The winner of the 2010 Berenice Abbott prize is Christopher Capozziello of Hamden, Connecticut for his series "For God, Race, and Country" , a project about the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
David Fahey, the owner of the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles was the juror and had this to say :
"The KKK series is already a controversial and volatile subject matter, but it was not picked for those reasons. It was picked from my perspective, because of the photographer’s very oblique approach to the subject matter. It was like the he was a casual observer. That kind of fresh point of view made it the winner. Great compositional techniques. Solid work, fresh approach. This is real. Even for documentary, it is a non-traditional style."
Congrats to Christopher !
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