First Place
Eugene Richards
Freelance

"Red Ball of a sun slipping down"

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Eugene Richards went to the beautiful, sorrowful, racially divided Arkansas Delta in 1969, a year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and stayed for more than four years. In Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, black-and-white photographs made long years ago, but never published, are interwoven with recent color photographs and a short story that speaks of Richards’s relationship with an impoverished delta family as well as a growing awareness of his own aging and mortality.