Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography
Every year, Getty Images awards five photojournalists individual grants of $20,000 each, for a total of $100,000. Grant recipients are given the opportunity to sign a one-year exclusive-rights deal with Getty Images whereby their work will be marketed and available for license to customers worldwide through gettyimages.com, while retaining copyright of their imagery.
Application deadline is May 15, 2008. For more information, visit the Getty Images website.
Photography.Book.Now
Online publisher Blurb, Inc. is hosting a photography book competition that celebrates innovative self-published photography books. The grand prize is $25,000. Winners will be invited to attend the awards ceremony in San Francisco and have their work showcased at Photography.Book.Now salon events worldwide.
Submissions are due by July 14, 2008. Visit the Photography.Book.Now website for submission guidelines.
The W. Eugene Smith Grant
The Howard Chapnick Grant
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 compassionate dedication exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. The grant program is independently administered by the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.
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.
Application deadline is July 15, 2008. To download an application, visit the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund website.
Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation, based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize for American photographers. The only prize of its kind, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities. The prize will honor work that is visually compelling, that bears witness, and that has integrity of purpose.
Submissions must be postmarked between June 9 and September 5, 2008. For submission guidelines, visit the CDS website.
