| Brenda Ann Kenneally |
 © Laura Loforti
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| USA |
Brenda Ann Kenneally is an independent journalist whose long-term projects are intimate portraits of social issues, at the intersection of the personal and the political. She has previously been awarded by World Press Photo in 2003. Her book Money, Power, Respect won the prize for best photojournalism book at Pictures of the Year in 2006. Kenneally's work for the past five years has been a look at coming of age in post-industrial America. The project was awarded the Canon Female Photojournalist Award in 2008, and received an honorable mention at UNICEF Photo of the Year.
In 2006 Kenneally was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to investigate the living conditions of families on the Gulf Coast on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The multimedia feature component of Kenneally's reporting won a Webby Award in 2008 and cemented her commitment to use the web to push the boundaries of the social documentary and to publish the work of voices marginalized in the traditional media. In this spirit Kenneally and independent producer Laura Loforti founded The Raw File.
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