Kodak Film Grant Recipients Announced

Things have been quite hectic as of late (and not really in the good way). What I thought to be a brief break from posting suddenly turned into a two month hiatus. I have a lot of new things happening at once, including a new apartment which is the main reason for my lack of web presence. However, now that life has begun to calm down a bit and I am plugged back in - I should be able to run a tighter ship!

A while back I posted about the Too Much Chocolate / Kodak film grant. While the aforementioned busyness prevented me from making the deadline to enter the competition, it looks like the recipients (which were announced earlier this month) are a great group of artists and will make great use of the grant. The work of two photographers particularly caught my eye, possibly because I am a sucker for seeing images of places I have never been through the eyes and lenses of someone else.

Anna Beeke of Brooklyn, documents Amsterdam, NY.

"Anna’s project, Amsterdam, New York, is a photographic document of a town in decline, and the life that continues there. It is part topography, part emotional response, and part “portrait of a town” in the classic sense of the photo essay. Much of the project is about physical spaces, occupied and unoccupied: Beeke explores the contrast between Amsterdam’s living and dead spaces, how its residents relate to the physical space of the city, and how their lives are informed by the landscape in which they carry out their daily rituals."


© Anna Beeke

Susan Worsham's, (of Richmond, VA) project, By the Grace of God, "is a series about Worsham’s home, the South, that takes her beyond her backyard, following a southern road, and documents places and characters that she uncovers."


© Susan Worsham

I am excited to see more images from both of these women.

And then there is also Murray Ballard's (of Brighton UK) look at cryonics, which is a fascinating subject in and of itself.


© Murray Ballard

The complete list of recipients as well as more info on the whole thing can be found on the Too Much Chocolate website, or more specifically, here. Be sure to check it out!