Lori Waselchuk is a documentary photographer and arts activist. Waselchuk values working with public and private organizations that work for social change and build community.

Waselchuk's photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide including Newsweek, LIFE, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. She has produced photographs for many local, national and international organizations including CARE, UNICEF, UN World Food Program, Médecins Sans Frontières, The Vaccine Fund, YMCA, CityBridge Foundation, National Hospice Foundation, YMCA of Baton Rouge, and Let Us Grow(South Africa).

Waselchuk is a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation’s 2009 Individual Photographer Fellowship; the 2007 PhotoNOLA Review Prize; and the 2004 Southern African Gender and Media Award for Photojournalism. Waselchuk was also a nominee for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography; a finalist in the 2008 Aperture West Book Prize; and a finalist in the 2006 and 2008 Critical Mass review.

Through a 2008 Distribution Grant from the Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Institute, Waselchuk collaborated with the Angola Prison Hospice Quilters to build a traveling exhibit featuring photographs from her project, Grace Before Dying. The exhibit of quilts and photographs is currently traveling to prisons in Louisiana and Mississippi as well as museums, libraries and special events. Waselchuk's photos from that project will also be featured in several upcoming exhibitions including OSI's Moving Walls #17 which opens in June 2010. For more info: www.gracebeforedying.org.

CURRENTLY, she continues her work in Louisiana with a project on the bridges of New Orleans with the generous support from the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.

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