DORNITH DOHERTY: Awarded John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

Dornith Doherty and her View Camera, Svalbard

In 2010, Doherty traveled to the North Pole to photograph the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the Doomsday Vault

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Houston Center of Photography
SPOT MAGAZINE, Spring 2012

Tim Hetherington Cover Photo

Read: An Interview with Dornith Doherty by Elizabeth Avedon

The importance of Doherty’s work is both timely and spiritual. In case of world disaster, seed conservation is of global importance to everyone – from An Interview with Dornith Doherty, Spot Magazine

Houston Center of Photography | SPOT MAGAZINE, Spring 2012

Dornith Doherty has been awarded a 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The Foundation has awarded Fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists in its eighty-eighth annual competition for the United States and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants...read more about the Guggenheim Award here