KATHRYN COOK WINS INGE MORATH AWARD
Daryl Lang
Photo District News
July 7 2008
NY
The 2008 Inge Morath has been awarded to Kathryn Cook for her project
"Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide."
The award is given annually to a female documentary photographer under
the age of 30 in memory of longtime Magnum photographer Inge Morath,
who died in 2002.
Cook will receive $5,000 in support of her project on the lingering
impact in Turkey from the Armenian massacres of the early 20th
century. In December, Cook won a $25,000 grant from the Aftermath
Foundation to support the same project.
Cook, an American photographer based in Istanbul, has worked for the
Associated Press and for publications including Time and The New York
Times. She was named one of PDN’s 30 last year.
The two finalists for this year’s Inge Morath Award are Leonie Purchas
of the U.K. and Alice Smeets of Belgium.
Last year’s Inge Morath Award winner, Olivia Arthur, was just elected
as a nominee to Magnum Photos.