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The 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner: Natalie Arrué
©Natalie Arrué, Marriage
It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner, Natalie Arrué.
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The 2024 Lenscratch 1st Place Student Prize Winner: Mosfiqur Rahman Johan
©Mosfiqur Rahman Johan, A significant portion of the country’s GDP is spent on mega projects by the government.
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The Paula Riff Award: Minwoo Lee
©Minwoo Lee
The Center for Photographic Art and Lenscratch are thrilled to present the 2024 Paula Riff Award to Minwoo Lee! This award was created in honor of a beloved artist, Paula Riff
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Anastasia Sierra and Carrie Usmar: Talking Motherhood
© Anastasia Sierra, Safe Place, 2021
Carrie Usmar and Anastasia Sierra use photography to investigate the complexity of motherhood.
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Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space
Tyler Mitchell (American, born 1995), A Glorious Wedding (And Blessings to Come), 2021, archival pigment print, courtesy of the artist. © Tyler Mitchell.
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Lana Z Caplan: Oceano (for seven generations)
©Lana Z Caplan, Cover of Oceano (for seven generations), published by Kehrer Verlag
Through these stories, the book Oceano (for seven generations) offers both an interrogation of photogra
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Maria Mavropoulou: Imagined Images
©Maria Mavropoulou, a studio portrait of a married couple, Istanbul 1930’s, from Imagined Images
“The family album is like a memory blueprint, a visual document that proves things
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Deanna Dikeman: Relative Moments
©Deanna Dikeman, from Relative Moments
I have always loved Deanna Dikeman’s decades long chronicling of her Iowa family.
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Rich Frishman: Ghosts of Segregation: Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
©Rich Frishman, Cover of Ghosts of Segregation
Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for 
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Raymond Thompson, Jr.: Appalachian Ghost
©Raymond Thompson Jr, Cover of Appalachian Ghost, published by the University Press of Kentucky
I first discovered the work of Raymond Thompson Jr.
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Holly Roberts: Storyteller
©Holly Roberts, Angry Face, 2021
The Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art (MOPA@SDMA) recently opened Storyteller: Work by Holly Roberts.
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Aimee McCrory: Roller Coaster. Scenes from a Marriage
©Aimee McCrory, Flash, from Roller Coaster, Scenes from a Marriage published by Kehrer Verlag
The pulse of McCrory’s Roller Coaster courses through a multi-chambered heart.










