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CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK ANNOUNCES FELLOWSHIP AWARD WINNERS

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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Center for Photography at Woodstock announces that James Heil of Woodstock, N.Y., Yumiko Izu of Rhinebeck, N.Y., and Harvey Osterhoudt of Kingston, N.Y., have each been awarded the 2007 Photographers’ Fellowship Fund.

Since 1980, CPW has awarded annual grants of $1,000 to two artists in its region who are working in the photographic arts. The 2007 recipients were presented their awards on October 6 at CPW’s 29th annual benefit auction at the Woodstock Community Center.

This year, juror Howard Greenberg of the Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, and founder of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, selected not two but three recipients to receive CPW’s prestigious honor.

James Heil, 27, has been living on his own since he was 15. Between the ages of 15 and 17, he traveled around the United States, alone, hitchhiking and hopping trains. His experiences opened his eyes to an America that usually goes unseen; one in which Vietnam vets travel in gangs, runaway kids gather to form their own families, and old factories are transformed into heroin-shooting galleries.

Originally from Osaka, Japan, Izu received her diploma of photography from Visual Art School in Japan and her bachelor of arts from Brooks Institute of Photography in California. In 2005, she moved to Rhinebeck with her husband Kenro Izu, who ironically is one of the inaugural recipients of the Photographer Fellowship Fund when it was established in 1980.

In 2003 she began to use the platinum/palladium printing process and started ongoing self-project of “Secret Garden” which has been developed out of an exploration of the ephemeral beauty of flowers.

Longtime Kingston resident Harvey Osterhoudt holds a MFA from Indiana University. For a number of years he worked at the Kelton Labs in New York City as a custom printer. Most recently he exhibited his work as the Sarah Morthland Gallery in New York City in 2004.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock is at 59 Tinker Street. For information, 845-679-9957 or www.cpw.org.