Light Work : Grants

Light Work Grant Recipients & Judges
1975 to Current

The Light Work Grants in Photography program was established in 1975 to support photographers, critics, and photo-historians in Central New York. The grants are awarded to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship. The work of the grant recipients is exhibited at Light Work and reproduced in our publication Contact Sheet.

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2011
RECIPIENTS: Neil Chowdhury, Danielle Mericle, and Ahndraya Parlato
Judges: Adam Magyar, Tate Shaw, and Michael Tummings

2010
RECIPIENTS: Yasser Aggour, Ron Jude, and Lida Suchy
Judges: Sharon Bates, Shawn Records, and Brian Ulrich

2009
RECIPIENTS: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, Stephen Shaner
Judges: Richard Gray, Gina Murtagh, Demetrius Oliver

2008
RECIPIENTS: Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, Nancy Keefe Rhodes
Judges: Dennis DeHart, Cristina Fraire, John Clark Mayden

2007
RECIPIENTS: Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, David Moore
Judges: Myra Greene, Keith Johnson, Angelika Rinnhofer

2006
RECIPIENTS: Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, Rishi Singhal
Judges: Lonnie Graham, Lisa Robinson, Marni Shindelman

2005
RECIPIENTS: Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, Stephen Skopik
Director’s Choice Award: Dale Pierce, Gary Walts
Judges: Kanako Sasaki, Martin Kollár, Katharine Kreisher

2004
RECIPIENTS: Barry Perlus, Harry Littell & Lois Barden, Mark Hemendinger
Judges: Chris Burnett, Lauren Tent, Alex Harsley

2003
RECIPIENTS: John Dowling, Rhea Green, Wilka Roig
Judges: Deborah Jack, Julio Grinblatt, Sunil Gupta

2002
RECIPIENTS: Vivian Babuts, Julie Magura, JP Crangle & Chad Reagan
Judges: Alessandra Sanguinetti, Martin Weber, Ariel Shanberg

2001
RECIPIENTS: Sylvia de Swaan, Ron Jude, Kim Waale
Judges: Lori Nix, Iosif Kiraly

2000
RECIPIENTS: Michael Patrick Demmy, Doug DuBois, Carol Golemboski
Judges: Vincent Cianni, Dinh Q. Lê

1999
RECIPIENTS: David Moore, Karen La Vallee Norton, Thomas Piche Jr.
Judges: Ingrid Pollard, Lewis Watts, Keith Johnson

1998
RECIPIENTS: Mike Greenlar, Dede Hatch, Janice Levy
Judges: Bill Gaskins, Margaret Stratton, Bill McDowell

1997
RECIPIENTS: Mark Alice Durant, Mary Beth Heffernan, Mary Warner Marien
Judges: Therese Mulligan, Robert Flynt

1996
RECIPIENTS: Vincent Borrelli, Gina Murtagh, Adrienne Salinger
Judges: Gail Nicholson, Rick Hock, Deborah Bright

1995
RECIPIENTS: Brett Booth, Sarah Cunningham, Linn Underhill, Emile Wamsteker
Judges: Bob Hirsch, Nathan Lyons, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

1994
RECIPIENTS: Brantley Carroll, Rhea Green, David Moore, Diane Nerwen
Judges: Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Coco Fusco, Patti Ambrogi

1993
RECIPIENTS: Eleanor Hassett, Heidi Kumao, Stephen Skopik
Judges: Kerry Coppin, Bob Hirsch, Lynne Love

1992
RECIPIENTS: Sherry Chayat, Sylvia de Swaan, Michael Greenlar, Allyn Stewart
Judges: Gail Nicholson, Detlef Henrichs

1991
RECIPIENTS: Laura Cano Blanco, Darrell Matsumoto, Jon Reis, William Staffield
Judges: Karl Beveridge, Hilton Braithwaite, Carole Conde

1990
RECIPIENTS: Vincent Borrelli, Nancy Conchar, Jason Mahshie, Christian Sunde
Judges: Marion Faller, Sydney Waller, James Wyman

1989
RECIPIENTS: Thirza Devlin, Stephen Mahan III, Mary Warner Marien, Adrienne Salinger
Judges: Francois Deschamps, Lorraine Kenny, John Wood

1988
RECIPIENTS: Courtney Frisse, Marie Parsons, Roderick L. Sutton, Bruce Wrighton
Judges: Mona Jimenez, April Hickox, Tyrone Georgiou

1987
RECIPIENTS: Luke Buffenmyer, Margaret Fabrizio, Jeff Koch, Priscilla Smith
Judges: Tony Bannon, Scott McCarney, Colleen Kenyon

1986
RECIPIENTS: Tom Brown, Kathy Morris, Doug Prince, Lynn Schwarzer
Judges: Cheryl Brutvan, Ginna Moseson, Roger Freeman

1985
RECIPIENTS: Rita Deierlein, John Fuller, Rosemarie Imhoff, Keith Tishken
Judges: Brian Ogelsbee, David Trend, Kathleen Kenyon

1984
RECIPIENTS: Delia Hatch Baroni, Ellen M. Blalock, Monte Gerlach, Don Tracy
Judges: Robin Dodds, Nancy Gonchar, Roger Williams

1983
RECIPIENTS: Jane Bair, John Knecht, Lorna Lentini, Laurie Sieverts Snyder
Judges: Gary Nickard, Don Russell, Judy Natal

1982
RECIPIENTS: Susan Brodie, Michael Davis, Ted Diamond, Janice Giarracco, David Moore
Judges: Martin Benjamin, Susan Shaw, Christina Yuin

1981
RECIPIENTS: F-Stop Fitzgerald (aka Richard Minissali), Robert Foster, Paul Pearce, Jane Steverwald
Judges: Bonnie Gordon, Rick Hock, Biff Henrich

1980
RECIPIENTS: Dean Abramson, Jeffrey Hoone, Marian Roth, Karen Vournans
Judges: Robert Bretz, Kathy Collins, Colleen Kenyon

1979
RECIPIENTS: Judy Ivry, Jon Reis, Marjorie Tepper, James Thorpe
Judges: Bob Hower, Michaela Murphy, Joel Swartz

1978
RECIPIENTS: David Broda, Mima Cataldo, Lucinda Devlin, Richard Laughlin

1977
RECIPIENTS: Sylvia de Swaan-Ames, Peter Glendinning, Ken Hobart, The Idyllic Foundation
Judges: Helen Brunner, Jill Freedman, Cal Kowal

1976
RECIPIENTS: Cecil Dorman, Marion Faller, Jules Fried, Rita Hammond
Judges: Ron MacNeill, Melissa Shook, Jeffrey Silverthorne

1975
RECIPIENTS: Karl Baden, Ben Levine, Warren Wheeler

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