ZUMA Photographer Mary F. Calvert is awarded the Smith Fund Fellowship!

Congratulations to ZUMA Photographer Mary F. Calvert!

Mary F. Calvert and Marcus Bleasdale were honored as co-recipients of the Smith Fund Fellowship for their respective projects and will share the $5,000 award. Calvert’s project, The Battle Within: Sexual Violence in America’s Military, exposed the effects of Military Sexual Trauma on the estimated 19,000 victims that are raped or sexually assaulted each year in America’s military. “Eugene Smith was the paragon of documentary photojournalism and with great courage he dedicated his life and sacrificed his own health to tell the stories of disaffected people in an honorable and respectful way,” Mary F. Calvert said. “To be named the recipient of a fellowship in his name is one of the greatest honors that I can imagine.”