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Kittitian US Based Photographer Wayne Lawrence was recently awarded the THE ARNOLD NEWMAN PRIZE FOR NEW DIRECTIONS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE . The award now in its fourth year, is given to a winner of the PDN® Photo Annual whose work echoes Arnold Newman’s legendary portraiture. Lawrence will receive a US$15,000 prize, funded by The Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation with support from Maine Media Workshops, the American Society of Media Photographers and PDN, as well as an exhibition at PhoPA Gallery in Portland, Maine.
Wayne Lawrence is a St.Kitts born and Bred documentary/fine-art photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work represents a visual diary of his life’s journey and focuses on his relationship to communities otherwise overlooked by mainstream media. Lawrence’s photographs have been exhibited at The African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Nathan Cummings Foundation and The George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, among other galleries. His work has also appeared in a number of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, The Sunday Times Magazine, Mother Jones and Newsweek. Lawrence won The Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture for his series of portraits of African-American Orthodox Jews living in Brooklyn, New York, a personal project that was realized with the support of Jody Quon and New York, and published in the December 2012 article “The Black Orthodox.”
Lawrence is the son of well known Kittitian Artist Dennis Richards and well known St.Kitts Calypsonian and Taxi Tour Operator Ava Lawrence .