Meet our 2025 Grantees!
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Camden Hall
Camden Hall is a rising high school senior and works as a freelance photojournalist and photo editor based in Middle Tennessee. His current clients include ZUMA Press, Williamson Herald, The Tennessean, and UPI.
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Ish
Ishika is the sports photo intern at Getty Images. She graduated from Texas A&M in May, where she worked with A&M Athletics and The Battalion. She previously interned with the Houston Astros and the Houston Chronicle.
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Chris Torres
Chris is a staff visual journalist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Cal State University Northridge where he was chief photographer and Editor in Chief of The Daily Sundial.
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Joe Wakefield
Joe is an action sports and events photographer living in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. He is owner of JBW Photos, a company focused on telling the story of the MTB community in British Columbia and beyond.
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Helen McGinnis
Helen is a freelance photographer and tech professional based in Charlotte NC. She recently served as Photography Coordinator for Wake Forest Athletics and previously worked as a Photographic Services Intern with The Indianapolis Colts.
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Lorenzo Vasquez
Lorenzo is a self-taught photojournalist from Jacksonville FL who recently served as the OPS photographer for the Florida Gators University Athletic Association. He previously interned with USA Baseball and is a graduate of UofF
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Thien-An Truong
Thien-An is a student at San Jose State University and a San Francisco Bay Area-based freelance photographer specializing in sports. His clients include Getty Images, NCAA Photos, the S.F. Chronicle, and ISI Photos.
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Isaac Wasserman
Isaac is a freelance sports photographer and documentary photojournalist based in Minneapolis, MN. He was most recently an intern with Clarkson Creative / NCAA Photos and is a graduate of the University of Oregon.
2025 Development Grantees
Ray Bahner
Ray graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2023 with a degree in entrepreneurship then interned at the Frisco Roughriders. He is currently the Academy/Athletics Photographer at the Air Force Academy.
Ella Hall
A student at Louisiana State University, Ella is a student photographer for LSU Football and is majoring in mass communication with a minor in communication studies. She is a native of Key West, Florida.
Jaiden Tripi
Jaiden was a photography intern with the Boston Red Sox in 2023, after graduating with a BFA in Photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a native of Rochester, New York.
2023 Grantees
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Michael Chisholm
Michael is a Toronto-based photographer. When he won a 2023 DPPF grant, he worked for the Canadian Premier League, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League. He graduated from Seneca College in 2020.
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Luke Hales
In 2023, Luke was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in communication & media at the University of Michigan and working at Michigan Photography. Previously, he worked as the summer photography intern for the NFL in Los Angeles.
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Sara Kempner
In 2023, Sara was a freelance photographer based on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Initially a self-taught landscape photographer, Sara now spent most of her time photographing sports, with a heavy focus on mountain biking.
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Tyler McFarland
In 2023, Tyler was working as a photographer for Boise State Athletics. He graduated in 2024. He has experience in both commercial editorial photography and photojournalism. Tyler also received a DPPF mentorship.
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Gabriel Monnet
Gabriel is a Swiss photographer who graduated from the Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey in 2021. In 2023 he was working as a freelance photographer and covers sports for various newspapers, magazines, and agencies, and for private clients.
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Julia Nikhinson
When she won a 2023 grant, Julia was a Maryland-based freelance photojournalist, frequently shooting for Reuters, The Washington Post and others. After graduating from the University of Maryland, she interned with AP, where she covered collegiate and professional sporting events.
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Will Palmer
In 2023, Will was a UK-based freelance photographer and University of York graduate working across multiple sports, specializing in football, cycling and field hockey with assignments both in the UK and abroad. He also received a DPPF mentorship.
2022 Grantees
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Misper Apawu
When Misper was awarded a 2022 grant, she was a freelance photographer based in Accra, Ghana. She graduated from the University of Cape Coast with a BSc in Marketing, and her work focuses on women and sports.
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Jeff Dean
In 2022, Jeff had just completed a fellowship as a Military Veterans in Journalism Fellow at NPR. He received degrees in journalism from the University of Oregon and interned with the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Ben Green
As of 2022, Ben was based in Buffalo, working as a Team Photographer for the Buffalo Bills, Sabres, and Bandits as a part of Pegula Sports & Entertainment. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 2019.
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Shae Hammond
As of 2022, Shae was a San Jose, CA, based photographer recently hired at The Mercury News. After graduating from California State University, Northridge, she interned for CalMatters and the Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
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Eakin Howard
In 2022, Eakin was a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, Eakin is currently a freelance photographer in North Carolina. He has shot for Getty Images, the Los Angeles Times, NASCAR, and the World Curling Federation.
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Julia Roger-Veyer
When she was awarded a 2022 grant, Julia was a self-taught French photographer with a focus on ice and climbing, and she also worked as a nurse at the École Nationale de Ski et d’Alpinisme (ENSA) in Chamonix.
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WeiChih Wang
As of 2022, Wei-Chih was an underwater photographer based on Green Island on the east coast of Taiwan. He is a former free-diving instructor, and he takes photos within the timespan of one breath.
2021 Grantees