Alexia Foundation Professional & Student Grant
Submission period: October – January. “The Alexia
Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social
injustice, to respect history lest we forget it and to understand
cultural difference as our strength – not our weakness”.
Blue Earth’s Grant
Submission period: July – January and January – July. “Blue
Earth sponsors documentary projects whose goal is to educate the public
about critical environmental and social issues. We are primarily
interested in work that is educational and informational in nature and
will consider proposals of any geographic scope involving the
photographic and motion picture mediums”.
FotoEvidence Book Award
Submission period: November – January.
“The annual FotoEvidence Book Award will recognize a documentary
photographer whose project demonstrates courage and commitment in
addressing a violation of human rights, a significant injustice or an
assault on human dignity. The selected project will be published in a
book, as part of a series of FotoEvidence books dedicated to the work of
photographers whose commitment and courage create an awareness of
social injustice”.
CENTER’s Project Launch Grant
Submission period: December – January. “The
Project Launch is presented to an outstanding photographer working in
fine art series or documentary project. The grant includes a cash award
to help complete or disseminate the works as well as providing a
platform for exposure and professional development opportunities”.
CENTER’s Project Development Grant
Submission period: January – February. “The Project
Development Grant offers financial support to fine art, documentary or
photojournalist works-in-progress. The grant includes a cash award to
help complete a project as well as platforms for feedback and
professional development opportunities for the works final stages”.
Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship
Submission period: November – February.
“The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professionals and emerging
talent who progress the art form of still photography through original
subject matter, content, or processes. Our support of photography is
broad, from photojournalism to fashion photography, digital to medium
format, including every other category and subcategory”.
Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant
Submission period: December – February. “PMH
2014 Grant is an important occasion to see your work recognized by an
outstanding jury in front of an international public. It is a great
moment to gain visibility and create yourself new opportunities”.
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film Grant
Submission period: November – March. “We
invite documentary photographers around the globe to submit their
documentary photo project proposals highlighting human unrest, forgotten
communities, over-exploited people and environments impacted by war,
povery, famine, disease, exploitation and global distress”.
Crusade Engagement Grant
Submission period: February – April.
“Crusade for Art aims to educate, inspire, and support artists to create
unique, approachable programs that bring new audiences to art and allow
them to engage with art in a meaningful way. By inspiring, mentoring,
teaching, and funding, Crusade for Art will empower artists to focus on
creating demand for art and thereby encourage systemic changes to create
a new crop of art lovers, patrons, and collectors”.
Inge Morath Award
Submission period: February – April . “The
annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman photographer under thirty
years of age, to assist in the completion of a long term documentary
project. The winner and finalists are selected by the photographer
members of Magnum Photos and a representative of the Morath Foundation
at the Magnum annual meeting”.
Marine Conservation Photography Grant
Submission period: February – April. “The
Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) believes that photography is a powerful
tool for marine conservation. We seek emerging conservation, wildlife
and environmental photographers with a passion for marine subjects to
apply for an unprecedented annual photography grant. SOSF has set aside
US$40,000 to invest directly in marine conservation photographers of the
future”.
Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
Submission period: March – May. “The Aaron
Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual
Photographer’s Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists
working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be
determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of
artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future
achievement in the medium in its widest sense”.
Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
Submission period: February – May. “The
Dorothea Lange-Paul Taloyr Prize was created to encourage collaboration
between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the
acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist
Paul Taylor”.
Eugene Smith Grant
Submission period: March – May. “The W.
Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a
photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel
of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s concerned
photography and dedicated compassion exhibited during his 45-year career
as a photographic essayist”.
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography
Submission period: April – May. “We
believe that photojournalism is a powerful tool for telling compelling
social, political and cultural stories. That is why we continue to offer
the Grants for Editorial photography, to help photojournalists pursue
projects of personal and journalistic significance”.
Getty Images Emerging Talent Award
Submission period: April – May. “Each year, to
complement our Grants for Editorial Photography, we offer an opportunity
for young photographers to receive mentoring and support through our
Emerging Talent Award”.
Getty Images Creative Grants
Submission period: April – May. “Getty Images
proudly supports photographers, filmmakers and communications
professionals who use their talents to promote positive change in our
world. The Getty Images Creative Grants help these creative visionaries
as they work together to create new, compelling imagery or video for a
nonprofit organization of their choice”.
Imagely Fund
Submission period: April – May. “The
Imagely Fund offers a $5000 grant to a photographer to help fund one
humanitarian or environmental photography project each grant cycle. Our
goal is to provide support for projects that will have a tangible and
positive impact on the world”.
Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant
Submission period: April – June. “Unlike
the first Women’s Initiative grant, which specifically focused on abuse
of women in the United States, this call for entries is intended to
permit the photographer to propose a serious documentary photographic or
multimedia project encompassing any issue involving women anywhere in
the world”.
Burn Magazine’s Emerging Photographer Fund
Submission period: May – July. “The
Emerging Photographer Grant is designed to support continuation of a
photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be of either
journalistic mission or purely personal artistic imperatives. The
primary intent is to support emerging photographers who will become the
icons of tomorrow”.
Howard Chapnick Grant
Submission period: June – July. “The
Howard Chapnick Grant was established to encourage and support
leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing
research, education and management”.
Ian Parry Scholarship
Submission period: June – July. “Each year
we hold an international photographic competition for young
photographers who are either attending a full-time photographic course
or are under 24”.
LightWork Artist-in-Residence
Submission period: October – July. “Each
year Light Work invites 12-15 artists to participate in its residency
program, including one artist co-sponsored by Autograph ABP and one
artist in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP). Artists
selected for the residency program are invited to live in Syracuse for
one month”.
Firecracker Photographic Grant
Submission period: June – August. “The
Firecracker Photographic Grant is an annual award providing funding for a
female photographer to aid with the completion of a documentary
photographic project”.
Photogravphy Grant
Submission period: March – August. “Our
grant is open for submissions without any fees (Free to Enter) to
support all photographers from every corner of the world. We only accept
series of photographs which share a common theme and are built as a one
consistent project in the following categories: City, Fine Art,
Outdoor, Story, People. We do believe that it will help a photographer
to proceed and complete his project. The Grand Prize winner and
finalists will be selected by the most respected names in photographic
world”.
APA / Lucie Foundation Scholarship
Submission period: March – September.
“The
Lucie Foundation is proud to support professionals and emerging talent
who progress the art form of still photography through original subject
matter, content, or processes. Our support of photography is broad, from
photojournalism to fashion photography, digital to medium format,
including every other category and subcategory”.
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
Submission period: July – September. “Created
in 2009, by the Carmignac Gestion Foundation, Carmignac Gestion
photojournalism Award invites documentary photographers and
photojournalists from around the world to submit a long-term reportage
on a particular theme”.
Silvereye Fellowship
Submission period: August – October. “This
juried competition identifies and recognizes both rising talent and
established photographers from all corners of the globe and from the
state of Pennsylvania”.
Tim Hetherington Grant
Submission period: September – October. “The
grant is open to professional photographers who have participated in a
recent World Press Photo Contest and applications are accepted in
October every year. The grant celebrates the legacy of photojournalist
and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed when a group of
journalists came under fire during fighting between rebels and General
Gaddafi’s forces in Misrata, Libya in April 2011”.
Gomma Photography Grant
Submission period: August – November. “We
know that 1000 Euros will not enable you to go and shoot the aborigines
in Papua Guinea but we do believe that it will help a photographer to
proceed with and, hopefully, complete an ongoing work. We are fully
aware of the costs that photographers have to face on a daily basis so
we at Gomma have decided to light up our own Karmic balance and had come
up with a new grant for photographers”.
Focus for Humanity’s NGO Grant
Submission period: October – December. “This
is a significant grant given annually for a working photographer to
undertake a paid assignment with an NGO of their choice”.
The Aftermath Project
Submission period: October – December.
“The Aftermath Project’s mission is to support photographic projects
that tell the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it
takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed
lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering
wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. Grant
proposals should reflect an understanding of this mission”.
VSCO Artist Initiative
Submission period: submission accepted on a rolling basis.
“The
VSCO® Artist Initiative is a $1,000,000USD grant and movement of
solidarity that provides artists the resources to pursue their creative
vision. The Initiative honors art and artist by discovering, funding,
advising, and promoting creatives from all corners of the globe”.
JGS Quarterly Photography Contest
Submission period: multiple call for entries per year, and with varying dates – check website for details. “Joy
of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS) established in 2009 an ongoing juried,
international photography contest that encourages artists eighteen years
and older to submit their own new work, which has not been previously
published or exhibited”.
Open Society Foundations
Submission period: multiple call for entries per year, and with varying dates – check website for details. “The
Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies
whose governments are accountable to their citizens”.
Reminders Photography Stronghold Grants
Submission period: multiple call for entries per year, and with varying dates – check website for details. “Using
our global network, we will be supporting the publicizing of
photographers and their works, your photographic presentation or
campaign, or your book launch. Any alternative proposal on photography
for the best use for this gallery space is welcome – but all proposals
will be reviewed and only successful proposal will receive this grant”.
Rory Peck Assistance Grants
Submission period: multiple call for entries per year, and with varying dates – check website for details.
“Our assistance grants are modest but they are targeted so that they
meet the specific needs of the freelancer or family. Amounts and target
areas vary according to the particular circumstances of the applicant
but examples include medical and rehabilitation costs, emergency
subsistence, legal advice, and relocation costs. Our aim is to help
grantees overcome a crisis and, where possible, resume work”.
Rory Peck Training Fund
Submission period: multiple call for entries per year, and with varying dates – check website for details.
“The Rory Peck Training Fund makes hostile environment training
affordable for freelancers. Since its launch in 2000, the Fund has given
over 500 bursaries to freelance journalists, photographers, cameramen
and filmmakers, enabling them to gain the vital skills and knowledge
needed for work in hostile environments”
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The Documentary Project Fund
Submission period: multiple call for entries per year, and with varying dates – check website for details.
“TheDocumentaryProjectFund was founded in 2012 as a 501(c)(3) to help
make sure that photographers who want to tell the stories of their
communities will be able to do so. We are here to encourage, through
project support, photographers who have a community focus and a good
story to tell. We believe that still photography, especially the
documentary form, can be an incredibly powerful art. We can admire the
beauty of each image, be challenged to think about the issues raised and
come away with our biases tested”.
