Paul Shambroom is one of the three artists selected this year to receive a $100,000 Enduring Vision Award. He was chosen alongside Lakota collage artist Arthur Amiotte, Lao weaver
Bounxou Daoheuang Chanthraphone.

The awards are designed to help propel the "artistic careers of mature artists, those with 25 years of experience," says the Bush Foundation, which isn't related to former US President George W. Bush.

"The Bush Artist Program introduced the Enduring Vision Awards in 2007 after an extensive evaluation revealed a dearth of funding opportunities for artists in the later stages of their careers when they often can be most influential."

Shambroom, who is the first photographer to receive such award, has been documenting American power and culture. "For over 20 years he has documented subjects as broad as industrial and office environments, the U.S. nuclear arsenal, small town council meetings and post-9/11 Homeland Security preparations," says the Institute for Artist Management, which represents Shambroom.

His work has been published in three monographs and exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, among many others.

For more information, visit www.paulshambroomart.com.