Partners

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund granted Ryan Libre the 2011 Howard Chapnick Grant to help establish a physical center for Documentary Arts Asia. The Smith Fund supports individuals who are active in the field of Humanitarian Photography. Specifically the Chapnick Grant is given to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism. Since 1979 the fund has worked to seek out independent voices who work and create outside the boundaries of modern publishing and mass media, following the legacy of W. Eugene Smith.

Documentary Arts Asia is under the umbrella of Sulak Sivaraksa’s Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation (SNF), one of the most established, active and respected foundations native to Southeast Asia. This relationship gives DAA a broad network to synergize with and a firm legal standing as a recognized non-profit foundation able to accept tax deductible donations.

DAA was the primary local partner for the 2012 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop DAA was honored to host several of the greatest living photojournalists today including Ron Haviv, Maggie Stabler, Walter Astrada, Andrea Bruce and 14 others others. These teachers brought students in from all over Asia and beyond. This amazing event is just once a year and past locations included Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Mexico City and 2013 will be in Sarajevo.