2012 Lucie Foundation EMERGING Scholarship

The 2012 Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship recipient is:

Tommaso Barsali, Italy - awarded $2,500.00 to work on Hulk's Toys, a project on the life and art of Franco Bellucci.

Hulk's Toys examines the toys and works of art created by Franco Bellucci, a lifelong health facility resident, whose creations have served as a kind of therapy. Barsali will continue to work with Belucci and those closest to him – his family, health facility staff, and the psychiatrist who first gave Belucci agency to create. Barsali's honest and beautiful images, color and black and white, chronicle a man and his creations

The following photographers were part of the 2012 shortlist (in no particular order):

Barbara Beltramello, Alex Potter, Egor Rogalev, Kay Erickson, Fabian Weiss, Chiara Dazi, Amanda Ortland, Oscar Hidalgo, Peng Chen, Htet San, and Stefan Jora.

Thank you to all of those who have applied; we thank you for your support and interest.

The Lucie Foundation is proud to support photographers who progress the art form of still photography through original subject matter, content, and process. The Lucie Scholarship provides grants for projects and photographers with an ambitious scope for their work. One $2,500 grant will go to an emerging professional (student, graduate, or beginning professional) working on a portfolio or specific body of work. Our support of photography is broad, from photojournalism to fashion photography, digital to medium format, including every other category and subcategory. Our concern isn't with genre, but rather to support innovative work and to aid in artist visibility through exhibition of new work in a metropolitan gallery setting, as well as publication of the work in book format for increased exposure.