car. Several other cars parked near the site of the blast were destroyed, and windows of properties located more than two blocks from the church were also damaged. All but one of the church's stained-glass windows were destroyed in the explosion. The sole stained-glass window largely undamaged in the explosion depicted Christ leading a group of young children.
Hundreds of individuals, some of them lightly wounded, converged on the church to search the debris for survivors as police erected barricades around the church and several outraged men scuffled with police. An estimated 2,000 black people, many of them hysterical, converged on the scene in the hours following the explosion as the church's pastor, the Reverend John Cross Jr., attempted to placate the crowd by loudly reciting the 23rd Psalm through a bullhorn. One individual who converged on the scene to help search for survivors, Charles Vann, later recollected that he had observed a solitary white man whom he recognized as Robert Edward Chambliss (a known member of the Ku Klux Klan) standing alone and motionless at a barricade. According to Vann's later testimony, Chambliss was standing "looking down toward the church, like a firebug watching his fire".
Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14, born April 18, 1949), Carol Denise McNair (age 11, born November 17, 1951), Carole Robertson (age 14, born April 24, 1949), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14, born April 30, 1949), were killed in the attack. The explosion was so intense that one of the girls' bodies was decapitated and so badly mutilated in the explosion that her body could only be identified through her clothing and a ring, whereas another victim had been killed by a piece of mortar embedded in her skull. The then-pastor of the church, the Reverend John Cross, would recollect in 2001 that the girls' bodies were found "stacked on top of each other, clung together". All four girls were pronounced dead on arrival at the Hillman Emergency Clinic.
More than 20 additional people were injured in the explosion, one of whom was Addie Mae's younger sister, 12-year-old Sarah Collins, who had 21 pieces of glass embedded in her face and was blinded in one eye. In her later recollections of the bombing, Collins would recall that in the moments immediately before the explosion, she had observed her sister, Addie, tying her dress sash.[33] Another sister of Addie Mae Collins, 16-year-old Junie Collins, would later recall that shortly before the explosion, she had been sitting in the basement of the church reading the Bible and had observed Addie Mae Collins tying the dress sash of Carol Denise McNair before she had herself returned upstairs to the ground floor of the church.](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/001-16th-Street-Baptist-Church-Easter-v2-14x14-150x150.jpg)
