Global Awareness: Exhibition of SocialDocumentary.net’s Call for Entries Winners

SocialDocumentary.net is thrilled to announce the five winners of the Call for Entries on Global Awareness. Gwenn Dubourthoumieu from France and Mark Tuschman from the United States are winners of the Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Photography Fellowship Grand Prize. Fausto Podavini from Italy wins the SDN Documentary Prize, and Suvra Kanti Das from Bangladesh and Carol Allen Storey from England are Honorable Mentions.

From a pool of 140 submissions from across the globe, the jurors chose this outstanding work for recognition. The jurors for support of this Call for Entries were:

• Shahidul Alam, Founder, Drik Photo Agency, Bangladesh
• Barbara Ayotte, Director of Strategic Communications, Management Sciences for Health, Boston
• Dimitri Beck, Editor-in-Chief, Polka Magazine, Paris
• Manoocher Deghati, AP Middle East Regional Photo Editor, Cairo
• Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel, Director, Anastasia Photo, New York
• Glenn Ruga, Founder and Director, SocialDocumentary.net, Boston

Mark Tuschman and Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, the MSH Photography Fellowship Grand Prize winners, will each receive a $4,000 honorarium and an expense-paid two-week assignment to document MSH’s global health projects. Fausto Podavini will receive a $1,000 cash award.

“These five exhibits present a complex range of global human themes, from genocide in Rwanda (Carol Allen Storey) to love and aging in Italy (Fausto Podavini)”, said Glenn Ruga, SDN Founder and Director, who served as a judge for the contest. “The other three exhibits fill in the spaces in between with extraordinarily sensitive images by Mark Tuschman on portraits of women from around the world taking control of their lives; Gwenn Dubourthoumieu’s stark images of Turkana Warriors in Kenya; and Suvra Kanti Das’ powerful and gritty black and white images of victims of the worst garment industry disaster in history at the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh.” Ruga concluded, “Photography is an extraordinary medium to learn about the diversity and complexity of the human experience while also reminding us that it is our humanity the unites us.”