Health Programs

The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism 2002-2003

Eugene Richards

Freelance photographer, filmmaker,
writer, and teacher
Brooklyn, New York

TOPIC: Photographic essays, educational videos, and oral histories that assess, document, and challenge the world's discrimination against and abuse of people who have mental illnesses

The Connection.org: Eugene Richards
Photojournalist Eugene Richards's images are both searing, and incredibly intimate. There's the young boy crying on the bathroom floor of a housing project; the hollow eyes of a mental patient in Mexico; a needle gripped in the mouth of a heroin addict in New York City.