What is the Smith Foundation? Where is it?

The Eugene Smith Foundation was established on 1979 to commemorate the world famous photographer Eugene Smith. Adhering to the principle of "loving photography, caring for life and exploring society", the Foundation has established the Eugene Smith Humanitarian Photography Award for documentary photographers all over the world, including the 1 special prize and the 1 2 encouragement prize. 65438-0996 In memory of Howard Czapnik, an important member of the Foundation and a good friend of Eugene Smith, the Foundation established the Howard Czapnik Photography Award, which is open to photographers all over the world who are committed to the development of news photography.

The Eugene Smith Foundation announced the winners of this year's W.Eugene Smith Humanitarian Photography Award and Howard Chapnik Photography Award. Lu Guang, a photographer from China, and Ren Yue, a teacher from the School of Journalism of China Renmin University, won Eugene Smith's Humanitarian Photography Award and Howard Chapnik's Photography Award respectively for Pollution in China and Huilongguan's filming project "New Geography-Beijing Contemporary Urban Landscape". This is the first time that a photographer from Chinese mainland has won an award from the Foundation after Chien-Chi Chang, a photographer from Taiwan Province Province, China, won the Eugene Smith Humanitarian Photography Award with 1999. Both of them won the award at the same time.