Please keep supporting the Aftermath grant

(a letter from Sara Terry)

Dear duckrabbit readers

I’ll keep this brief…

We are in the final phases of editing our new book, “War is Only Half the Story, Vol Four” — featuring Danny Wilcox Frazier’s incredibly strong work about the aftermath of Wounded Knee; Monika Bulaj’s beautiful work from Afghanistan; and the wonderful work of our finalists, Jessica Hines, Helena Schaetzle, and Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko.

We want to get this book to the printer by the end of the month so that we can mail it out in December.

But we are $4,000 short of meeting our $15,000 matching grant from the NEA to publish this book.

Any help you can give us will be greatly appreciated. You can donate via Paypal on our website:

http://www.theaftermathproject.org

Or you can buy one of the prints featured in our fundraising brochure.

This has been a big year for us — we’ve given out more than $100,000 in grants to photographers who are working on projects about the aftermath of war. We continue to do our work on an absolute shoestring, and we need your help to get this year’s book out in to the world. It’s one of the most important outcomes of what we do — funding work isn’t enough. It has to be seen. Free copies of our book are sent to every US senator, peacebuilding and journalism programs, museum curators, educators and editors.

Many thanks to those of you who’ve already donated, and to our publishing partners — the NEA, the Foundation to Promote Open Society and Photo Wings.

And a sincere thanks in advance to those of you who are in a position to help.

Kind regards,

Sara Terry

Director/Founder The Aftermath Grant

duckrabbit adds

We often praise photographers for getting beautiful shots in hard to access places. Rightly so.  But it takes a different, more unique kind of courage, of faith, of bloodymindedness, of fight, of madness to keep going, year after year, pretty much singlehandedly, to beg, borrow and steal, in order to fund the kind of photography that you believe in. Not your own photography, but others.

The ongoing lifespan of the Aftermath grant is a remarkable achievement by Terry that demands respect and awe.