The Alexia supports student and professional visual communicators who produce projects that inspire change by addressing socially significant topics.
Professional grant recipient: Danielle Villasana
Danielle Villasana, “Abre Camino,” documenting the dangers faced by transgender women in Latin America.
Nahomy, left, and Alexa, right, walk toward the corner where they work in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. On the streets, trans women often experience abuse, sexual assault, threats, theft and extortion from gang members, clients and the police.
Runner-up: James Year
James Year, “The Moment,” about the struggles faced by long-haul truckers in the U.S.
Andre Ralow Wilson takes a load on Interstate 90 from G&C foods to Utica and Canastota, New York.
Awards of Excellence
Juan Arredondo, “Colombia: War and Peace, and the Space in Between”
Claudia Joana Cruz seeks a replacement for her prosthetic leg in Medellin, Colombia.
A family of 11 shares a two-room apartment in the Mbare neighborhood of Harare, Zimbabwe. People living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards because they live on the most vulnerable lands within cities.
LEFT: Arranged, a full kit left behind by a border crosser north of Ruby, Arizona. RIGHT: “C” a former “coyote” now living in Arizona.
Student grant recipient: Caitlin Eddolls
Caitlin Eddolls, “Eight Hundred,” about people diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) which causes bone to grow where it shouldn’t.
Liesl Saufley carries branches she found on the ground to the car to use for handmade wreaths in Syracuse, New York.
Runner-up: Jordi Jon Pardo
Jordi Jon Pardo, “Eroding Franco,” which compares the suppression of scientific archives during the regime of Spanish prime minister Francisco Franco with the current desertification state of Spain.
A silicone head of Franco by Eugenio Merino on exhibit in Barcelona, Spain.
