Katie Orlinsky is the $10,000 recipient of the 2011 POYi Emerging Vision Incentive for her project proposal on the violent impact of Mexico's war against drug trafficking on women and families.
Orlinsky is a freelance photojournalist based in New York and is currently a fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. Her project proposal included 20 "first take" photographs that look at the violence to families living in the border cities of Mexico, such as Ciudad Juarez. "Mexico's drug war is more than an armed conflict. It is a humanitarian crisis that has changed the lives of countless innocent people. The total drug war death toll has now reached 30,000 consequences," says Orlinsky.
POYi's Emerging Vision Incentive will provide Orlinksy with the opportunity to develop her story and document the topic during the next year. The goal of the Emerging Vision program is to support and promote documentary work on social issues or political trends by aspiring documentary photographers. POYi selects one recipient each year to receive up to $10,000 to assist in developing a photo story that reflects daily life, social issues, cultural trends, or news events.
In addition, two selected finalists will each receive $3,000 in funding to continue their projects. This year's finalists are Sebastian Liste, "Urban Quilombo: Hope and despair of 130 families of the Barreto community of Brazil," and Andri Tambunan, "Against All Odds: HIV/AIDS epidemic of Indigenous Papuans."
The written proposals and initial photographs by the recipient and two finalists may be viewed online at http://www.poyi.org/.
The POYi Emerging Vision Incentive program is made possible through financial support from the Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Space for Photography. POYi is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI). For more information on the Emerging Vision Inventive or POYi, contact Rick Shaw.
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