Announcing the 2022 Inge Morath Award✨ Alongside the Inge Morath Estate, we are pleased to announce Johis Alarcón (@johis.alarcon) as the recipient of the 2022 Inge Morath Award, a production grant given each year to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 by the membership of @magnumphotos in honor of their late colleague, Inge Morath. Alarcón is a freelance photographer based in Ecuador. Her work is focused on social justice, human rights, and gender related issues, and in 2021 she was a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow. Alarcón’s project, “Because the sun looked at me,” explores the story of the daughters and granddaughters of Black women who survived slavery in Latin America. The project follows the Cimarrona Women Guard in Cauca Community, Northern Colombia, a community self-protection initiative that seeks to protect the territory autonomously – building on more than five centuries of resistance. In keeping their African legacy alive in their spirituality and activism, the women are able to reaffirm their identity, protect their territories, and resist racism. As one woman, Sista Karla, shared, “You are lucky to live with your mother, my people were deterritorialized and I never got to meet my mom, Africa. The only way for us to get back to her is through our spirituality.” On receiving the award, Alarcón shared: “At first, I could not believe that I was selected. The previous winners are people that I admire a lot and I consider them as a guide in my career and my life. I am extremely grateful to receive this award and I feel a great responsibility and a lot of emotion to continue my work on the Cimarronas women in Latin America because their strength and love have marked me as a woman and as a photographer. I can only imagine the new stories, places and encounters that will come soon.” Read more about Alarcón and this year’s finalist, Spandita Malik (@spanditamalik), at the link in our bio.