Your gifts help create stories that change the world. Abir Abdullah’s work on the tragedy of the garment workers in Bangladesh has been featured on the websites of the New Yorker, ABC News and NBC News. Social change is possible … Continue reading
In our photographer updates, we feature a list of recent works, prizes and publications by Alexia grantees past and present. This year Louie Palu, 2010 Alexia grantee, criss-crossed more than 3,000 kilometres of the US-Mexico border to tell the story … Continue reading
For the December issue of PDN Magazine, David Walker interviewed Tim Matsui about winning the Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant in the article, “Anatomy of a Successful Grant Application: Tim Matsui on the Women’s Initiative Grant.” In the interview, Matsui … Continue reading
![Iythar, an Egyptian-British fine artist, paints at her studio at east London, UK. One of her paintings [top-left] is titled, 'The Way Sarkozy Intended It'. She said, “It is an interpretation of the burqa ban in France. It shows how the ban takes away the voice and identity of Muslim women, leaving them speechless and incomplete”. July 2011. Bharat Choudhary/Alexia Foundation](http://www.alexiafoundation.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BharatChoudary_9-241-600x288.jpg "BharatChoudary_9-24")
Last week at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, Alexia grant winners in 2011 were winners again and won two of only five, “Top International Photographer” awards. Amanda Berg, a senior from RIT was a first-place Alexia student winner … Continue reading
It has been an exciting summer for the Alexia Foundation. Just over two months ago we launched our completely redesigned website. A month later, we launched the Women’s Initiative, dedicated to documenting violence against women, with a $25,000 grant for … Continue reading
Yesterday, we received the following email from photographer Hannah Kozak. “The work you are doing at Alexia Foundation is important and so critical where our planet is as we come into The Age of Aquarius. I am looking for a … Continue reading
Columnist Bob Braun highlights the work of the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understand, and by extension, that of Alexia, Aphrodite and Peter Tsairis in a Dec. 9, 2011 column in the Newark Star-Ledger. The column tells the … Continue reading
The June 2011 National Geographic features Stephanie Sinclair’s photos that she produced with the 2008 Alexia professional grant. Sinclair has been working on the story about child brides for over 4 years. Sinclair wrote to Peter and Aphrodite Tsairis, the … Continue reading
Aphrodite Tsairis has received the 2010 Global Impact Award from the Garden State Woman Education Foundation. Aphrodite and Peter Tsairis created the Alexia Foundation in 1989 after their daughter Alexia died in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, … Continue reading
