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Jalal Shamsazaran Awarded 2020 Bob & Diane Fund Grant
30 November 2020
The Bob & Diane Fund has announced Iranian photographer Jalal Shamsazaran has been awarded its $5,000 grant for 2020 for his project The Loss of Oral History. With 73 submissions from 27 countries the contest was judged by the Fund founder Gina Martin and photojournalist Jared Soares.
"Jalal's work has such a strong narrative. His distinct voice tells a strong personal story. The images had such unexpected and refreshing ways to interpret his father's life with dementia," said Jared Soares.
"I am so thrilled that Jalal's project was chosen for the grant. Jalal captures his father's decline into dementia until his death with grit, tenderness and emotion. His beautiful black-and-white images with his distinct style and voice shows the power of visual storytelling" said Martin.
The Bob & Diane Fund, which launched in June 2016, is the passion project of Gina Martin, whose mother, Diane, succumbed to Alzheimer's after a five-year battle. Diane's high school sweetheart and husband for almost 50 years, Bob, was her primary caregiver and died just three months later. Their legacy of generosity and compassion for others was what inspired Gina to create the Fund in their names.
Jalal's work, The Loss of Oral History, will be presented in the Washington Post and featured on the Bob & Diane Fund Web site.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bob & Diane Fund, a grant-making organization dedicated to promoting awareness of Alzheimer's and dementia-related diseases, is awarding $5,000 to Iranian photographer Jalal Shamsazaran for his project, The Loss of Oral History.
Alzheimer's and dementia-related diseases affects more than fifty million people worldwide. Shamsazaran's home country of Iran affects 750,000 people (one in 40 Iranian families).
Today's announcement attempts to bring awareness, interest and support for funding research efforts by awarding a photographer whose work tells the stories of patients with dignity and respect.
The Bob & Diane Fund, which launched in June 2016, is the passion project of Gina Martin, whose mother, Diane, succumbed to Alzheimer's after a five-year battle. Diane's high school sweetheart and husband for almost 50 years, Bob, was her primary caregiver and died just three months later. Their legacy of generosity and compassion for others was what inspired Gina to create the Fund in their names.
"The visual stories of patients and caregivers can humanize what is, in fact, a very cruel and dehumanizing disease," says Gina. "My hope is that the work funded today and in the future, will have a profound and lasting effect on people, persuading them to support and advocate for a cure."
Jalal's work, The Loss of Oral History will be presented on the Washington Post online and featured on http://www.bobanddianefund.org.
With 73 submissions from 27 countries the contest was judged by our founder, Gina Martin and Washington, D.C.-based photojournalist, Jared Soares.
"Jalal's work has such a strong narrative. His distinct voice tells a strong personal story. The images had such unexpected and refreshing ways to interpret his father's life with dementia," says Jared Soares.
"I am so thrilled that Jalal's project was chosen for the grant. Jalal captures his father's decline into dementia until his death with grit, tenderness and emotion. His beautiful black-and-white images with his distinct style and voice shows the power of visual storytelling" says Gina Martin.
