The Inge Morath Award

The Inge Morath Award was established by the members of Magnum Photos in tribute to their colleague, who was associated with Magnum for more than fifty years. Funded by the photographers, the Award is administered by Magnum Foundation, New York in cooperation with Inge Morath Estate.

The annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman on nonbinary photographer under thirty years of age, to assist in the completion of a long term documentary project. The winner and finalist are selected by the members of Magnum Photos at their Annual General Meeting.

The call for submissions and guidelines are announced annually in February and recipient of the Award are announced in July/August.

Past Recipients:

2024
To be determind

2023
Shirin Abedi (Iran/Germany), Winner, for May I Have This Dance?
Mihaela Aroyo (Bulgaria), Finalist, for Root

2022
Johis Alarcón (Ecuador), Winner, for Because the sun looked at me
Spandita Malik (India), Finalist, for Nā́rī

2021
Fabiola Ferrero (Venezuela), Winner, for I Can’t Hear the Birds
Taniya Sarkar (India), Finalist, for Nothing Left to Call Home

2020
Tamara Merino (US), Winner, for Underland
Neha Hirve (India/Sweden), Finalist, for In a light that is leaving

2019
Alex Potter (US), Winner, for Once a Nation
Kimberly dela Cruz (Philippines), Finalist, for Death of a Nation
Tamara Merino (Chile), Finalist, for Underland
Ioanna Sakellaraki (Greece/UK), Finalist, for The Truth is in the Soil

2018
Melissa Spitz (US), Winner, for You Have Nothing to Worry About
Peyton Fulford (US), Finalist, for Infinite Tenderness
Emily Kinni (US), Finalist, for The Bus Stop

2017
Johanna-Maria Fritz (Germany), Winner, for Like a Bird
Isadora Romero (Ecuador), Finalist, for Amazona Warmikuna

2016
Daniella Zalcman (US), Winner, for Signs of Your Identity
Gabriella Demczuk (US), Finalist, for Baltimore Sings the Blues
Tamara Merino (Chile), Finalist, for Underland

2015
Danielle Villasana (US), Winner, for A Light Inside
Sofia Valiente (US), Finalist for Miracle Village

2014
Shannon Jansen (US), Winner, for A long Walk
Elodie Chrisment (France), Finalist, for Pleasure Places – Paris

2013
No Award given.
Lauren Pond (US), Finalist, for Faith and Its Price

2012
Isadora Kosofsky (US), Winner, for Selections from “The Three” and “This Existence.”
Carlotta Zarattini (Italy), Finalist for The White Building: A Mirror of Cambodia.

2011
Chen Zhe (China), Winner, for Bees.

2010
Lurdes R. Basolí (Spain), Winner, for Caracas, The City of Lost Bullets.
Claire Martin (Australia), Winner, for Selections from The Downtown East Side and Slab City.

2009
Emily Schiffer (US), Winner, for Cheyenne River.
Jenn Ackerman (US), Finalist, for Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons.

2008
Kathryn Cook (US), Winner for Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide.
Leonie Purchas (UK), Finalist, for In the Shadow of Things.
Alice Smeets (Belgium), 2008 Finalist, for Growing Up in Haiti.

2007
Olivia Arthur (UK), Winner, for The Middle Distance.
Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan), Finalist, for Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives Along the Pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Newsha Tavakolian (Iran), Finalist, for Iran: Girl Power!

2006
Jessica Dimmock (US), Winner, for The Ninth Floor.
Dana Romanoff (US), Finalist, for Wife of the God.

2005
Mimi Chakarova (US), Winner, for Sex Trafficking in Eastern Europe.
Jessica Dimmock (US), Finalist, for The Ninth Floor.
Shannon Taggart (US), Finalist, for The Spiritualists.
Yue Ren (China), Finalist, for Gay Scene in Beijing.

2004
Claudia Guadarrama (Mexico), Winner, for Before the Limit.

2003
No Award given.

2002
Ami Vitale (US), Winner for Kashmir.