Dorothea Lange Fellowship Winners Announced

Molly Oleson ’13 was selected as winner of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship. Oleson will receive a $4,000 prize for her project, which is to communicate to viewers the meaning of a river to the Kayopo indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon and to highlight the importance of helping to protect things that are priceless to them.

The committee also selected Allison Allbee, a graduate student in urban planning, who has been taking many J-School classes including numerous photo class. She will be awarded $2,000. The committee was impressed with the applications and noted that almost three quarters of the applicants were from the J-School. The committee said this was the highest level of photographic work hey have seen in years.

The fellowship, is in memory of one of the most outstanding documentary photographers of the 20th-century, and encourages the use of photography in the scholarly work of any discipline at UC Berkeley. The fellowship is awarded to a UC Berkeley faculty member or a graduate student, and
applicants must demonstrate outstanding work in documentary photography and a creative plan for future work. The award was created by Paul Taylor, Dorothea’s husband and a long
time Berkeley Faculty member after her death.

The selection of Molly continues a long tradition of jschool students winning this campus wide fellowship including the last eight years.

Past Winners:

2012 Tyler Orsburn, Journalism

2011 Vanessa Carr, Journalism

2010 Steve Saldivar, Journalism

2009 Rhyen Coombs, Journalism

2008 Adithya Sambamurthy, Journalism

2007 Jeremy Rue, Journalism

2006 Jakob Schiller, Journalism &
Timothy Wheeler, Journalism

2005 Tristan Spinski, Journalism