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This project successfully raised its funding goal on March 21, 2011.
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//CREDIT: Your name included in a list of Donors for every Chernobyl exhibition in the next 4 years, as well as on the Donors Page of project's website. PLUS, a shout-out on the Facebook Page!
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//CREDIT: Same as the $10 level. //GOODIES: Signed Postcard sent when I return.
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//CREDIT: Same as the $10 level. //GOODIES: Signed Special Edition Poster.
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//CREDIT: Same as the $10 level. //GOODIES: Signed Book, “Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR”
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//CREDIT: Same as the $10 level. //GOODIES: Get an hour-long portfolio review/critique by National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig, either in person in his office in Los Angeles, or online via Skype.
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//CREDIT: Your name (single individual or family only) included in a list of Sponsors for every Chernobyl exhibition in the next 4 years, as well as on a special Sponsors Page of the project's website. //GOODIES: Signed Special Edition Art Print - 16x20”
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//CREDIT: Your name (single individual or family only) included in a list of Sponsors for every Chernobyl exhibition in the next 4 years, as well as on a special Sponsors Page of the project's website. //GOODIES: Signed Special Edition Art Print - 20x24”
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//CREDIT: Your name (single individual or family only) included in a list of Sponsors for every Chernobyl exhibition in the next 4 years, as well as on a special Sponsors Page of the project's website. //GOODIES: Signed Special Edition Art Print - 24x36”
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//CREDIT: Your Organization's Logo and Name displayed in a list of Main Sponsors for every Chernobyl exhibition in the next 4 years, as well as displayed large on a Main Sponsors Page on the project’s website.
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Born in Alsfeld, Germany, Gerd Ludwig studied with Professor Steinert at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany, graduating in 1972. The following year he co-founded VISUM, Germany’s first photographer-owned agency, and began working for publications such as Geo, Stern, Spiegel, Time, and Life. Soon after moving to New York in the mid 1980s, he started photographing for National Geographic Magazine. His humanistic focus on environmental issues and the socio-economic changes following the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in the exhibition and book, Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR, a ten-year retrospective published in 2001. His ongoing coverage of post-Soviet Russia has garnered his distinction as being the world’s foremost color photographer documenting the region.
Now based in Los Angeles, Gerd Ludwig is represented by Institute for Artist Management. While he continues to work for National Geographic Magazine, he also exhibits in galleries and museums, lectures at universities, and conducts workshops internationally. He is a Canon Explorer of Light and the recipient of the Lucie Award for International Photographer of the Year in 2006.
