Donna Gordon Wins 2025 Denis Roussel Award for Photogravure Portraits
Donna Gordon, an interdisciplinary artist and writer, has received the 2025 Denis Roussel Award from Rfotofolio for her series of photogravure portraits of women in nature, known as "In the Garden." This award, created in 2018 to honor photographer and educator Denis Roussel, supports artists utilizing historical and alternative photographic techniques. Christopher James, a juror, commended the series for its deep roots in myth and significance. Based in Cambridge, MA, Gordon is a Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center until 2027. Her work was featured in the 2026 "Currents" exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. She has received multiple accolades, including the 2024 MacDowell Fellowship and has exhibited widely, including at the Danforth Art Museum and the Griffin Museum. Gordon also authored the debut novel "What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me" (Regal House, 2022), recognized among Kirkus Review's top 100 Indie novels of 2023, and plans to publish a book of photogravures from "In the Garden."
Key facts
- Donna Gordon won the 2025 Denis Roussel Award from Rfotofolio.
- The award was established in 2018 to honor Denis Roussel.
- Gordon's submission featured photogravure portraits of women in nature.
- Juror Christopher James praised the work.
- Gordon is a Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center through 2027.
- Her work was in the 2026 'Currents' exhibition at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
- She was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow and received the 2024 LensCulture Jurors' Choice Award.
- She received the 2024 and 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
- Gordon collaborated with Amnesty International for 'Putting Faces on the Unimaginable' at Harvard's Fogg Museum.
- Her debut novel was published in 2022 by Regal House.
Entities
Artists
- Donna Gordon
- Denis Roussel
- Christopher James
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Graciela Iturbide
- Lee Miller
- Duane Michals
- Francisco Goya
- William Blake
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Michael Mazur
- Jon Cone
- Cathy Cone
Institutions
- Rfotofolio
- Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art
- MacDowell
- LensCulture
- Julia Margaret Cameron Award
- FotoNostrum Gallery
- Danforth Art Museum
- Griffin Museum
- Soho Photo Gallery
- Bromfield Gallery
- Fitchburg Art Museum
- Cape Cod Museum
- Amnesty International
- Harvard's Fogg Museum
- Regal House
- Kirkus Review
- Brown University
- Stanford University
- DeCordova Museum
- Maine Media Workshops
- Cone Editions
- Mixit Printmaking Studio
- Lenscratch
- Shots Magazine
- Dodho
- The Hand
- Art.Doc
Locations
- Cambridge, MA
- United States
- New Orleans
- Louisiana
- Barcelona
- Spain
- Boston
- Massachusetts
- Somerville, MA
- Vermont
- Peterborough, NH
- New Hampshire
- Aquinnah Woods
- Ponyhenge