Center for photography in woodstock In Kingston, NY announced the 2025 Vision Award winners that opened their four eyes.
Not-for-Profit Arts Organization Center was established in 1977 for photography at Woodstock (CPW). There is a dual mission of CPW: “to support the artists working in photography and related media, and to attach the audience through creation, search and learning.”
To pursue its mission, the organization hosts exhibitions in the building of a historic 40,000 square -foot cigar factory at its newly renovated headquarters.
CPW Executive Director Brian Walis says, “We are particularly proud to celebrate an extraordinary and diverse group of honors for the 2025 CPW Vision Awards.” “Each remarkable recipient has re -designed the limitations of photography, which invites us to see the history of the medium and to consider how photography shapes our beauty, personal identity and a sense of social change.”
For his Vision Awards in 2025, the Lifetime Achievement Award on Sally Mann (American, B. 1951). Mann is known for her developed black and white photography reflecting her family, landscape and social aspects, such as young femininity and disease. She is most known for her series’s immediate family (1984–91), with pictures of her children. His most recent work is the study of American South, Deep South (2005), and he is described as “human status” with pride meat (2009).
Mann has won several awards on her career, including three national settlements for a Guggenheim Fellowship and Arts Fellowships. His work has been displayed from the Korkoran Gallery of Art and National Gallery of Art to Metropolitan Museum of Art, in prestigious major museums and galleries. She is also known through her Bestseling Memoirs, Hold Still (2016) as well as in her photography books twelve: Portraits of Young Women (1988), Effective Family (1992), and Whats (2003).
His recognition by the Center for Photography at Woodstock is described by the gallery for his excellent lifetime achievements and acclaimed body work.
“For more than 40 years, their lyrical, black and white depiction of family and nature has retained the psychology of loss, intimacy of young femininity and the southern landscape in the way the war mark.”
Maan made headlines recently for her photos Seized by police In Texas, signal Condemnation And Shout From civil rights groups.
The 2025 CPW Vision Award for the Photographer of the Year goes to Tyler Michelle (American, B. 1995). A fashion photographer whose succulent, bang re -defines, Mitchell’s photography is filled with colored land and is re -designed as pictures.
Growing in Atlanta, Mitchell began documenting scenes of the city’s skate, music, fashion and young culture at an early age. He made history as the first black photographer in 2018, who takes a picture of a vogue cover with his prestigious picture. As the CPW describes:
“Mitchell is a photographer and filmmaker, whose portraits reflect and celebrate the beauty and intimacy of black American life, focusing black self -reliance in the light of history.”
Michelle’s work is in the collection at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), High Museum of Art, and National Portrait Gallery, as well as the foam photographic at Amsterdam, the International Center of Photography at New York and the Arts of Arts at Atlanta. He is also a 2020 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow.
Last year has shown its job at a survey exhibition in C/O Berlin, a dual exhibition with Richard Avedon in Paris photo, and the title of Ghost Image at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City (on 5 April).
The 2025 CPW Vision Award is the award -winning interdisciplinary artist, photo historian, curator and writer Qiana Mestrich (American, B. 1977). In addition, she works as a photography in the Fashion Institute of Technology (Suny) and an assistant faculty on social media. She is appreciated by CPW for her autobiographical photography and highlighting women’s issues:
“Their autobiographical artwork and research engage the issues around the identification of black and mixed-breed, maternity/mothering, and women’s corporate labor. Their innovative collages restore women’s face supply and furniture imagination with women’s faces and restore the role of women of color in the corporate workplace.”
She is known for the establishment of an art initiative that advocates colored photographers with her blog dodge and burn: dicolonizing photography history. Mestrich wrote a book based on a blog, dicolonization and diversity in contemporary photography: The Dodge and Burn Interview. He was awarded the Magnum Foundation Counter Hysters Grant for him in 2022 @WorKingwoc Instagram Archive. The project examines the theme on colored women in the corporate workplace.
CPW explains, “Saltzman Award recognizes the extraordinary achievements of an emerging photographer, whose recent work has gained extensive visibility and whose specific voice contributes to the fresh approach to the dialogue around photography and visual culture. 2026.”
For Photobook of the Year, the 2025 CPW Vision Award is “I’m So Happy You Arone here,” is published by the aperture. The book challenges historical examples by displaying women photographers Miyako Ishyuchi, Toyoko Tokiva and Rinko Kawach.
CPW explained importance, “This important new publication, I am so Happy You Are Hee (aperture), presents a challenge for historical examples and provides a significant observation for photography by providing a comprehensive observation of Japanese women’s contribution to the established canon of Japanese photography.
The book includes 25 detailed portfolio, three illustrated essays, a illustrated book list and the selection of writing by Japanese critics. Note that there are important writing, many of which were first published in translations, sharing these words with the world.
“This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in a revisionist history of Japanese photography,” CPW said.
Image Credit: Photograph Center for Photography at Woodstock, Sally Mann, Tyler Michelle, Kina Mestruch, Aperture.
