It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner, Andrew Zou was selected for his project, Gazed Gaze. He is currently working towards a MFA in Photography  at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), to graduate in 2025. The Honorable Mention Winner receives: $250 Cash Award View the rest of The 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize Honorable Mention Winner: Andrew Zou on LENSCRATCH ..read more

It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize 3rd Place Winner, Mehrdad Mirzaie was selected for her project, Imago, and is currently attending  the University of Arizona working towards an MFA. The 3rd Place Winner receives a $500 cash prize, a feature on Lenscratch , a mini exhibition on the Curated Fridge, and View the rest of The 2024 Lenscratch 3rd Place Student Prize Winner: Mehrdad Mirzaie on LENSCRATCH ..read more

It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize 2nd Place Winner, Ariana Gomez was selected for her project, My Mother Speaks of Land as Memory, and recently completed the MFA in Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin. The 2nd Place Winner receives a $750 cash prize, a feature View the rest of The 2024 Lenscratch 2nd Place Student Prize Winner: Ariana Gomez on LENSCRATCH ..read more

It is with pleasure that the jurors announce the 2024 Lenscratch Student Prize 1st Place Winner, Mosfiqur Rahman Johan.  Johan was selected for his project, Memories of Underdevelopment, and is currently attending the Counter Foto Center of Visual Arts in Dhaka, Bangladesh, working towards a two year degree and then an  MFA in Photography. The View the rest of The 2024 Lenscratch 1st Place Student Prize Winner: Mosfiqur Rahman Johan on LENSCRATCH ..read more

Every year, the Lenscratch Student Prize Awards give us an opportunity to celebrate and support the next generation of photographic artists. Hundreds of artists shared their work with us– powerful creative voices that make us truly excited about the future. Before we begin the celebration of our 7 winners tomorrow, we wanted to shine a light on 25 View the rest of Student Prize 2024: Top 25 to Watch on LENSCRATCH ..read more

Over the next three days, Drew Leventhal, the 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize Winner, interviews the Top 3 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners of 2023. He shares a conversation today with Christian K. Lee. Christian K. Lee is a much needed truth-teller in a world full of bad information and faulty narratives. He is never afraid to View the rest of One Year Later: Christian K. Lee on LENSCRATCH ..read more

Over the next three days, Drew Leventhal, the 2022 Lenscratch Student Prize Winner, interviews the Top 3 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners of 2023. He shares a conversation today with Anna Rotty. I had been wanting to talk with Anna Rotty for a long while. We had been dancing in similar circles for the past year View the rest of One Year Later: Anna Rotty on LENSCRATCH ..read more

The Center for Photographic Art and Lenscratch are thrilled to present the 2024 Paula Riff Award to Minwoo Lee! This award was created in honor of a beloved artist, Paula Riff, who elevated the photographic medium by her investigations into color and alternative processes. Paula was an innovator, using lensless photography and historical processes to View the rest of The Paula Riff Award: Minwoo Lee on LENSCRATCH ..read more

Carrie Usmar and Anastasia Sierra use photography to investigate the complexity of motherhood. Both artists highlight the unseen challenges of motherhood while embracing the intimate and tender moments of raising children, using very different formal approaches. In the conversation that follows, the artists discuss making work on motherhood and being artist mothers. Anastasia Sierra (b.1983) View the rest of Anatasia Sierra and Carrie Usmar: Talking Motherhood on LENSCRATCH ..read more

Tom Griggs‘s photo book, A Creature that Obeys a Creature that Wants (2023) chronicles his father’s battle with depression and the artist’s own reflections about inherited family patterns and dynamics. In 128 beautifully sequenced pages, the book ebbs and flows between light and darkness, guiding us through vast emotional and existential territories that invite us View the rest of Tom Griggs: A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants on LENSCRATCH ..read more