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Recent major projects include The Underclass and Its Bosses: Crime & Punishment in Ukraine, which won the
Lange-Taylor Documentary Prize; Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl, which won the photolucida Book Award; The
Drunken Bride, Russia Unveiled, completed with a Guggenheim Fellowship; Opera of Power, which won a Canada
Council Fellowship; and his latest book, Interrogations, about post-Soviet authority in Ukraine and Russia, re-
leased by Schilt Publishers, 2012.
His work has appeared in numerous international publications including Amica, Der Speigel, The Guardian,
Newsweek, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Stern, Time and The Walrus. He has
worked with the NGO’s Medecins sans Frontieres, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and War
Child. Weber’s photography projects have been exhibited at festivals and galleries worldwide including the United
Nations, Museum of the Army at Les Invalides in Paris, the Portland Museum of Art and the Alice Austen House
Museum in New York. Other major awards include the Duke and Duchess of York Photography Prize, two World
Press Photo awards, PDN’s 30 and was named an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo.
Currently Don is working on two separate projects: The Drowned City and ‘War is good*’ (photographed in nort-
hern Iraq, courtesy of the Magnum Emergency Fund). He is a member of the acclaimed VII Photo Agency.
/ THE WORKSHOP – what attendees have said:
“This workshop is a good investment, it paid for itself when I received my first grant a couple months later.”
Brett Gundlock, photographer and member of Boreal Collective
“Thanks for the very inspiring workshop! I can really see now what went wrong so far, and what to do differently
from now on. I’m pretty sure there will be a grant soon!”
David de Jong, Photographer, Amsterdam
“If you ever take a workshop in how to get more and better grants, Donald’s is the one. He is that rare photographer
who has managed to live and pursue projects for many years primarily on grants.”
Bill Crandall, Photographer, Washington, DC
Former student Uwe Martin has won three separate grants totaling 16,000 Euro ($22,000) since taking the Grant
Writing Workshop in Berlin. Jared Soares received a Puffin Foundation Grant after completing the workshop in
Washington, DC. Aaron Vincent Elkaim wins a $20,000 grant after taking the workshop in Toronto.
Brent Gundlock wins $5,000 from the Ontario Arts Council. Peter Di Campo has won many awards and received
two Pultizer Center grants totaling over $25,000 after completing the workshop.
Several other students have also received awards, prizes, been shortlisted and furthered their careers after taking
the workshop, helping them preparing their proposals, edit their proposals and craft a better CV.