Adriana Sanfeliu’s project, "Life on the Block," is the winner of the 2006 NPPA/Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant.
When I got the message that I won, I could not believe it. I feel very moved. It’s been a very lonely journey for me doing this work. I’ve had wonderful support from teachers along the way, but I feel that I really grew as a photographer with these photographs, and in understanding what documentary photography is to me and how I feel about it, and these people that I’ve been working with, these women in Harlem.
DURHAM, NC (January 10, 2007) – Nikon Inc. has elected not to fund the NPPA-Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant for 2007 and so there will not be a grant awarded to a photojournalist for a project this year, the president of the National Press Photographers Association said today.
“However, NPPA is working on securing sponsorship for the grant in the coming year,” Tony Overman said, “because we believe the sabbatical grant is a very important part of the documentary photojournalism community, and a very important program for NPPA’s members. NPPA will find a party to co-sponsor the grant, probably under a new name so that we can honor the 21 years of the Nikon relationship with the grant, and we’ll move forward.”