{"id":19257,"date":"2015-03-06T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2015-03-06T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:07:40","slug":"congratulations-to-the-2015-alexia-foundation-grant-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/congratulations-to-the-2015-alexia-foundation-grant-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the 2015 Alexia Foundation Grant Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Paolo Marchetti, 2015 Alexia Professional Winner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Alexia Foundation<\/a>\u00a0recently announced the recipients of the 2015 Alexia Foundation Grants<\/a>: Paolo Marchetti<\/a>\u00a0for the professional grant and Michael Santiago<\/a>\u00a0for the student grant.<\/p>\n

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Marchetti of Rome, Italy, will receive the $20,000 professional grant for\u00a0his project \u201cThe Price of Vanity.\u201d The work will document the brutality of the intensive breeding farms used worldwide to produce skins and furs for the high-end fashion industry. It intends to expose this cruel cultural trend driven by remorseless beauty demands.
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Photo by Michael Santiago, Alexia 2015 Student Winner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michael Santiago was named the student winner for his project \u201cStolen Land, Stolen Future.\u201d Santiago is a senior at the San Francisco Art Institute. His project will document the lives of black farmers, who have fought to acquire and maintain land throughout the country, despite facing extreme difficulty along the way.<\/p>\n

Learn about this year’s finalists including professional grant finalists Matt Eich, Charles Mendel, Ed Ou and Corinna Kern as well as\u00a0student runner-up Rahul Talukder from the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh, whose project \u201cCollapse of Rana Plaza<\/a>,\u201d will follow the survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse and the dependents of those who died, on the Alexia Foundation website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Alexia Foundation\u00a0recently announced the recipients of the 2015 Alexia Foundation Grants: Paolo Marchetti\u00a0for the professional grant and Michael Santiago\u00a0for the student grant. Marchetti of Rome, Italy, will receive the $20,000 professional grant for\u00a0his project \u201cThe Price of Vanity.\u201d The work will document the brutality of the intensive breeding farms used worldwide to produce skins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":19264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}