RECIPIENTS:

FORD GILBREATH MARTIN WEBER

JURORS:

PHILIP BROOKMAN
Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

GARY HESSE
Director of the RayKo Photo Center and Gallery, San Francisco

ANNE WILKES TUCKER
Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

FORD GILBREATH lives and works in Seatlle, WA. His imagery has consistently and creatively addressed the landscape of the Northwest from a perspective that is mindful of its spiritual past, its functional present, and its uncertain future. He pairs this awareness with an abiding interest in technique and technology that embraces such wide-ranging processes as stereography, hand-colored images, and direct scans in the landscape using a laptop computer and portable flatbed scanner.

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MARTIN WEBER is an Argentinian artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Weber has exhibited internationally, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1998), two Hasselblad Grants (1999 and 2001), and a grant from the Prince Claus Fund (2004). In awarding Weber the 2005 No Strings Foundation Grant, the jury noted his sensitive and evocative use of portraiture as well as his consistently intelligent and poignant explorations of cultural and political identity.