Artist of the Year for 2D visual arts: Alan Salgado

Looking at the stark black-and-white photos shot by Alan Salgado is like taking a trip back in time to the era of the great consciousness-raising photojournalists: Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Boxers and homeless people, solemn subway riders and infectiously smiling children – all are captured by Salgado’s lens in a way that seems natural yet illuminative. And each photo tells a compelling story.
“I don’t just go anywhere,” Salgado told the j