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	Previous Prizewinners 2008 Becoming Chinese: Uighurs in Cultural Transition, by Carolyn Drake and Ilan Greenberg; an investigation into the ways in which Uighurs negotiate ways of being under the Chinese government's strict anti-Uighur policies 2007 After War, by Kurt Pitzer and Roger LeMoyne; an inquiry into the lasting effects of war on ordinary civilians of the former Yugoslavia 2006 The Human Is an Atom That Won't Be Split: Resisting History in Ukraine, by Larry Frolick and Donald Weber; an exploration of how Ukraine's underclass reveals the secret life of Western globalization 2005 High Plains, by Peter Brown and Kent Haruf; a rediscovery of place—the people, land, and small towns of the central High Plains Alexa Dilworth, awards director at CDS, talks with Peter Brown about winning the prize, doing documentary work, and what it means to collaborate with another artist on a project like this one. 2004 Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice, and the Will to Survive in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms, by Jim Lommasson and Katherine Dunn; the power of boxing to transform lives and communities 2003 Guatemala City Dump: Life at the Rim, by Misty Keasler and Charles D'Ambrosio; an in-depth look at the makeshift village at the edge of the Guatemala City dump View video excerpts of an interview with Misty Keasler 2002 The Garden of Eden: Living with Schizophrenia on Coney Island, by Dona Ann McAdams and Brad Kessler; a window into the extraordinary world of people living with severe mental illness 2001 Pane Amaro / Bitter Bread: Italy's New Immigrants, by Paola Ferrario and Mary Cappello; diptychs and prose inventions about the difficulties of dislocation and finding a new home 2000 One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, by Deborah Luster and C.D. Wright; photographic portraits of prisoners with poems influenced by their life stories 1999 Mountain Jews: A Lost Tribe, by Jason Eskenazi and Jennifer Gould; the transition of a centuries-old village in the Caucasus from its traditional ways of life 1998 I-26, Corridor of Change, by Rob Amberg and Sam Gray; an examination of the physical, economic, and social changes accompanying highway construction in remote Appalachia 1997 El Periodo Especial, by Ernesto Bazan and Silvana Paternostro; the struggle to survive in Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union 1996 A Positive Life, by Mary Berridge and River Huston; verbal and visual portraits of HIV-positive women and their families 1995 The More Things Change, by Antonin Kratochvil and Jan Novak; an intense look at life in the post-Communist Czech and Slovak republics 1994 Mapping American Samoa, by Reagan Louie and Tom Farber; a record of the current manifestations of islanders' mixed cultural heritage 1993 Mara Salvatrucha, by Donna DeCesare and Luis Rodriguez; an exploration of the lives of the young men and women in Salvadoran street gangs 1992 Farewell Promised Land, by Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin; the California dream of an Edenic world compared with its actual history and current conditions 1991 Free Grace, by Keith Carter and Suzanne Winckler; portrait of daily life in Mississippi Delta communities GALLERY Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize: view photographs and writing from ten past prizewinning projects banner image: Scene in a traditional Uighur market, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, 2007. Photograph by Carolyn Drake, prizewinner in 2008. top