LONDON (May 5, 2009) – This week photojournalist, filmmaker, writer, and NPPA member Eugene Richards was awarded the Amnesty International Photojournalism Award for his portfolio “No One Much Cares,” an excerpt from his book “A Procession of Them” that ran in Newsweek magazine.
In the essay Richards captured compelling and moving images of patients inside psychiatric institutions in Mexico, Armenia, Paraguay, Hungary, Kosovo, and Argentina, revealing the often inhumane treatment suffered by them. (The book was reviewed by Stephen Wolgast in News Photographer magazine in November 2008).
Richards also recently become a feature contributor with Reportage by Getty Images.
During his remarkable career, Richards has won the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, the Leica Medial of Excellence, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club, three Canon Photo Essayists Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award.
He has also been exhibited in more than 40 solo shows in the United States and abroad. This year, there will be two major exhibitions of his work – “The Blue Room” in Arles, and in Perpignan, his seminal project, “War is Personal.”
