2013

Since 1985 ICP's Infinity Awards have brought attention to outstanding achievements in photography. The 2013 Infinity Awards films serve as a portrait of some of the important contributors to photography today.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award-winning actor. He is also an accomplished photographer. He's been taking pictures on the set of his movies for more than 30 years, capturing intimate and surprising behind-the-scenes moments.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Special Presentation - Jeff Bridges

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

Blurring the line between subjects and friends, Kitra Cahana captures a rare level of intimacy with her subjects. As a documentary photographer, her images explore anthropological, social and spiritual themes through a human perspective.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Young Photographer - Kitra Cahana

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

As a photographer, Erik Madigan Heck does not differentiate between art and fashion in his work. Adhering to no rules, embracing his fears and seeing endless possibilities, Heck creates images people remember.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography - Erik Madigan Heck

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

Looking, and trusting in that act alone, Mishka Henner explores photography as an appropriation artist. Through new and alternative technology, Henner inspects art from the past while innovating in the present.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Art - Mishka Henner

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

David Goldblatt spent his life documenting apartheid in South Africa. While many photographers chased mass demonstrations and violent rebellions, Goldblatt focused on the cultural values that led to more than 40 years of repression.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement - David Goldblatt

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

Surreal and mysterious, North Korea was a black hole to outsiders wanting a glimpse of the country. That all changed in 2012, when AP photographer David Guttenfelder led the opening of the bureau's newest office inside the North Korea.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Photojournalism - David Guttenfelder

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

The idea of an African space program may sound funny to some, but not to Cristina de Middel. Through a mix of fact and fiction, de Middel forces viewers to reinterpret a 1960s space program in Zambia in her photobook, The Afronauts.

2013 ICP Infinity Awards: Publication - Cristina de Middel

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

Pat Schoenfeld, 2013 ICP Trustees Award recipient and last remaining member of ICP's original staff, shares stories from ICP's earliest days and reflects on her continued involvement--though in a different capacity--nearly 40 years later.

2013 Recipient for the ICP Trustee Award: Pat Schoenfeld

for International Center of Photography and Harbers Family Foundation

Lourdes Pilco is a middle-aged woman who’s spent most of her life working backbreaking jobs for little money. With the help of CARE, Lourdes was able to send her children to school while setting a new standard for women in her community.

for CARE, Ripple Effect Images and Harbers Family Foundation

An overview of motion design in past projects.

2013 Motion Design Reel

for Various Clients

2012

After 30 years of civil war, the Angolan people live with daily reminders of conflict. 10 million mines and vast amounts of unexploded ordnance litter the ground, making every step a potentially life-threatening decision.

Surviving the Peace: Angola

for MAG America

Southern Yemen is a battlefield. I Know Where I’m Going follows ICRC representative Hussein Saleh as he works to ensure that the organization can provide aid to the victims of the conflicts that grip this dangerous and volatile region.

I Know Where I’m Going

for International Committee of the Red Cross

An exhibition of the acclaimed sports photography of World Press photographer, Tomasz Gudzowaty.

Beyond the Body

for World Press Photo

Forests are an integral part of our lives and our future. But unless we can see them as more than an environmental issue, their future may be in jeopardy.

Finding Balance

for United Nations Forum on Forests

Resetting the Table takes a unique, personal look at the impact Starbucks’ Create Jobs for USA program has had on the American Mug & Stein pottery facility in East Liverpool, Ohio.

Resetting the Table

She Looks Back, funded by the American Institutes for Research, explores the state of girls education in Liberia. The film tracks two girls as they face challenges, which stem from years of civil war, as well as gender-based discrimination.

for American Institutes for Research

2011

Weathering Change follows women in Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru as they struggle to care for their families while enduring crop failures and water scarcity.

Weathering Change

for Population Action International

Surviving the Peace: Laos takes an intimate look at the impact of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam war in Laos and profiles the dangerous, yet life saving work, that MAG has undertaken in the country.

Surviving the Peace: Laos

for MAG America

Ron Israeli, MD, began a life cast project as an extension of his holistic approach to breast reconstruction. Lucienne Colombo tells the story of one patient's experience from diagnosis through seeing her life cast for the first time.

for Ron Israeli, MD

Twenties and Money takes an in depth look at the lifestyle and spending habits of Emma, a 27 year old copy writer living in Connecticut.

Twenties and Money

for Y&R

Drawing on the insights of more than twenty-five leading analysts, government officials, and journalists, Crisis Guide: Iran explores the issues and challenges faced by Iran, and offers a range of expert opinions on the policy options for addressing them.

Crisis Guide: Iran

for Council on Foreign Relations

Following the lives of four refugees and how separation from loved ones has shaped their existence, “Lost and Found: The Story of Refugees United” is a journey into the hardships so many families must endure as they seek to reconnect.

for Refugees United

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund was created in 1979 to honor the memory of W. Eugene Smith, an American master photo essayist and journalist, by giving an annual production grant in documentary photography.

W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Website

for W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund

Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist, Deanne Fitzmaurice, films and photographs a young soccer player for Team Up for Youth, an after school sports and mentoring program.

Team-Up for Youth

for Team-Up for Youth

Through the Origin Experience, Starbucks has taken groups of their partners to Costa Rica, Sumatra, Indonesia and Tanzania, Africa to experience first-hand the incredible hard work and passion that goes into each pound of coffee they sell.

The Starbucks Origin Experience

On April 20, 2010 an explosion tore through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico. It was, by any standard, a catastrophe.

for Oil Spill Commission

2010

Portraits of Heroes at Home follows Pulitzer Prize Winning photojournalist John Moore as he creates portraits of four soldiers, and learns of their harrowing injuries on the battlefield and their remarkable stories of physical and mental recovery.

Portraits of Heroes at Home

We need more food and we need it now. To meet the food needs of the 21st Century the nations of the world must make it easy to live and prosper and rural areas. Moravavy Seraphine and her daughter Maria are examples of what's at stake.

How Will We Feed Them?

for International Fund for Agricultural Development

As temperatures rise and water supplies dry up, semi-nomadic tribes along the Kenyan-Ethiopian border increasingly are coming into conflict. When the Water Ends focuses on how the worsening drought will pit groups and nations against one another.

When the Water Ends

for Yale Environment 360

Pakistan's stability is of great consequence to regional and international security. Crisis Guide: Pakistan examines the roots of its challenges, what it means for the region and the world, and explores some plausible futures for the country.

Crisis Guide: Pakistan

for Council on Foreign Relations

In India, all women must confront the cultural pressure to bear a son. The consequences of this preference is a disregard for the lives of women and girls. From birth until death they face a constant threat of violence.

for Alexia Foundation

24,000 children under the age of five will die today, many from preventable diseases. In 2009, Save the Children launched the EVERY ONE campaign to work directly with individuals, communities and governments to stem this tide of child mortality.

for Save the Children

Ethiopia has one of the highest child marriage rates in the world. In response, the United Nations Foundation has established educational programs that put girls and women through school, and challenge traditional thinking on child marriage.

A Lasting Impact

for United Nations Foundation

Snowbound explores the mystery of a winter landscape. This journey may lead one to discover a sense of peace in an often uncharted world.

Papua New Guinea is home to one of the largest expanses of rainforest on Earth. Many of the Paupan people rely entirely on their relationship to the natural world in order to survive. But environmental exploitation has put their existence at risk.

The Price of Progress

In many countries, girls as young as eight are forced into marriage by their families, culture and economic situation. This practice destroys their chance at education leading to tragic results.

The Bride Price

for International Center for Research on Women

The Nuclear Energy Guide explores the past, present and future of nuclear power, focusing on its unique benefits and risks.

Nuclear Energy Guide

for Council on Foreign Relations

2009

Combining imagery by Reuters photojournalists with eyewitness testimony and interactive graphics, Surviving the Tsunami reveals the strength of the human spirit in the face of catastrophe.

Surviving the Tsunami

for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Thomson Reuters Foundation

On Thinner Ice looks at the impact of how the melting Himalayan Glaciers will impact over 2 billion downstream Asian users and the world.

for Asia Society

Leveling Appalachia offers a first-hand look at mountaintop removal mining and what is at stake for Appalachia's environment and its people.

Leveling Appalachia

for Yale Environment 360

In Times of Crisis, Reuters charts 365 days of global financial upheaval to see how lives have changed as a divergent world embarks on an era of historic challenge.

Times of Crisis

for Thomson Reuters

Life, death and the Taliban is a special report that seeks to enhance America's understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Life, death and the Taliban

Visions of Excellence is a presentation of work from the 66th annual Pictures of the Year International Competition.

Visions of Excellence

for Pictures of the Year International

Crisis Guide: The Global Economy explores how the 2008 financial crisis came about and what it might mean for business and international affairs in decades to come.

Crisis Guide: The Global Economy

for Council on Foreign Relations

The Global Governance Monitor tracks, maps, and evaluages multilateral efforts to address today's global challenges.

Global Governance Monitor

for Council on Foreign Relations

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) aims to strengthen governance by improving transparency and accountability in the extractives sector.

Making Resources Work for People

for Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

2008

The power of 10,000 shows the impact 10,000 Starbucks Partners had on New Orleans when they visited the city in 2008 for five days of community volunteer work and leadership training.

The power of 10,000

Life isn't just hard in eastern Congo: this region is in critical condition. And things aren't getting any better. Condition: Critical tells the stories of the people affected by this long-raging war.

Condition: Critical

for Médecins Sans Frontières

A Climate for Life looks at the results of climate change on our planet, tracing these effects from the poles to the tropics and examining how those diverse regions are interconnected.

A Climate for Life

for Conservation International, International League of Conservation Photographers and Harbers Family Foundation

Crisis Guide: Climate Change looks at the known effects of climate change, the diplomatic dilemmas, the relevant technologies and policy options, and the diverse perspectives on the problem.

Crisis Guide: Climate Change

for Council on Foreign Relations

Forty-five years after Martin Luther King called on America to live out the true meaning of its creed - that all men are created equal - a senator from Illinois becomes the first African-American nominee of a major political party.

At last, at last, a dream fulfilled

for Rocky Mountain News

Clearing the Air looks at the problem of Beijing's poor air quality and the efforts to clean it up.

Clearing the Air

for Asia Society

Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa.

Curse of the Black Gold

for Talking Eyes Media

Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict integrates a comprehensive array of audio, video, imagery, and text, to offers an in-depth look at the history of the conflict and its geopolitical repercussions.

Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

for Council on Foreign Relations

Bearing Witness is the story of the team of 100 Reuters correspondents, photographers, cameramen and support staff, striving to bring the world news from the most dangerous country for the press.

Bearing Witness

for Thomson Reuters

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster chronicles the struggles and triumphs of Gulf Coast residents since the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster

for Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network

2007

Abuse Aware features photographer Donna Ferrato's prolific documentary of domestic violence victims and families from her body of work, Living With the Enemy as well as its video production by MediaStorm.

Living Without the Enemy

for Abuse Aware

Photographers Michael Nichols and Brent Stirton explain the significance of the recent gorilla massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Gorilla Massacre

for National Geographic

The Marlboro Marine is a three part series produced for the Los Angeles Times, that tells the story behind Luis Sinco's photograph of soldier James Blake Miller and his struggle as he tries to rebuild his life after a tour of duty.

The Marlboro Marine

for Los Angeles Times

Crisis Guide: Darfur is the second in a series of interactive guides to the most complex issues and conflicts on the planet.

Crisis Guide: Darfur

for Council on Foreign Relations

A Soldier's Boy chronicles the parents of a fallen soldier as they struggle to raise the young son she left behind without the financial benefit the government normally gives to next-of-kin.

A Soldier's Boy

for AARP

Zakouma National Park in southeastern Chad is home to one of the world's largest remaining concentrations of elephants. Despite a history of slavery, colonialism, and civil war, conservationists have managed to create a wildlife refuge here.

for National Geographic

Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula provides comprehensive background information on the Korean crisis and is driven by in-depth reporting via CFR experts.

Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula

for Council on Foreign Relations

A Change of Heart tells the story of one man's total artificial heart transplant. This multimedia piece, with images by Robert Clark, is one element of National Geographic's comprehensive feature project entitled Mending Broken Hearts.

A Change of Heart

for National Geographic

2006

Blighted Homeland is a four-part multimedia series on the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation, produced with Gail Fisher for the Los Angeles Times.

Blighted Homeland

for Los Angeles Times

Twenty million Americans are faced with caring for both aging parents and young children. In The Sandwich Generation, one family exposes with unflinching candor its emotionally charged account of family caregiving.

The Sandwich Generation: Caught in the Middle

Got milkmen? Just a few decades ago, glass milk bottles clinking in the chute signaled the start of a fresh day. Today only a few diehard local dairies still deliver to your doorstep.

Vanishing Americana

There's new meaning to life after work in this latest generation of dream towns.

Life after Work

Take 3 follows the journey of two women who take different paths In their quest to stay forever young.

Forever Young: Searching for an elixir of youth

2005

A multimedia look at the decade of social, political and cultural upheaval, and how events from that era continue to influence today's generation.

The '60s Kids, Part 1: Say You Want a Revolution