Alice Proujansky
Women Photograph
New York, NY, USA
Alice Proujansky is a documentary photographer covering women and labor: birth, work, motherhood and migration. She has been photographing Birth Culture since 2006, and Women's Work since 2013. She is now working on Hard Times are Fighting Times, a project about the legacy of radical activism in her family.
Her first book, Go Photo! was published by Aperture in May 2016.
Alice's work has been published by New York Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, The New Republic, Fast Company, the Guardian, Harpers and others. She has received support from the Magnum Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Women Photograph, the Solutions Journalism Network and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and was selected for the Review Santa Fe 2014 and the New York Portfolio Review 2016 and 2019.
In addition to her documentary work, Alice has taught photography to underserved young people and their teachers since 2002 and currently heads On Sight, Aperture’s community programs initiative.
Alice grew up in Greenfield, MA. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography and Imaging and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.
2019 - Women Photograph, 2016 - New York Portfolio Review, 2016 - Economic Hardship Reporting Project, 2015 - Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 2014 - Review Santa Fe, 2014 - Magnum PhotoEx Symposium, 2014 - Solutions Journalism Network
- Arts
- Audio capture
- Editorial
- Events
- Interview
- Medical
- Reporting
- RISC training
- Sports
Roots Midwifery
Alice Proujansky
Midwife Rebecca Polston watches Em'Mae Alexander, 20, labor with the support of her mother, Tulaani Alexander and her doula, Lakesha Gordon at Roots Community Birth Center.
Polston is Minnesota's only black Certified Professional Midwife, and her birth center emphasizes evidence-based, culturally-focused care.
Roots Midwifery
Alice Proujansky
Em'Mae Alexander, 20, is transferred from Roots Community Birth Center to North Memorial Health Hospital in Minneapolis, MN by ambulance. Midwife Rebecca Polston continues to monitor the baby's heart tones - she had begun hearing decelerations that concerned her.
Roots Midwifery
Alice Proujansky
Em'Mae Alexander's labors as her midwife, friend and partner look on. Midwife Rebecca Polston recommended the hospital transfer because she wanted to be able to monitor the fetal heart rate decelerations more closely.