CENTER Awards — CENTER Santa Fe NM

The CENTER Awards

The CENTER Awards recognize outstanding images, singular or part of a series, in three categories: Personal, Social, and Environmental. We are adding to our database and archive of lens-based work from the last 30 years and invite you to contribute. This archive includes submissions from photographers from all over the world and is available to digital scholars and researchers. All applicant’s work will remain in the CENTER archive, regardless of award status.

A broad and inclusive interpretation of the themes is encouraged:
• The PERSONAL AWARD recognizes work engaging in the exploration and expression of the power of self-representation and/or underrepresented experiences.
• The SOCIALLY ENGAGED AWARD recognizes work addressing social issues. All projects exploring social topics or themes are eligible.
• The ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD recognizes work focusing on the state of the ecological environment. Topics may include but are not limited to, conservation, biodiversity, ecology, climate change, or other issues concerning the natural world. All projects exploring ecological relationships, topics, or themes are eligible.

PROJECT ADVANCEMENT PACKAGE
• Winners Exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
• Review Santa Fe Admission
• Public Project Presentation
• Featured Publication in LENSCRATCH
• Professional Development Seminars
• Inclusion in the CENTER Winners Gallery & Archive

2024 Jurors

Personal Award • Kristen Gresh, Ph.D.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Socially Engaged Award • Noelle Flores Théard

The New Yorker
Environmental Award • Sabine Meyer

National Audubon Society

Kristen Gresh, Ph.D., is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). At the MFA, her exhibitions have included "Life Magazine and the Power of Photography" (co-organized with Princeton University Art Museum), "Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico" and "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World," of which she was the author of the exhibitions’ companion publications. Other publications include "Viewpoints: Photographs from the Howard Greenberg Collection" (2019), and contributions to "Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit" (2021), "The New Woman Behind the Camera" (2020), and "Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes" (2020). Previously, Gresh worked as curator and taught history of photography in Cairo and Paris, where she did her Ph.D. dissertation at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Noelle Flores Théard has been the Senior Digital Photo Editor at The New Yorker since 2021. She was the program officer at Magnum Foundation from 2016 to 2021, and is a co-founder of FotoKonbit, a nonprofit organization created in 2010 to engage and support Haitians telling their own stories through photography.

Sabine Meyer is the Photography Director for the National Audubon Society, where she oversees the conservation’s group visual identity. She has worked for a range of publications and non-profit organizations. Sabine is an affiliate with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and served on the faculty at the School of the International Center of Photography, where she taught photo editing for more than a decade. She also spent seven years as the co-director and curator of Fovea Exhibitions, a Beacon, New York–based nonprofit advocating visual literacy through photojournalism and documentary photography.