Krisanne Johnson | 'I Love You Real Fast'
October 15th 2009
Prospekt Photographers is pleased to announce that Krisanne Johnson has been selected to receive the second prize of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanisti Photography 2009.infos on: (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/social-documentary-and-commentary/)
Her project " I love you real fast" had recently gained the 2009 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography.
Krisanne Johnson's project, "I Love You Real Fast", examines the lives of young women in Swaziland, where women have a life expectancy of close to 31, due to the country's high rate of HIV infections "My intent is not only to shed ligth on their struggle, but to present the full spectrum of their experiences and to capture deeper, truer visual references that are distinct from a sea of status quo images that define Africa to most of the world", said Johnson.
link to the project on prospekt website http://www.prospekt.it/reportage.php?id=93
link to krisanne johnson's site
Krisanne (b.1976) studied Visual Communications at Ohio University. After graduation, she interned at US News & World Report where she covered the 2004 US presidential elections and an international story on Ukraine's Orange Revolution. In 2005, she joined the White House as a staff photographer and left
Washington, DC in 2006 to build her freelance career in New York City. She has been working on a long term project about women in Swaziland for the past two years. Her clients include The FADER, The New York Times and US News & World Report. Her work has been awarded by World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and the Best of Photojournalism.
Krisanne Johnson | 'I Love You Real Fast'
15 Ottobre 2009
Krisanne Johnson ha vinto il secondo premio del W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanisti Photography 2009.Recentemente ha ricevuto il Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography - unitamente a un supporto editoriale da parte di Getty Images - per realizzare e completare il suo progetto "I Love You Real Fast".
"I Love You Real Fast" documenta la vita delle giovani donne dello Swaziland, nazione africana in cui l'aspettativa di vita è di soli 31 anni a causa dell'altissimo tasso di mortalità per infezioni da HIV.
"Nelle mie intenzioni" - sostiene Krisanne Johnson - "non c'è solamente la volontà di portare alla luce la lotta di queste donne contro la malattia, ma soprattutto mostrare la totalità delle loro esperienze di vita per documentare iconograficamente le loro esistenze in maniera più profonda e veritiera rispetto a tutta quella serie di immagini preconcette che definiscono l'Africa agli occhi del resto del mondo".