Alexia Foundation Professional & Student Grants
For 30 years, Alexia Grants have supported student and professional visual journalists, helping them produce projects that inspire change by addressing socially significant topics. The Alexia 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.
Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant
The women’s initiative grant, supports the photographer to propose a serious documentary photographic or multimedia project encompassing any issue involving women anywhere in the world.
Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award
The Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award was created to honor the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer and IWMF Courage in Journalism Award winner Anja Niedringhaus (1965-2014). With this Award, the IWMF celebrates the courage of women photojournalists like Anja. The Award recognizes the importance of visual journalistic work that inspires us to take action and compels us to better understand the world. Created in 2014 with a $1 million gift from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Award will be given annually to a woman photojournalist whose work reflects courage and dedication, as Anja’s did. The Award winner will be publicly honored, have her work showcased, and receive a cash prize of $20,000.
The Arab Documentary Photography Program
The Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) is an initiative that provides support and mentorship to photographers from across the Arab region. The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture in partnership with Magnum Foundation and the Prince Claus Fund established the ADPP to stimulate compelling work by Arab Photographers working across a range of experimental styles of storytelling.
Burn Magazine: The Emerging Photographer Fund
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.
Canon Female Photojournalism Award
Organised annually by the French Association des Femmes Journalistes and Canon France, the contest has run since 2000. The winning photographer receives €8000 to finish a photojournalistic project, which will then be shown the following year at the Visa pour l’Image festival. The competition is open to women photojournalists of any age and nationality.
Catchlight
The inaugural CatchLight Fellowship of $30,000 each will be awarded annually to three creative leaders in the field of visual storytelling who have demonstrated excellence in the novel use of photography to depict and bring awareness to challenging social issues. The grants will build on work by each of the fellows with potential to achieve a next level of excellence in visual storytelling, innovation in distribution and measurable social impact.
The Chris Hondros Fund
The Chris Hondros Fund recognises and supports photojournalists and photographers who show exceptional skill in telling stories that might otherwise go unreported or unnoticed. Each year the Fund’s board of Directors and advisory board work together to choose awardees.
FotoEvidence Book Award
The annual FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo 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 as part of a series of FotoEvidence books dedicated to long-form projects of documentary photographers working in the humanistic tradition.
Fondation Carmignac Photojournalism Award
Edouard Carmignac created the Carmignac Photojournalism Award in 2009 to support photographers in the field. Directed by Emeric Glayse, it funds annually the production of an investigative photo reportage on human rights violations, geostrategic issues in the world. Selected by an international jury, the laureates receive a €50,000 grant to carry out a 6-month field report. Fondation Carmignac produces upon their return, a travelling exhibition and the publication of a monograph. At the end of each edition, four photographs bequeathed by the laureates are included in the Carmignac collection.
Getty Images Editorial Grant for Photography Programs
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.
Gomma Photography Grant
Has been funding cutting-edge and emerging work through this grant since 2014. The grant awards a €1000 cash prize together with worldwide international exposure through the Gomma social network and media partners.
Imagely Fund
Until December 2020 the Imagely Fund offered 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. The Imagely Fund is indefinitely on pause.
Inge Morath Award
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 members of Magnum Photos and a representative of the Morath Foundation at the Magnum annual meeting.
Innovate Grant for Photographers
Innovate Grant awards (2) $550.00 grants each quarter, to one Photographer and one Visual Artist, to act as a spark of financial support that ignites your creative development. In addition to receiving a grant award, winners will be featured and recognized on our website and join a growing community of vibrant and talented visual artists.
Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship
The Lucie Foundation supports professionals and emerging talent who progress the art form of still photography through original subject matter, content, or processes. The support of photography is broad, from photojournalism to fashion photography, digital to medium format, including every other category and sub-category.
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film Grant
Documentary photographers from around the world are invited to submit documentary photography projects along with a 15-image supporting portfolio on topics of human suffering and unrest, forgotten communities, exploited lands and people, on communities ravaged by war, poverty, famine, disease, and the exploitation of global resources.
Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant
PHmuseum is also known for its Grant, an international photographic prize that is organised with the aim of supporting photographers and awarding the best visual stories of the year. Max Pinckers, Diana Markosian, Tomas Van Houtryve, Catherine Schneiderman and Rasmus Degnmol are among the past editions winners, while Martin Parr (Magnum), Kathy Ryan (New York Times), Alec Soth (Magnum), François Hébel (Foto Industria) and Iatã Cannabrava (Estudio Madalena) among the former jurors.
Photoville's THE FENCE
The FENCE is a year-round large-scale public traveling photography exhibition reaching over 4 million visitors annually through open-air exhibitions in 7 cities across the United States: Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Santa Fe, Durham, and Denver. Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work for consideration by the jury. The submitted work should fit one or more of our 7 thematic categories: Home, Streets, People, Creatures, Nature, Play, and Food.
POYi
POYi began as a photographic contest in the spring of 1944 in Columbia, Missouri, when the Missouri School of Journalism sponsored its "First Annual Fifty-Print Exhibition" contest. Its stated purpose was, "to pay tribute to those press photographers and newspapers which, despite tremendous war-time difficulties, are doing a splendid job; to provide an opportunity for photographers of the nation to meet in open competition; and to compile and preserve...a collection of the best in current, home-front press pictures.
POY Latam
POY Latam was created by Loup Langton and Pablo Corral Vega in 2011 to celebrate excellence in documentary and artistic photography in Ibero-America. It has become the largest and one of the most important competitions in the region. POY Latam is not for profit and seeks to reach the general public through the organization of the contest, exhibitions, workshops and publications. Unlike most other contests, the judging is transparent and broadcast live.
The Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award
Since 1997, each year, Médicos del Mundo Spain has organised the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award dedicated to the memory four of the organisation’s aid workers who were killed in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina while they provided humanitarian aid. Photographs must be related to any of the following themes: humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, human rights violations, armed conflicts, natural disasters, refugee and immigrant populations or socially excluded groups.
The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award
The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award, sponsored by LaScam (société civile des auteurs multimedia), is designed to help a photographer carry out an original reporting project through an 8,000€ endowment. The grant will fund the production of a story that traditional media outlets have yet to support. Entry is free. This award was established by the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association to promote the creation of documentary work with a social purpose. Formed in the memory of Pierre and Alexandra Boulat by friends and family after the death of VII founding member Alexandra Boulat in 2007, the Association seeks to keep the spirit of father and daughter alive through making their work available to the public and creating an annual grant to a photographer and sponsoring the education of young photographers.
Tim Hetherington Fellowship
The fellowship will assist visual storytellers by providing access to training or mentorship so they can further their projects and mission. Fellows will become part of sustainable network focused on innovative processes and permanent education. The fellows from each year will become part of the network and will play a role in selecting new fellows. The aim is to grow and strengthen a network of multiple skills that provides on-going support. The selected fellow will receive an award of €5000, to be provided equally by the Tim Hetherington Trust and the World Press Photo Foundation and its partners. The World Press Photo Foundation is also approaching organizations to join this initiative and add financial benefits or other value in order to expand the fellowship circle.
Tokyo International Photography Competition
There are numerous competitions whose aim is to discover new photographic talent from around the globe, but many of these opportunities are often beyond the reach of those who do not speak a certain language or have a deep understanding of a particular culture. This has often been the case for Japanese photographers trying to enter foreign markets and for foreigners wanting to present and exhibit their work in Japan. Recognising these difficulties, the TIPC was created to provide an opportunity for photographers to present their artistic visions beyond their country’s borders and open up the possibilities for cross-pollinations and cross-border collaborations. Each year, a jury composed of acclaimed photography professionals from around the world nominate 8 talented photographers whose work is exhibited as part of an international traveling exhibition.
Visura Grants
The Visura Photojournalism Grant, FotoVisura Grant, and Multimedia Grant empower photojournalists by supporting their work, mission, and career. Visura awards each winner with a $5000 cash prize.
W.Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
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. In 2021 five photographers whose work follows the tradition of compassionate photojournalism will be awarded $10,000 each.
Women Photograph 2023 Mentorships
The program will pair 24 industry leaders (12 photographers and 12 photo editors, curators and educators) with 24 early-career photojournalists over the course of a year. Mentors include editors and photographers from The New York Times, and The Guardian, the Associated Press, and Apple, among others.
World Press Photo
The annual photo contest rewards photographers for the best single exposure pictures contributing to the past year of visual journalism. Whether entered as singles or stories, these pictures are judged in terms of their accurate, fair, and visually compelling insights about our world. The contest is organized into categories, and judged by a jury comprising leading photojournalism professionals.
Yannis Behrakis Photojournalism Grants Program
Reuters Pictures reuters.com/pictures is offering ten grants of $8,000 USD for photojournalists and students to produce a photo project and develop their visual storytelling skills. Successful stories will be distributed on Reuters platforms and Reuters Pictures editors will mentor recipients throughout their projects. Grantees will also receive Reuters instruction, including reporting and hostile environment training.