2023 Vision Awards

The 2023 Vision Awards will honor four people who have significantly impacted photography and CPW itself. The June 3 celebration will be the first public event at CPW’s future headquarters, the historic G.W. Van Slyke & Horton cigar factory at 25 Dederick Street, Kingston. Long a mainstay of CPW’s programming, reinstating this beloved tradition is a crucial part of CPW’s relaunch in Kingston.

Howard Greenberg – Lifetime Achievement
In 1977, Howard Greenberg co-founded the Catskill Center for Photography in Woodstock (later the Center for Photography at Woodstock), one of the earliest regional spaces for photographers to meet and for photography exhibitions. He later went on to establish the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City in 1981, and for over forty years that gallery has been a leader in presenting photojournalism and other forms of fine art photography.

LaToya Ruby Frazier – Photographer of the Year
LaToya Ruby Frazier is a prominent documentary photographer and activist. At the age of sixteen, she began photographing her family and neighborhood in Braddock Pennsylvania. Her breakout monograph, The Notion of Family (2013), focused on the damaging health effects her family experienced during Braddock’s deindustrialization. Frazier was a Woodstock Artist-in-Residence in 2008 and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

Tommy Kha – Emerging Photographer
Tommy Kha is a contemporary photographer, who works in his hometown, Memphis, TN, and Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Yale University, and was a Woodstock Artist-in-Residence in 2011. Kha was the recipient of a NYFA Photography Fellowship in 2022, and the 2021 Next Step Award, which featured a one-person show at Baxter St at the Camera Club of NY. His monograph Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in 2023.

Wendy Red Star – Photobook of the Year
Wendy Red Star is a visual artist, working primarily in photography, mixed media, sculpture, textiles, and performance. Raised on the Crow reservation in Montana, her work draws deeply on her cultural and personal heritage and ideas surrounding personal and collective identity. Her first comprehensive monograph, Wendy Red Star: Delegation (2022), is an engaging exploration of historical narratives from a feminist, Indigenous perspective.

Legacy 

• Carolyn Marks Blackwood
• Dutton Architecture
• Jeffrey Hoone, Joy of Giving Something 
• Nadine Lemmon & Phil Underdown
• Katharine McKenna
• Artur Walther, The Walther Collection

Sponsor 

• Jim & Mary Ottaway
• MUUS Collection

Leadership 

• Andrew & Marina Lewin
• Sarah Morthland

Benefactor

• Arthur Anderson
• Clinton Cargill & Thanakorn Jirasevijinda
• Heather Croner Real Estate, Sotheby’s International Realty
• W.M. Hunt 
• Dan & Janne Keegan
• Garry & Diane Kvistad
• Pierre & Susana Torruella Leval
• Jeffrey Milstein
• Dion Ogust
• Yancey Richardson
• David Rosenberg & Brian Jacobson
• L. Parker Stephenson & Omar Al-Farisi
• SVN Deegan-Collins Commercial Realty
• Helen Toomer, PHOTOFAIRS NY
• Brian Wallis & Katherine Dieckmann
• Steven Weschler & Whitney Chapman
• Alice Sachs Zimet