Inge Morath Award 2013
The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation announce the 12th annual Inge Morath Award. The annual award of $5,000 is given to a female photographer under the age of 30, to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One award winner and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum photographers and the director of the Inge Morath Foundation.
Submissions must be made by April 30, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Inge Morath website.
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography
We believe that photojournalism is a powerful tool for telling compelling social, political and cultural stories. We also understand that creating and managing world-class photography assignments requires time, freedom, support and considerable resources.
That is why we continue to offer the Grants for Editorial Photography, which provides five total grants of $20,000 each to photojournalists pursuing projects of personal and journalistic significance. In 2012 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography will award four of five $20,000 grants through our annual application proposal process, with applications being accepted beginning April 1 and will require a one-page summary of the project proposal, a short bio, and 20-25 images. In addition, one grant will be awarded, in conjunction with The Chris Hondros Fund, for extraordinary news coverage of a current event.
Submissions must be made by May 1, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Getty Images website.
Emerging Photographer Grant 2013
The Emerging Photographer Fund grant was initiated by David Alan Harvey in 2008, and is awarded by the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit created by the member photographers from Magnum Photos, Inc. Funding 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.
Submissions must be made by May 5, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Burn Magazine website.
City of Levallois Photography Award 2013
As part of the Photo Levallois Festival, which will take place October 4–November 16 2013, the city of Levallois will be awarding a photography prize to support young international contemporary creation, and discover and promote new talents. This prize will reward the work of an individual, regardless of nationality, aged 35 at the most on October 4 2013. Photographers must present their own new work, which has not been previously published or exhibited. The selection panel will pay particular attention to the consistency of the artistic approach in its form and content. This prize is open to all practices of contemporary photography. This prize includes the sum of 10,000 euros and the opportunity for the winner to exhibit their work as part of the Photo Levallois Festival, at L'Escale gallery, 25 rue de la Gare, 92300 Levallois.
Submissions must be made by May 20, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Photo Levallois website.
2013 Individual Photographer's Fellowship
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. The Foundation seeks to support artists/photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field, who are professionally active or employed in the field. The entry fee for this grant is $10.
Apply by May 24, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Aaron Siskind Foundation website.
W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography & Howard Chapnick Grant
The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography was established in 1978 following the death of Gene Smith, the legendary American photo essayist. It is today the most prestigious honor in documentary photography. Every year it recognizes a photographer who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to documenting the human condition in the spirit of Smith's concerned photography and dedicated compassion.
In 1996 the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund announced a new award, the Howard Chapnick Grant, to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing research, education and management. The Grant was established to honor the memory of Howard Chapnick, and acknowledge the value of his enormous contribution to photography.
Apply by May 31, 2013. For guidelines, visit the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund website.
Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Association Award 2013
The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Association, created to promote the work of Pierre & Alexandra Boulat and encourage the work of photojournalists has created an award, supported by a CANON endowment of €8,000, which will be given to a photojournalist.
Apply by June 7, 2013. For more information, visit the VII website.
Audience Engagement Grant
The Audience Engagement Grant supports photographers to take an existing body of work on a social justice or human rights issue and devise an innovative and effective way of using that work as a tool for social change. We are looking for projects that serve as interventions on pressing problems and provide concrete ways for photographers, organizations, and their target audiences to create a positive impact.
Apply by June 18, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Open Society Foundations website.
JGS Quarterly Photography Contest
Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS) established in 2009 an ongoing international quarterly contest that encourages artists to share their unique perspective. Quarterly winners will receive $1,000 and their work will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Forward Thinking Museum. Annual winners will receive the JGS Artist Award in the amount of $5,000 and their work will be featured in a solo exhibition at the FTM.
Submissions must be made by June 30, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Forward Thinking Museum website.
Unseen Dummy Award 2013
Unseen and Lecturis have designed a photobook dummy award to showcase the work of exceptional photographers from around the world and to give them a chance to realize and publish their dummy photobook. The Unseen Dummy Award will give the winning photographer an entry into the international photography industry.
Submissions must be made by July 1, 2013. For guidelines, visit the Unseen website.
En Foco's New Works Photography Fellowship Awards
En Foco's New Works Photography Fellowship Awards is an annual program selecting several U.S. based photographers of Latino, African, or Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and Pacific, through a free, national call for entries. New Works helps artists to create or complete an in-depth photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and provides the infrastruct