Congratulations to Danny for receiving one of two $20,000 grants from the Aftermath Project for his project “Wounded Knee: Generations Endure a Massacre”. (View Danny’s portfolio)

From http://www.theaftermathproject.org/:

This year, 160 applicants around the world applied for the Aftermath Project’s fourth year of funding, up about 15 percent from last year.

A first round of screening was done in Los Angeles on Nov 11th, by Lesley Meyers of the Annenberg Space for Photography, and Sara Terry, photographer and founder/director of The Aftermath Project. At that time, 104 applicants were moved forward to final judging, which took place on November 16, at Host Gallery in London. This year’s judges were Jon Levy of Foto8, Andrea Stern of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Sara Terry.

The judges were impressed with Danny Wilcox Frazier’s proposal about the aftermath of the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota, and the Lakota Indian people who are still fighting for disputed lands. The judges were particularly pleased to find such a strong proposal that examines the aftermath of a conflict on American soil.

Frazier is best known for his black-and-white work, “Driftless: Stories from Iowa,” which won the Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Robert Frank. His Wounded Knee work will be a combination of color and black-and-white, as he explores the generational legacy of a massacre which holds the dubious distinction of being the event which ended the war between colonial/US forces and Indian Nations throughout North America. The images Frazier submitted with his Aftermath grant proposal reflected his strongly emotive approach to photography, and reflected the rural sensibilities that he captured so well in his Iowa work.