fotodemic grant #001
recipients
Supported by Meero Foundation
the grant
We partnered with Meero Foundation to create a grant open call supporting innovative ideas that challenge conventional storytelling techniques. Our grant sponsors artists who make use of innovative methods that impact the collective consciousness. We looked for proposals that uniquely engage with viewers emotionally, reshape their way of thinking, challenge the status quo, and motivate action. In particular, we were interested in projects that help envision a path to a better future.
The eight artists, selected by FOTODEMIC, will receive: $250 grant, publication on FOTODEMIC.ORG and an editing session and portfolio review with the FOTODEMIC team.
recipients
Bayeté Ross Smith
Btihal Remli
Chinula Mandla
Mahé Elipe
Ramin Nazur
Robert Pluma
Sumeja Tulic
Wanda von Bremen
Bayeté Ross Smith
Our Kind of People examines how an individual’s clothing, ethnicity, gender and skin tone can shape our subjective perceptions of identity, value and character.
Btihal Remli
Djinni Diaries explores the intersection of spirituality and women’s role in Moroccan society through still lives of recipes and ingredients that are used in the magic rituals.
Chinula Mandla
This multimedia piece is about Na Gracious (Gracious’ Mother), a mother of three, from Zimbabwe, filmed during her recovery from a mental condition. Chinula’s experiences with Na Gracious break the stereotype and explore the complexity of mental illness and rehabilitation.
МAHÉ ELIPE
The Other Pandemic focuses on the increase in violence against women during the COVID-19 crisis in Mexico, as well as the people and organizations that support the survivors.
robert pluma
Hidden Histories of San Antonio provides a counter narrative history of Texas, once a part of Mexico and inhabited by many different indigenous peoples. Through an augmented reality application that uses oral histories, still images, and video of living mission descendants and other related materials, this project opens new pathways of storytelling.
Ramin Mazur
Coronascope investigates ‘infodemic’ and the means of communication that covers the impact of Covid-19 pandemic. This project scrutinizes visuals provided by the search engine on inquiries such as “coronavirus” and “Covid-19”. Photographed under a magnifying glass, these images question the way ground breaking events are represented.
Sumeja Tulic
One Unholy Cow: Photographic Plaque as Reparations: The Kravice Wearhouse is an effort to memorialize the unmarked sites of mass killings during the Srebrenica genocide. By marking the seven locations of mass executions on Google maps, Unholy Cow will provide a visual and textual narrative that acknowledges the crimes committed.
Wanda von Bremen
By juxtaposing the common perceptions and dialectics of beauty and decay, Holisis emphasizes the diversity and balance of our ecosystem.