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Lange photo contest winner focuses on Central Valley
Now that he has won the 2008 Dorothea Lange Fellowship, Adithya Sambamurthy, a 28-year-old double major in journalism and international and area studies, will be able to take next year to finish his photographic expedition along California Highway 99, the road that stretches from Bakersfield to Redding. He’s been documenting the path followed by the fictional Joad family in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, a project undertaken last spring as part of a documentary-photography class Sambamurthy was taking at Berkeley.
The $4,000 Lange fellowship, awarded annually since 1982 to a faculty member or graduate student using photography in their academic work, is in memory of the photojournalist best-known for her stark yet humanizing photos of migrant workers in the Central Valley, taken for the federal Farm Security Administration. Lange worked with her husband, Paul Taylor, a Berkeley professor and labor economist. The campus Office of Public Affairs administers the fellowship.
More information about the fellowship, a slide show of Sambamurthy’s winning photos, and a listing of previous winners is online at www.berkeley.edu/lange.
Adithya Sambamurthy photo
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