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EUGENE RICHARDS
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Eugene Richards was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Graduating college, he joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) then worked as a social worker and reporter in eastern Arkansas. After the publication of his first book, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (1973), he worked as a freelance editorial photographer for such publications as LIFE, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine. Richards's subsequent books include Dorchester Days (1978), a portrait of the racially torn neighborhood where he was born; Exploding Into Life (1986), which chronicles his wife Dorothea's struggle with breast cancer; Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (1994), a study of the impact of hardcore drugs on inner city neighborhoods; Stepping Through the Ashes (2002), an elegy to those who lost their lives in New York on September 11, 2001; The Fat Baby (2004), a collection of fifteen photographic essays produced both on and off assignment; A Procession of Them (2008), which documents the mistreatment of the world's mentally disabled; and most recently, The Blue Room (2008), a study of the abandoned and forgotten houses of rural America. Among numerous honors, Richards has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for Photographic Innovation, the National Geographic Grant for Photography, the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, a fellowship from the Nation Institute, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.
