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Sunday, February 01, 2004
The Bush administration's 2005 budget proposes to give the National Endowment for the Arts its largest budget increase (15%) in 20 years. Read it here. If approved by Congress, the endowment's fiscal 2005 budget would stand at $139.4 million, up from the $121 million it received this year. Last year the NEA approved 2,000 grants.
Newsweek photographer Luc Delahaye has declared publicly that he is no longer a photojournalist and is now an artist. Read the Guardian story here.
My vote for the best photojournalist in the world is our own Washington Post's Carol Guzy.
My vote for the best photojournalist in the world is our own Washington Post's Carol Guzy.