Yesterday’s LicenseStream blog post delivered five tips for writing grants that might help you secure the funding you need to keep body and soul together while you pursue a personal photography project.
Now that you have a basic overview of the steps to take, this is a good time to start looking at specific funding sources. Below we list five sources of specific grants and awards for the 2010-2011 year. Deadlines are listed at the end of each description. For more information about each grant, click on the name of the grant or funding source. In addition, see below for links to sites that list a range of grants. Good luck!
- Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant: The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of fellowship grants for the 2010 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship of up to $7,000 each, for individual artists working in still photography and photo-based art. Grant recipients and award amounts will be determined by a review panel based on artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium in its widest sense. Recipients will be notified of awards in the late summer of 2010. Application period: March 1-May 17, 2010.
- Inge Morath Award: Named for an Austrian-born photographer who was associated with the well-known photographic cooperative Magnum Photos for nearly 50 years and who devoted much of her enthusiasm to encouraging women photographers. This annual prize of $5,000 awarded is by the Magnum Foundation to a female documentary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term project. One award and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum photographers. Winners are announced in July 2010 on the websites of the Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation. Deadline: April 30, 2010.
- Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography: Since 2005, Getty Images has awarded five Grants for Editorial Photography annually to professional photojournalists. Each grant provides $20,000, plus editorial, logistical and promotional support. Getty Images also awards four student grants of $5,000 per year to photojournalism students at accredited schools. The goal is to enable photojournalists to pursue projects about which they are passionate and that focus on significant social and cultural issues. Deadline: May 1, 2010.
- The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography: W. Eugene Grant was a photographer born in the American heartland (Wichita, Kansas) and perhaps best known for brutally vivid World War II photographs. The award named for him is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith's concerned photography and the dedicated compassion he exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. It provides photographers with the financial freedom to carry out major photographic essays. For 2010, the amount of the grant will be $30,000. An additional $5,000 in fellowship money will be dispersed, at the discretion of the jury, to one or more finalists deemed worthy of special recognition. Awards will be presented in a ceremony held in New York City in early October. Deadline: May 31. 2010.
- The Alexia Foundation: Known by her peers and professors as one of the most promising photojournalism students at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Alexia Tsairis was a victim of the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. She was returning home for the Christmas holidays after spending a semester at the Syracuse University London Centre. The foundation offers a grant to students and professionals who want to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the Foundation's goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. The professional Alexia Grant recipient will receive $15,000 for the production of the proposed project. Application period: December 6, 2010 - January 14, 2011. December 6, 2010.
Click on the links below to find sites that list a range of grants, including some whose deadlines have passed:
Have an award you'd like to highlight that is not covered in the links above? If so, please suggest it by clicking on the "Comments" link below.
