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Current – Visiting Scholar, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, reappointed annually since 1998. 2018 – Publication of a retrospective monograph, LIFE’S WORK, A Fifty-Year Photographic Chronicle of Working in the U.S.A. by AIHA PRESS, 500 photographs, 250 pages. The companion exhibit of the same name on view at the AFL-CIO’s Washington, DC headquarters, from September 13th until November 29th, and then at the 2018 NCOSH Conference, Baltimore in early December. A photo on the front cover of Occupational Health and Environmental Health, Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, with 66 Dotter photographs published inside. Edited by Barry Levy, David Wegman, Sherry Baron, and Rosemary Sokas, Oxford University Press, Seventh Edition. 2016 Received the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization’s (ADAO) Tribute of Inspiration Award, for creating the touring exhibit: BADGES, A Memorial Tribute to Asbestos Workers. 2015 – Received Lifetime Achievement Award in Occupational & Environmental Health from New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and from the Massachusetts Association of Occupational Health Nurses. 2014 – Awarded grants from the Maryland Humanities Foundation and the Migrant Clinicians Network to create the exhibit, WORK. RESPECT. DIGNITY: Shared Images of Maryland’s Eastern Shore Immigrants, presented at the University of Maryland, Salisbury, Downtown Gallery. 2012 – Reprise of THE QUIET SICKNESS, A Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work in America, the exhibit presented at the Center for Disease Control, Sencer Museum, Atlanta. 2011 – Received commission to photograph for the book, Maimonides At Work, honoring all levels of staff on the occasion of the Maimonides Medical Center’s 100th Anniversary in Brooklyn, New York. Commissioned to create 300 large-format photographs hung throughout the hospital for this permanently installed exhibit. 2010 – Inducted as Honorary Lifetime Member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. 2007 – National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, Dotter coal mining photographs added to the Permanent Collection. 2002 – NEWSEUM Photojournalist of the Month (May), Website Presentation Honoring Earl Dotter’s 9/11 Ground Zero photography. 2001 – Alice Hamilton Award presented by American Public Health Association, commemorates a “Lifetime of Service to Occupational Health & Safety.” 2000 – Recipient of the Josephine Patterson Albright Fellowship in Photojournalism from the Alicia Patterson Foundation to document the hazards of the commercial fishing industry in New England. 1999 – The Washington Post, 9/6/99, Lead Editorial, “Labor Day: Real People,” cites THE QUIET SICKNESS photography exhibit at the U.S. Department of Labor Headquarters, Washington, DC. 1999 – Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/6/99, Full-page photo spread entitled, “Hard, Dirty Work,” featuring poultry, textile, and coal industry workers exhibited at the Appalshop Gallery in Whitesburg, Kentucky. 1999 – The Washington Post, 9/3/99 Business Section Feature entitled, “A 25-Year Cross Country Chronicle, Snapshots on the State of Workplace Safety.” The article by Cindy Skrzycki states, “Dotter’s work, representing 25 years of workplace history, shows in black and white the gritty reality of what it is like to work in the closed space of a mine, the devastation of losing a life from a work-related injury, and the reduced circumstances of families who lose a breadwinner to a dangerous job.” The article quotes Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman’s observations about THE QUIET SICKNESS exhibit on display at the U.S. Department of Labor Headquarters in Washington, DC. 1998 – Semifinalist, Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for THE QUIET SICKNESS, A Photographic Chronicle of Hazardous Work In America. The book was published by AIHA PRESS in May of 1998. 1997 – The Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus, 10/12/97, Vermont Report. “In This State” by Will Lindner, “Photographer Aims Lens at Hazards of Working World” covers THE QUIET SICKNESS exhibit on display in Burlington, Vermont as part of the exhibit’s tour of New England sponsored by The Harvard School of Public Health’s Occupational Health Program. 1997 – Finalist, Harry Chapin Media Award, Category: Best Photojournalism, for The Quiet Sickness exhibit, book, and Columbia Journalism Review article. 1988 – Recipient, Leica Medal of Excellence Award, National Capital Region. 1985 – Dotter photographs cited in A World History of Photography, by Naomi Rosenblum, pages 532 & 534, Abbeville Press. 1983 – Eight-page portfolio published in Photo/Revue, edited by Sebastiao Salgado; Paris, France. 1981 – Finalist, W. Eugene Smith Fellowship; Recipient, Creative Artist Program Grant, NY State Council for the Arts; 10-page portfolio in American Photographer magazine with an essay by Walter Rosenblum. 1978 – “The Art Annual Award, Communication Arts,” for Best Black and White Editorial Photography as published in Quest/77 Magazine an article entitled, “Coal, Past and Future Fuel;” Review, The New York Times Sunday “Photography View” column by Gene Thornton cited the Gallery 1199 coal mining exhibit, “In Our Blood,” as “one of the ten most important photographic events of 1977.” 1976 – Recipient, National Magazine Award for The United Mine Workers Journal in the category of Specialized Journalism, sponsored by Columbia School of Journalism. |
