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
