Lange-Taylor Prize Winners Announced

The Lange-Taylor Prize 2007 was awarded to writer-photographer team Kurt Pitzer and Roger LeMoyne. Supported by a $20,000 grant awarded by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Pitzer and LeMoyne will investigate the repercussions of war on the people of the former Yugoslavia more than ten years after the region was wracked by fighting that left thousands dead or displaced.

One of the moving early images to come out of their project is LeMoyne’s shot of a Bosnian-based group called the Mothers of Srebrenica. The group’s mission is to find justice and preserve the memory of the thousands of sons, husbands and relatives lost in the war.

Like the Mothers of Srebrenica, LeMoyne and Pitzer are interested in those who are fading out of the general consciousness. Their project documents the shifting period in which fresh emotions and memories transform into cold history.

Now in its 17th year, the Lange-Taylor Prize is awarded to a pair of collaborators planning a documentary project in the tradition of photographer Dorothea Lange and social scientist Paul Taylor. The deadline for next year’s application is January 31, 2008.

Photograph © Roger LeMoyne