PhotoPhilanthropy.org Announces Contest Winners

Zoriah Miller has won the grand prize in the professional photography category of PhotoPhilanthropy.org's first Activist Awards competition. He will receive a $5,000 prize for a portfolio of images he shot of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya for the International Rescue Committee.

Other winners included Massimo Dall'Argine and William Daniels, who both won $2,500 Excellence Awards in the professional category. Ian MacLellan won the $500 grand prize in the student category for his photo essay about the Kenyan operations of Christian Legal Education Aid and Research. Jamie Lloyd and Laura Valencia were recognized for excellence in the student category.

The contest results were announced December 15. PhotoPhilanthropy.org reports that 187 photographers from 30 countries entered a total of 219 photo essays. The entries included 150 essays from professional photographers. The judges included photographers Ken Light, Ed Kashi, Robert Holmes, and Gordon Wiltsie; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art senior curator Sandra S. Phillips; and Susie Tompkins Buell, who was founder and co-owner of the Esprit clothing company.

All contest entries, including the winners, are posted at photophilanthropy.org.

PhotoPhilanthropy's mission is to promote and support photographers working with non-profit organizations world wide. It launched last May with finding from several private individuals and foundations, according to founder and Executive Director Nancy Farese.