The Saltzman Prize with CPW
Established in 2024 The Saltzman Prize is presented in cooperation with Centre for Photography at Woodstock, USA.
The award recognizes the extraordinary achievements of an emerging photographer whose recent work has garnered wider visibility and whose distinctive voice contributes fresh perspectives to the ongoing dialogue surrounding photography and visual culture.
© Widline Cadet, CWP 2026
© Sridhar Balasubramaniyam, WCP 2026
© Qiana Mestrich, Untitled (Handheld Calculators 2), from the Reinforcements series, 2023
© Keisha Scarville, WCP 2024
© Keisha Scarville, Recess, Within Between Corpus (29), 2024
© Keisha Scarville, Shadow Archive (1), 2024
© Hailun Ma, From Neighbourhood, 2023
© Roy Mulligan, Tether, 2018
2026
Ten artists have been shortlisted for 2026 by nominators Bhooma Padmanabhan, curator; Yancey Richardson, gallerist; Stephanie Syduco, artist and educator; Kristen Lubben, executive director, Magnum Foundation; and Philip Gefter, author, photography critic, and journalist: Marcel Pardo Ariza, Aishwarya Arumbakkam, Sridhar Balasubramaniyam, Widline Cadet, Jenny Calivas, Kerr Cirilo, Destiny Mata, Chloe Scout Nix, Daniel Rampulla, Cinthya Santos Briones.
2025
In 2025 the prize went to Qiana Mestrich, an interdisciplinary artist based in the Hudson Valley. Mestrich, founder of the blog Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History, is also a photo historian and writer: her book, Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography: The Dodge & Burn Interviews, was published by Routledge at the beginning of March. Mestrich was selected among nine other shortlisted outstanding artists: Rapheal Begay (Window Rock, Arizona), Samantha Box (Bronx, New York), Harlan Bozeman (Little Rock, Arkansas), Lucia Gorostegui (Madrid, Spain), Margot Kalach (Mexico City, Mexico), Dakota Mace (Madison, Wisconsin), Rene Matić (London, UK), Lindsay Perryman (Brooklyn, NY), Donavon Smallwood (New York, New York)
2024
Keisha Scarville was the winner of the inaugural edition of The Saltzman Prize, a new award for the best Emerging Photographer in the world. The other nine shortlisted artists were: Hady Barry, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Eric Gyamfi, Accra, Ghana; Patrice Aphrodite Helmar, Juneau, AK / New York, NY; Nhu Xuan Huay, Paris, France; Hailun Ma, Shanghai. China / New York, NY; Rory Mulligan, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; Trina Michelle Robinson, San Francisco, CA; Caroline Tompkins, New York, NY; and Wilfred Ukpong, Oxford, UK / Clermont-Ferrand, France / Eket, Nigeria.