Awards & Winners

Eugene Richards

Date of Birth 25-April-1944
Place of Birth Dorchester
(Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, Greater Boston, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Photographer
Eugene Richards is a noted American documentary photographer. During the 1960s, Richards was a civil rights activist and VISTA volunteer. After receiving a BA in English from Northeastern University, his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were supervised by photographer Minor White. Richards' published photographs are mostly intended as a means of raising social awareness, have been characterized as "highly personal" and are both exhibited and published in a series of books. The first book was Few Comforts or Surprises, a depiction of rural poverty in Arkansas; but it was his second book, the self-published Dorchester Days, a "homecoming" to Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Richards had grown up, that won most attention. It is "an angry, bitter book", both political and personal. Gerry Badger writes that "[Richards's] involvement with the people he is photographing is total, and he is one of the best of photojournalists in getting that across, often helped by his own prose". Richards has been a member of Magnum Photos and of VII. He lives in New York.

Awards by Eugene Richards

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eugene Richards.

2009


World Press Photo Award for Contemporary Issues
Honored for : War Is Personal
(Stories)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for Contemporary Issues War Is Personal
Stories

1993


World Press Photo Award for People in the News
Honored for : Drugs - Philadelphia and New York
(Stories)

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for People in the News Drugs - Philadelphia and New York
Stories

1992


World Press Photo Oskar Barnack Award
Honored for : 1992 World Press Photo Award for Oskar Barnack Award winning photo
(Individual award/Stories)

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Oskar Barnack Award 1992 World Press Photo Award for Oskar Barnack Award winning photo
Individual award

1991


World Press Photo Award for Daily Life
Honored for : 1991 World Press Photo Award for Daily Life winning photo
(Stories)

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for Daily Life 1991 World Press Photo Award for Daily Life winning photo
Stories