Jonas Bendiksen Wins $50,000 National Geographic Grant
By Ryan • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)By Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“The second annual National Geographic magazine photography grant has been awarded to Jonas Bendiksen, a Magnum photographer who is working to document urban population growth.
The grant offers a documentary photographer $50,000 to work on a long-term project. Bendiksen proposed to document the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China that is considered the fastest growing metropolis in the world.
The judges reviewed the photographers existing work as well as their proposals. Bendiksen has covered the growth of urban slums in cities including Mumbai, India and Caracas, Venezuela.
“You can really see that he’s been throwing himself into that particular body of work,” says David Griffin, director of photography for National Geographic.”
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