Prix Photographique Ville de Levallois - Epson

Prix Photographique Ville de Levallois : 2008 - present

Another upcoming festival, 4 November - 17 December, celebrating photography and putting a good spotlight on its Prix winner Alexander Gronsky. After seeing his work/website, I'm a fan of his series and wishing to visit the exposition...

"Le Jury du Prix Photographique Ville de Levallois-Epson 2011, réuni mercredi 7 septembre à Levallois, a décidé à l’unanimité de décerner le quatrième Prix Photographique Ville de Levallois – Epson à Alexander Gronsky (Estonie, 1980), pour sa série Mountains & Waters.
Le Prix consiste en une bourse de 10 000 euros assortie de la production d'une exposition dans le cadre de la quatrième édition du festival.
Fidèle à la vocation internationale du Prix, le jury 2011 a rassemblé des professionnels venus d'Europe et d'Asie, qui ont élu son travail parmi 239 dossiers, en provenance de 41 pays".

http://www.photo-levallois.org/fr/

Lauréates

2011 : Alexander Gronsky
2010 : Virginie Terrasse
2009 : Shira Igell
2008 : Marvi Lacar

Lancé en 2008 à l'initiative de la Ville de Levallois, Photo Levallois revient en novembre 2011 pour sa quatrième édition, confirmant son engagement envers la photographie contemporaine sous toutes ses formes. Depuis ses débuts, le festival se veut ouvert aux évolutions de la photographie sans privilégier une tendance particulière, afin d'en restituer la pluralité et la richesse, en faisant la part belle aux jeunes générations et aux échanges avec les autres domaines de création. Des artistes reconnus internationalement ou émergents aux photographes amateurs, tous trouvent leur place dans un événement qui rassemble les grands courants de la photographie contemporaine.

Documentary Photography Projects

Documentary Photography Projects : 2009 - present

Inspirational and very compelling, so totally different from my previous post, are the works or rather stories of these photographers. Have a look yourselves.

Through grantmaking, exhibitions, and training workshops, the Documentary Photography Project supports photographers whose work addresses social justice and human rights issues that coincide with the mission of the Open Society Foundations.

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/multimedia/2009-production-grants-20110511

Production Grants to Photographers from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan, 2009–2010

2009–2010 Production Grantees
Mery Agakhanyan (Armenia): Village Life in Armenia
Barat Ali Batoor (Afghanistan): The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Hayk Bianjyan (Armenia): Forced Evictions: Property Violations in Armenia
Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan): Oil Village: Baku, Azerbaijan
Valeriy Kaliyev (Kazakhstan): Migrant Workers in Kazakhstan
Justyna Mielnikiewicz (Georgia): Old Rules, New Realities
Karen Mirzoyan (Armenia): Suicide in Armenia
Akhtar Soomro (Pakistan): Sheedi Community in Karachi
Farzana Wahidy (Afghanistan): Life for Women in Afghanistan

2011 Production Grantees
Abdujalil Abdurasulov (Kazakhstan), Project: Ethnic Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan
Tahmina Ahmadova (Azerbaijan), Project: Arranged Family Marriages in Azerbaijan
Zturgan Aldauyev (Kazakhstan), Project: Shanyrak in Kazakhstan
Nazik Armenakian (Armenia), Project: LGBT community in Armenia
Davaanyam Delgerjargal (Mongolia), Project: Illegal Logging in Mongolia
Natela Grigalashvili (Georgia), Project: Rural Schools and Social Conditions in Villages in Georgia
Anahit Hayrapetyan (Armenia), Project: Violence Against Women in Armenia
Mehman Huseynov (Azerbaijan), Project: Freedom of Speech in Azerbaijan.

Aftermath Project grant

2012 Aftermath Project grant. Deadline : November 1, 2011

Submissions for the 2012 Aftermath Project grant cycle are now open. Thanks to the ongoing generous support of the Foundation to Promote Open Society, we will be giving one $20,000 grant, as well as naming four finalists. The work of our grant winner and finalists will be published in “War is Only Half
the Story, Vol Six.” 

More information on the website
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The 2011 winner :
David Monteleone

The 2010 winners :
Monika Bulaj, Italy: “Afghanistan: not the war only”
Danny Wilcox Frazier, US: “Wounded Knee: generations endure a massacre”

The 2009 winners :
Asim Rafiqui (Sweden/US) - $25,000 grant, for his project, “The Idea of India: Religious and Cultural Pluralism as Resistance to Sectarian Conflict,” an exploration of the aftermath of religious conflict in India through documenting pluralist landscapes, shared sacred sites, shared cultural traditions and efforts at reconciliation within divided communities.
Louie Palu (Canada) - $15,000 grant, for his project, “Home Front,” which explores and compares the experiences of American Vietnam War veterans, and returning soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Palu’s project focuses on the emotional and psychological issues faced by soldiers who return from war and the long-term effects they deal with as they try to reintegrate into their families and society.

2008 : Kathryn Cook and Natela Grigalashvili

2007 : Jim Goldberg and Wolf Böwig
The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization committed to telling 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.

Alexia foundation grant

Deadline : January 17, 2012.

The professional Alexia Grant recipient will receive $15,000 for the production of the proposed project. See the student rules for information about the student competition.
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More on the website

Previous winners and photo gallery (a good new feature on the new website) :

(www.walterastrada.com)

Bharat Choudhary and Amanda Berg, Bob Miller (2011)
Louie Palu and Juliette Lynch (2010)
Walter Astrada and Carl Kiilsgaard (2009)
Stephanie Sinclair and Matt Eich (2008)
("The professional winner for personal reasons relinquished the award") - Jeffrey Fehder (2007)
Balazs Gardi and Melanie Blanding (2006)
Marcus Bleasdale and Erika Schultz (2005)
Roger Lemoyne and Marie Arago (2004)
Matt Black and Christopher Capozziello (2003)
Kai Wiedenhoefer and Justin J. Yurkanin (2002)
Jan Dago and Tom Mason (2001)

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. Through grants and scholarships, The Alexia Foundation supports photographers as agents for change.

Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association Grant

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 Europe endowment of 8 000 euros which will be given to a photo- journalist.

The award is presented to a professional photographer of any age, sex or nationality who wishes to cover a social, economic, political or cultural issue in a journalistic manner. The Award is given in order to allow the winner to produce a story that has never been told but that the photographer cannot find support for within the media. The work has to be completed only by a photographer alone.

http://www.viiphoto.com/association.html 

2010

Winner : Lizzie Sadin

For her project "Promised Land, Promised Women." The grant, supported by Canon Europe for an amount of 8,000 euros, will help Lizzie Sadin investigate and document the traffic of women in Israel,
"imported" to work primarily in the sex industry.

2009

Winner : Margaret Crow

2008
The first Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Association Grant, has been attributed to Jean Chung.

For a proposal on « Tears in Congo ». Jean has already worked in the various hospitals and clinics in Congo. She plans to complete the story in showing the women in their environment both before and after; and to further document their lives after the hospitals to see how they re-integrate into the society they used to belong to. The 8.000 € grant is supported by Canon Europe and the pictures should be presented next year in the 21st Visa pour l'Image - Perpignan.

Emerging Photographer Grant

Burn - Emerging Photographer Grant : 2008 - 2012

The 2012 EPF submissions will open early 2012.

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.

Anyone can enter the EPF Grant, there are no age restrictions… however, it is intended for  emerging photographers, who are the icons of tomorrow and not today…

http://www.burnmagazine.org/emerging-photographer-grant/

The 2011 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Irina Werning for her essay ‘Back to the Future’.

The 2010 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Davide Monteleone for his essay ‘Northern Caucasus’.

The 2009 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Alejandro Chaskielberg for his 8×10 format essay on the Parana River Delta.

The 2008 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Sean Gallagher for his essay on the environmental Desertification of China.

National Geographic Magazine Grant

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PDN brought us the news that Alessandra Sanguinetti is this year’s winner of the National Geographic Magazine Grant for Photography.

Wonderful, fascinating photography! As the news and her portfolio is not yet flagged on the NGM's website, see her work on Magnum's website. Yes, she is a nominee since 2007.

Any professional photographer whose primary source of income is his or her photography is eligible. Applications will be accepted from Nov. 1, 2008, through Feb. 15, 2009. The application process will require a written statement outlining a proposed or current project and examples of the applicant's photography. The work presented should demonstrate an ability to competently photograph the project being undertaken or proposed.

Grant for photography $ 50,000.

"We will be looking for a photographic project that improves our understanding and appreciation of the unique world in which we live”, said David Griffin.

Read all on the website and download the rules and application

Winner 2008 : Jonas Bendiksen, who is documenting the population explosion in Chongqing, a city in western China. View his portfolio.

Winner 2007 : Eugene Richards, has covered people profoundly affected by the conflict in Iraq. See portfolio.

OSI Moving Walls group exhibition

Moving Walls 16 Photographers

Stefano De Luigi: "Tortoise Community: The Innocence's Reconstruction"
Benjamin Lowy: "Iraq / Perspectives"
Eugene Richards: "War Is Personal"
Tomas van Houtryve: "Nepal: The Fall of a God King"
Paolo Woods: "Chinafrica"
Zalmai: "Afghanistan"

Follow the links on the website

The exhibition will open on October 1, 2009, in the OSI New York City office and move to the Washington, D.C., office in the fall of 2010.

Call for Proposals: Moving Walls 16 Documentary Photography Exhibition, group exhibition

Deadline : 5 December 2008
Guidelines and more information on the website

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Moving Walls 15 aims to visually represent the transitional condition of open societies and the promotion and maintenance of democratic values. It is an artistic interpretation of obstacles—such as political oppression, economic instability, and racism—and the struggles to tear those barriers down. Moving Walls 15 includes six photographers covering a range of social justice and human rights issues of significance to OSI.

View the exhibition Moving Walls 15

Since its inception in 1998, Moving Walls has featured over 100 photographers whose works address a variety of social justice and human rights issues that coincide with the Open Society Institute's mission.

W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography 2009

W. Eugene Smith learned the hard way that photography could be too easy, a matter of making expert images of interesting subjects. He set himself to learn the truth - about himself as well as his subjects. In the process, he produced a series of photographic essays, for LIFE and other publications, whose passionate involvement set a standard for what photography can be.

Yearly. For 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. For 2009, 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 for receipt of applications : (May 15, 2009) extended to June 1.

W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography

2008 Recipient: Mikhael Subotzky

2007 : Stephen Dupont for Narcostan | the perils of freedom
2006 : Paolo Pellegrin
2005 : Pep Bonet
2004 : Trent Parke
2003 : Stanley Greene
2002 : Kai Wiedenhöfer
2001 : Maya Goded
2000 : Brenda Ann Kenneally
1999 : Chien-Chi Chang
1998 : Ernesto Bazan
1997 : Alain Keler
1996 : Gideon Mendel
1995 : Vladimir Syomin
1994 : Ellen Binder
1993 : James Nachtwey
1993 : Marc Asnin
1992 : Eli Reed
1991 : Dario Mitidieri
1990 : Carl DeKeyzer
1989 : Cristina Garcia Rodero
1988 : Paul Graham
1987 : Graciela Iturbide
1986 : John Vink
1985 : Letizia Battaglia
1985 : Donna Ferrato
1984 : Gilles Peress
1983 : Milton Rogovin
1982 : Sebastião Salgado
1981 : Eugene Richards
1980 : Jane Evelyn Atwood

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.

Humble Arts Foundation Grant

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Humble Arts Foundation established the Grant for Emerging Photographers in 2007 to help support fine art photography projects in the U.S. and abroad.

Given twice annually (fall and spring), the grant is a $1,000 cash award that recognizes the strongest new proposal in contemporary art photography as submitted to Humble Arts Foundation.

Deadline: March 27, 2009. A $15 application fee is due when you apply.

More on the website

Recipients :
Michael Bühler-Rose | Fall 2008
Ofer Wolberger | Spring 2008
Molly Landreth | Fall 2007

Humble Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that works to advance the careers of emerging fine-art photographers by way of exhibition and publishing opportunities, limited-edition print sales, twice–annual artists grants, and educational programming. Founded in 2005 by amani olu and Jon Feinstein, Humble has been a pioneering hub for showcasing new fine-art photography, and has served as a resource for collectors, galleries, museums, curators, photo editors, and bloggers internationally.

Getty images grants for editorial photography and grants for Good

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Yes, another good one ! With my part time work at a foundation working in international development cooperation, I can only agree of course with such grants and the photos that raise awareness for world issues as poverty, crisis, injustice and the non profits that help people. (Could our organisation initiate a grant project with a Southern photographer?).

Getty Images introduces new “GRANTS FOR GOOD” program. Two New Grants Expand Program and Support Photographers’ Work With Non-profits.

SEATTLE, NEW YORK and LONDON – FEBRUARY 19, 2009 – Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, today announced an expansion of its photographer grant program to involve the creative community, whose work often benefits the non-profit sector. Getty Images Grants for Good will award two photographers $15,000 each to cover costs associated with creating compelling imagery to raise awareness about the issues and work of a non-profit they admire.

Deadlines 15 April and 15 May 2009

All details on both grants on the new grants website

Grant recipients

The winners September 2008 : Eugene Richards, Lynsey Addario and David Gillanders.

February 2008 Grant winners : Ian Martin, Lorena Ros. Read about their projects in South Africa and America.

Winners 2007 : Jonathan Lowenstein, Leo Maguire, Jonathan Torgovnik, Ziyah Gafic and Christopher Anderson.

Winners 2006 : Sarah Caron, Rena Effendi, Simon Roberts, Kristen Ashburn, Andrew Testa.

Winners 2005 : Balazs Gardi, Scott Lewis, Kai Wiedenhöefer, David S. Holloway, Dario Mitidieri.

Getty images | community involvement

Nikon Reportage Social Photo Documentary Grant 2008

ARCHIVED : Nikon Reportage Grant
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The winner of the 2008 grant informed me that this competition was missing on my blog. Michael Hagedorn shares this opportunity with us all. Thank you. And congratulations with your grant. Also success with your project.

Reportage's aim is to inform, share and inspire the visual community and the general public alike. The festival also provides an opportunity to celebrate the camaraderie that keeps the profession of independent photography alive.

Entering into Reportage is free and open to local and international professional photojournalists and students of photojournalism.

It´s a bi-annual competition.

More on the website

Hasselblad stipends 2009

Stipends for 2009 now open

The Victor Fellowships
Application deadline February 23, 2009

The fellowships are open to individuals holding a Bachelor’s degree or a Master’s degree, respectively, in photography, fine arts or photo journalism, with the main focus on still photography. The applicant must:
1. be holder of a degree from an institute of higher education in the Nordic countries or be a Nordic citizen who completed a degree elsewhere.
2. have graduated in 2007 or 2008 or expect to have graduated by June 2009.
3. be proficient in the English language.

More on Hasselblad Foundation website

Howard Chapnick Grant 2009

For the advancement of photojournalism

Deadline for Application: May 15, 2009

"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.

The annual $5,000 grant may be used to finance any of a range of qualified undertakings, which might include a program of further education, research, a special long-term sabbatical project, or an internship to work with a noteworthy group or individual. According to the Fund's Board of Trustees, special consideration will be given to projects that promote social change and/or serve significant concerns of photojournalism. The grant is not intended to be used for the production of photographs, which will continue to be funded by the main grant of the Smith Fund."

More on the W. Eugene Smith Fund website

Ren Yue of China won the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism for the project "New Topographics: Beijing's Contemporary Urban Landscapes." She is a professor of photojournalism in Beijing who is overseeing a group of photographers who are documenting the changes in Beijing's landscape caused by this year's Summer Olympic Games. Source NPPA - 23 October 2008

OSI Discretionary Grants

Discretionary Grants

The Documentary Photography Project awards small discretionary grants on a case-by-case basis to work that has broad impact in the photographic community.

See the grantee list on the website