Photograph: Susan Worsham

The Film Photo Award is open to all emerging, established, and student photographers based in the United States. Each award period provides three distinct grants of Kodak Professional Film and complimentary film processing by Griffin Editions to photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field and are motivated to continue the development of still, film-based photography in the 21st century.

Photograph: Graham Dickie

All winners of the FPA in its five year history will be celebrated in Developing Story: Five Years of the Film Photo Award at Cassilhaus. Artists include Trent Davis Bailey, Susan Worsham, Guanyu Xu, Jon Henry, Leah Schretenthaler, Jonathan Mark Jackson, Graham Dickie, Alexander Komenda, Odette England, Magda Biernat, Owen McCarter, Kristina Knipe, Simon Murphy, Saskia Baden, Chance Deville, Emma Ressel , Matthew Leifheit, Biance Surchio & riel Sturchio, and Shawn Bush. RSVPs are required to attend. Please check out the Cassilhaus website to see all programming updates.

Photograph: Chance Deville

Cassilhaus is a home, a singular piece of architecture, a lifelong arts project, and a love-filled partnership between Ellen Cassilly and Frank Konhaus. Ellen is an architect and community activist and Frank is a retired AV System Designer, Director of the Cassilhaus Artist in Residence and Exhibition Programs, and arts entrepreneur.

After a five-year land search and a three-year design process, Cassilhaus was born as dream home/art gallery/artist studio and residency in the woods between Durham and Chapel Hill, NC and has grown into an exciting nexus for arts activity and community in the Triangle region. Cassilhaus hosts a diverse exhibition program and a multi-disciplinary residency program which bring extraordinary artists from our region and around the world to pollinate and stimulate our little corner of the art world. Cassilhaus was designed by the team at Ellen Cassilly Architect.