Center for Photography at Woodstock Announces
2023 CPW Vision Awards Honorees
Kingston, NY, April 19, 2023– The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) is delighted to announce the recipients of its 2023 CPW Vision Awards. Each of the four honorees has had a significant impact on the field of photography, and on the history of CPW itself. They will be celebrated in person at a dinner event on June 3, in our new headquarters at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston. These are the 2023 CPW Vision Awards:
Lifetime Achievement: Howard Greenberg
Photographer of the Year: LaToya Ruby Frazier
Emerging Photographer: Tommy Kha
Photobook of the Year: Wendy Red Star, “Delegation” (Aperture/ Documentary Arts)
The 2023 Vision Awards will be celebrated at a gala dinner and accompanied by an online benefit auction run by Artsy. The gala will be the first public event at CPW’s future headquarters, the historic Van Slyke & Horton cigar factory at 25 Dederick Street, Kingston.
“We are proud to honor this distinguished group of photographers and photo world luminaries with the 2023 CPW Vision Awards,” said Brian Wallis, CPW Executive Director. “And we are especially pleased that they will be able to join us to celebrate the inauguration of this historic building, and a new chapter in CPW’s growth.”
The CPW Vision Awards have long been a mainstay of the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s programming. Begun in 2004, the awards first honored CPW Executive Director Colleen Kenyon and her sister Kathleen Kenyon, and artist John Dugdale. Reinstating this beloved tradition is a crucial part of CPW’s relaunch in Kingston. In February 2023, CPW acquired a 40,000-square-foot historic building in Kingston’s Midtown Arts District. The 2023 CPW Vision Awards will be the first public event in that space.
Howard Greenberg
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
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
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
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.
About the Center for Photography at Woodstock
Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is a not-for-profit arts organization with a two-fold mission: to support artists working in photography and related media; and to engage audiences through creation, discovery, and learning. At the heart of CPW’s mission is programming that is community-based, artist-centered, and collaborative. To foster public conversation around critical issues in photography, CPW provides exhibitions, workshops, artists’ residencies, and access to a digital media lab. In 2022, CPW relocated from Woodstock to 474 Broadway in Kingston.
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