Wasting Away

Photographer Chris Jordon explores the debilitating role plastics play in the human and animal environment. The attached video explores an elementary school project based on his images. See the original pictures on Chris' website.

Maximum Grid

APERTURE FOUNDATION Portfolio Prize announcement

All of us at Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted work to the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize. This year, Aperture’s editorial and limited-edition print departments—four staff members and three work scholars in all—reviewed over seven hundred portfolios. Our challenge was to select one top prize and five honorable mentions from this overwhelming response. Thus, we are pleased to present Alexander Gronsky’s The Edge/Pastoral as this year’s winner. 

Congratulations also to Keliy Anderson-Staley, Off the Grid; Alejandro Cartagena, Lost Rivers; Maureen Drennan, Meet Me in the Green Glen; Jason Hanasik, He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore; and Mark Lyon, Landscapes for the People. 

Keliy's work is currently on-view at UCR California Museum of Photography's Digital Studio Gallery.