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The Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography is celebrating its 10th anniversary and has announced its .2000 award winners. Marc Asnin (U.S.) will be awarded the Medal of Excellence for his project entitled Uncle Charlie, a 20-year documentary on the life of his schizophrenic uncle. This photographic essay tells the story of two generations dealing with mental illness, drug abuse, AIDS and family dysfunction. The other recipients are Christian Crave (Brazil) for Sert[tilde{a}]o which documents the lives and beliefs of people whose religion and faith have enabled them to live in one of Brazil's poorest and harshest regions; Adriana Groisman (Argentina) for Tango: The Dance of the Night, an intimate and sensuous look into the world of the milongas, the traditional Argentinean tango balls, and the unique sub-culture of their patrons, the milongueros, who have, their own specialized codes of behavior; Andrew Moore (UK) for Northern Ireland After the Cease-Fire which focuses on the post-cease-fi re struggles that continue around the Northern Irish "marching season" Shehzad Noorani (Bangladesh) whose project Daughters of Darkness takes a dose-up look into the day-to-day lives and struggles of Bangladeshi prostitutes and Joseph Ouma (Uganda) for The Control of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, a project intended to stimulate research and behavioral changes in the public. The Lifetime Achievement award will honor Raghubir Singh (1943-1999). An exhibition of the winning projects will be held at SF Camerawork through August 12.... ArtsLink has announced the winners of its eighth cycle of Collaborative Projects awards. Twenty-two literary, performance and visual artists and organizations have been awarded funds totaling $102,000 for projects that involve collaboration with artists or arts groups in Eastern and Central Europe. The winners include Jeanne Finley and Lynne Sachs who will collaborate with artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a video and Internet project that explores how war has affected the multi-cultural character of Sarajevo. Residencies atthe Museum of the City of Skopje in Macedonia will be supported for visual artists Candida Alvarez, Gayle Gerber and Kay Rosen as part of a project involving the museum and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. that will include lectures, panel discussions and exhibitions in both Skopje and Chicago. Also announced were the Independent Partnership awards. Recipients include artists Egle Rakauskaite of Lithuania for a residency at Out North Contemporary Art House in Anchorage, AK and Dusan kirbis of Slovinia who will create new work for the "Artists of Peace" exhibition at L.I.P.A. Gallery in Washington, D.C.... The Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a visual arts artistic development program, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, announced its 2000 awards. Five grant recipients representing nine organizations were selected to share this year's awards which total $837,725. The primary goal of the awards is to stimulate artistic excellence in regional visual arts exhibitions. The winners include the Fabric Workshop and Museum for a new architectural environment that links multiple fabric spaces with projected video images by video artist Doug Aitken and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts for a retrospective examining the work of avant-garde dancer/filmmaker Yvonne Rainer.... The Getty Grant Program has announced the first 10 recipients of a new fellowship program designed to address the need for curatorial research support. The Curatorial Research Fellowships totaling more than $100,000. are intended to suppo rt the professional and scholarly development of curators by allowing them to take time off from their regular duties to undertake short-term research or study projects. This year's grantees are Elisabeth Antoine (Mus[acute{e}]e National du Moyen Age, Paris), Szilvia Bodn[acute{a}]r (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), Comelia Hepburn Butler (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), May Lewis Castleberry (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Julien David Chapuis (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), David Park Curry (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond), Mary MacNaughton (Scripps College, Claremont, CA), Sandra S. Phillips (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), William H. Robinson (Cleveland Museum of Art) and Joaneath Ann Spicer (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore). For information-visit www.gett.edu/grant/research.... The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University recently announced the winners of the I 999-2000 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards, named in honor of the coinventor of Kod achrome film. The awards rotate biennially throughout different regions of the world recognizing artists who have achieved excellence in color photography. This year's winners were chosen from artists representing the countries of Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. John Kiyaya, a photographer from Tanzania, was selected as the first place winner and will receive $3500. The second place winners, Philip Kwame Apagya of Ghana, Peter Magubane of South Africa and Yinka Shonibare, a Nigerian/British artist, were all awarded $1500. An exhibition of the work of the four selected artists will be presented at the Center next summer.