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= Jane Evelyn Atwood (1947-present)   =

Jane Evelyn Atwood (born 1947) is an American photographer born in New York City, New York who has been living in Paris, France since 1971. Working primarily with documentary photography, Atwood typically follows groups of people or individuals, focusing mostly on people who are on the fringes of society. Atwood acquired her first camera in 1975, with which she began to photograph a group of prostitutes in Paris. In 1980, she obtained a grant from the W. Eugene Smith Foundation for a project she had started about blind children. Until then, she had never published a photograph.

"Too Much Time: Women in Prison"
In 1989, and for a ten-year-long photography study, Atwood photographed women in prison. She became inspired to accomplish this project after French prisons first refused her access to the men's quarters because she was a woman. She obtained access to more than 40 prisons, including the toughest prisons in Eastern and Western Europe and in the United States, as well as death row.

"Too Much Time: Women in Prison" presents itself as a documentary about women's experiences in prison and provides the readers with an exclusive insight on the treatment of inmates in a thought provoking collection of 150 black and white photographs she took while meeting with prisoners who had agreed to be published in her book. Written between the pictures are the women's stories, presented in Tony Parker's lengthy interview style.

"Rue des Lombards" and Other Works
Other themes of Atwood's works include prostitutes in Paris ("Rue des Lombards," 1976), blind children, Darfur, and Haiti. Atwood also did a four-year study of destruction caused by landmines in Cambodia, Angola, Kosovo, Mozambique, and Afghanistan ("The increasing anonymity of the enemy").

In addition, Atwood participated in neo-media projects organized by the French photography institution 24h.com.

In 2008, Atwood presented her work at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in France.

Published Works
Atwood is the author of ten books, two of which are on French prostitutes in Paris and the third on the French Foreign Legion. The fourth, "Extérieur Nuit," is on the blind and was published in the series, Photo Poche Société, Éditions Nathan, in 1998. In February 2000, "Too Much Time: Women in Prison," a ten-year photographic study of women in prison, was published by Phaidon Press Ltd. in the United States, and Trop de Peines, Femmes en Prison, Editions Albin Michel, in France. In 2004, Le Seuil published "Sentinelles de l’ombre," photos and texts about landmine victims in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. "Badate," an intimate story of the immigration phenomenon of Ukrainian women who care for the Italian elderly, was published by Editoriale Sylvana in 2005. Three years of color work, "Haiti," was published by Actes Sud in 2008. In 2010, Atwood joined the prestigious PhotoPoche monography series, published by Actes Sud, with Jane Evelyn Atwood, PhotoPoche #125. In 2011, Editions Xavier Barral re-edited Atwood’s first story on French prostitutes, "Rue Des Lombards," which was originally published in 1976.

A summarized list of Atwood's published works include:
 * "Rue des Lombards" (1976)
 * "Dialogues de Nuit" (Éditions Jean-Jacques Pauvert/Ramsay, 1981)
 * "Nachtlicher Alltag" (Mahnert-Lueg Verlag, 1981)
 * "Legionnaires" (Hologramme, France 1986)
 * "Exterieur Nuit" (Éditions Actes Sud, Photo Poche Société, Centre National de Photo, France 1998)
 * "Too Much Time: Women in Prison" (Phaidon Press, 2000).
 * "Sentinelles de l'ombre" (Éditions du Seuil, 2004)
 * "A Contre Coups" (in collaboration with Annette Lucas, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2006)
 * "Haiti" (Actes Sud, Arles, France 2008),
 * "Badate" (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2008)

Awards
Atwood has received several awards during her career. One of these awards is the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 1980. This was the first award ever given by the W. Eugene Smith Foundation. Atwood has also received the Prix de la Fondation du World Press Photo d'Amsterdam in 1987, the Grand Prix Paris Match for Photojournalism, and the Grand Prix du Portfolio de la Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (SCAM) in 1996. Atwood received the Oskar Barnack Award/Leica Camera in 1997 and the Alfred Eisenstadt Award in 1998. Finally, in 2005, Atwood was awarded the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters of Bard College.

In 2011, Atwood was featured with a retrospective of her work Photographs 1976-2010 at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris.

A summarized list of Atwood's awards include:
 * 1980 - Foundation Eugène Smith Award
 * 1983 - Grant Fiacre of Culture Ministry, France
 * 1988 - Fiacre Grant of Culture Ministry, France
 * 1990 - Paris-Match of Journalism Photo Award
 * 1994 - Hasselblad Foundation Grant
 * 1996 - Marc Flament of Ministry Defence Award
 * 1996 - Grand Prix du Portfolio de la Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (SCAM)
 * 1997 - Leica-Oscar Barnack Award
 * 1998 - Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography
 * 2000 - France Info Radio Award for "trop de peines, femmes en prison"
 * 2003 - Hasselblad Foundation Grant
 * 2005 - Charles Flint Kellog Award in Arts and Letters