TIM DILLON GRANT FOR VISUAL STORYTELLING
Announcing the annual $3000 Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling awarded through Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 student documentary program.
Tim was a career photojournalist known for his kind and generous spirit. Much of his career was spent at USA TODAY where he covered the White House, Congress, and wherever else his editors sent him.
The annual Dillon Grant will be awarded to a student to participate in a 12-week intensive visual documentary program taking part in the Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 documentary program to photograph the people and culture of Harrison County, Kentucky while benefiting from world-class mentoring in conjunction with the Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling and the Mary Withers Rural Writing Fellowship.
The Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling provides a unique one-of-a-kind opportunity for photojournalists to expand their skills and develop the tools to sustain a career in journalism and documentary photography.
Continuing in the documentary tradition of the Farm Security Administration pictorial project’s recording of American life between 1935 and 1944, photographs taken by Project 306.36’s The Dillon Grant recipients will become an important historical record of the people and places inside the 306.36 square miles of Harrison County, Kentucky.
This grant will be funded by annual donations from Tim’s friends, family, colleagues, and admirers. Contributions can be made online at https://www.boydsstation.org/support or by clicking on the above link. Please be sure to note your support is to be directed to the The Tim Dillon Grant for Visual Storytelling.
Personal checks can be mailed directly to Boyd's Station, 210 Boyd's Station Road, Berry, KY 41003. Please indicate that your contribution is intended for The Tim Dillon Grant.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jack Gruber at jack@boydsstation.org or reach out to 703-901-1810. Jack will be able to make any of your requests happen! Thank you!
Timothy Dillon
Beloved husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend passed away on June 10, 2023 in Maricopa, AZ, where he had lived and served as the de facto mayor for the last three years. He was 76. He was a fourth generation native of Washington, DC, and lived most of his life there and in Maryland. Tim started his long news career during his active duty with the U.S. Air Force as the editor of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. Subsequently he was a photojournalist for the Maryland Independent, the Washington Evening Star, and USA Today. Tim was a member of the White House Press Photographers Pool covering the Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Bush administrations and served for a decade as Chairman of the Senate Press Photographers' Gallery. He covered wars in several countries and was nominated for a Pulitzer for his work in Somalia. He was an outstanding photographer who was well respected by his colleagues and was also very handsome.
He is survived by his wife, Marie Dillon, son, John Dillon (Brooke), daughter, Kelley Dillon (Brian Beutler), mother-of-his-children, Katherine Dillon, grandchildren, Riley and Jack Dillon, brothers, Thomas Dillon (Susan Fitzgerald) and Matthew Dillon, sisters Carroll Dethrow (John), Dori Dillon, Theresa Koper (George), Barbara Bryant (Ed) and Sheila Westrem, and several nieces and nephews.
A Funeral Mass remembering Tim was held on July 13, 2023 at Saint Mary's Church located in Annapolis, MD. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
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