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National Geographic Young Explorers Grant

The Documentary Project Fund

W. Eugene Smith Grant

VSCO Artist Initiative

Photocrati Fund

Inge Morath Award

HCB Award

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship

Ian Parry Scholarship

Tim Hetherington Grant

Blue Earth

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TABLE of CONTENTSINTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW

Aaron Siskind Foundation’s Individual Photographer’s Fellowship

Alexia Foundation

Carmignac Photojournalism Award

Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Grant

FotoVisura Grant for Outstanding Photography Project or Student Project

Getty Image Grants for Editorial Photography

Crusade Engagement Grant

CENTER’s Project Launch Grant & Project Development Grant

John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award

The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography and Film

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522 ORGANIZATIONS THAT WANT TO FUND YOUR PHOTO PROJECT

IntroYou have a powerful idea for a photography project, but not all the funds you need to make it happen. Sound familiar?

The great news is there are many foundations, non-profits and private companies alike, willing to fund worthy photographers based on talent and project goals. Some offer grants for photojournalists who expose social injustices; others focus on editorial photographers who tell long-form stories. Here’s a round-up of 22 organizations supporting a wide range of photographic genres to get you started.

Photo by Lucas Foglia, recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation’s Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant in 2014

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The Siskind Foundation’s Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant is awarded to artists working with photography or photo-based art. With this specific grant you must be 21 years or older and a U.S. citizen. 2014 winners include Lucas Foglia, Curran Hatleberg, Gillian Laub, Peter van Agtmael, and Tomas van Ho-utryve. You can check out their submission page here.

1. Aaron Siskind Foundation’s Individual Photographer’s Fellowship

STUDENT GRANT

up to $10,000

The Alexia Foundation provides grants and scholarships to photojournalists whose mission focuses on fostering cultural understanding and exposing social injustice. The Alexia Foundation awards multiple grants including a professional and student grant and a Women’s Initiative Grant. Previous winners include Sebastian Liste, Far-zana Hossein and Mehran Hamrahi.

2. Alexia Foundation

STUDENT GRANT

Full Tuition at Syracuse University London Program, $1,000

PROFESSIONAL GRANT

$20,000The Carmignac Photojournalism Award is presented to photojournalists from around the world who want to pursue a long-term reportage project on a specific theme. Themes can range from focusing on an internal conflict, advocations of peace or social justice, or highlighting a gradual change within a nation. Applicants are invited to submit their entries online through the Carmignac Foundation website. Entries should include a series of images and a portfolio that represents the candidate’s work. The Award for 2014 entries will be announced in Summer 2015. No information regarding the next award dates have been announced.

3. Carmignac Photojournalism Award

PRIZE

€50,000

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The Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Grant is provided to aid in the continuation of a photographer’s personal project, whether a documentary project or one of a more artistic aesthetic. Previous winners include Diana Markosian, Iveta Vaivode, Oksana Yushko and Maciej Pisuk. This year’s deadline is May 1st, apply here.

4. Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Grant

Photo by: Diana Markosian

GRANT

$10,000

YOUNG EFP AWARD

$5,000 + $1,000 camera

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5. FotoVisura Grant for Outstanding Photography Project or Student Project

This grant, open only to photographers self-publishing on fotovisura.com, recognizes both outstanding person-al projects and outstanding student projects. Judges look for photographers with powerful images and a strong dedication and commitment to their story—especially if that story is meant to affect positive change in society. You can take a look at the 2014 winners here.

GRANT

$2,000

6. Getty Image Grants for Editorial Photography

Since its launch in 2004, Getty’s Grants for Editorial Photography have celebrated and helped support inde-pendent photojournalism. In 2015 they’ll be providing five total grants of $10,000 each to photojournalists pur-suing personal projects that have journalistic significance. Take a look at 2014 winners, and keep an eye out for 2015 winners, which will be announced in September.

GRANT

$10,000

7. Crusade Engagement Grant

Crusade for Art is an organization that aims to inspire photographers to create new audiences who want to engage with art in a meaningful way. Their $10,000 Crusade Engagement Grant is awarded to an indi-vidual photographer or group of photographers with the most innovative plan for connecting audiences to their work. They look for projects that create a demand for photography and provide a plan to foster real con-nections between the photographer and the audience. Check out the Grant guidelines and FAQs here.

GRANT

$10,000

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8. CENTER’s Project Launch Grant & Project Development Grant

Photo by: Adam Reynolds

CENTER’s Project Launch Grant is awarded to tal-ented photographers working with a fine art series or a documentary project. The $5,000 cash award is intended to help photographers complete their respective projects and provide opportunities for professional development, press and the ability to disseminate their project. In ad-dition to the cash award, the winner will be featured in an exhibition at the Center for Contemporary arts, a Lenscratch publication and more. Guy Martin was the 2014 recipient with his project titled City of Dreams. CENTER also awards a Project Development Grant, which provides financial support to fine art, documen-tary, or photojournalist works-in-progress. Adam Reyn-olds was the 2014 recipient of the grant, with his project titled Architecture of an Existential Threat.

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AWARD

$5,000

PROJECT LAUNCH AWARD

$5,000

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9. John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award

The John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award is presented annually to emerging photographers that demonstrate artistic commitment in artistic photogra-phy. The award is between $5,000-$10,000 and some-times presented to multiple photographers. To be eligi-ble, you must be a U.S. citizen and nominated based on your professional accomplishments. Previous recipients include Soo Kim and Penelope Umbrico.

GRANT

$5,000-10,0000

10. The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography and Film

This grant enables documentary photographers and filmmakers to receive funding for their projects. The cash award is $5,000 for non-fiction works based on social issues such as health, poverty, oppression, war, famine or religious/political persecution. The 2014 Pho-tography Grant recipient is Mohamed Ali Eddin, a free-lance Cairo-based photojournalist. Eddin’s project, Life of Quarry Workers focused on worker exploitation in the Minya governorate in northern Egypt. Details on the application process can be found here.

GRANT

$5,000

11. National Geographic Young Explorers Grant

The National Geographic Young Explorers Grant is unique program that provides between $2,000 and $5,000, to adventure, ancient world, animal, environ-ment, society and culture, and space photographers. To be eligible, you must be between 18 and 25 with the desire to pursue research, conservation and exploration-based projects. There are several programs, such as the Committee for Research and Exploration (CRE), the Expeditions Council (EC), and the Conservation Trust (CT). Each program has a separate application process and awards separate grants. Application details can be found here.

GRANT

$2,000-5,000

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12. The Documentary Project Fund

Photo by: Mafalda Rakos

The Documentary Project Fund is awarded to documen-tary photographers who use photography as a medium for storytelling. They provide voices to impoverished and op-pressed communities. Mafalda Rakos was the March 2014 recipient of the Emerging Vision award for her vision on the issue of body image and eating disorders.

AWARD

$5,000

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13. W. Eugene Smith Grant

The W. Eugene Smith Grant is awarded in honor of the late prolific photo essayist, Eugene Smith. The award is to recognize exemplary talent and vision in documentary photography that highlights the human condition. The 2014 recipient was Joseph Sywenkyj, who had been documenting family strife in his own community in Ukraine.

GRANT

$30,000

14. VSCO Artist Initiative

The popular app and social network, VSCO, has created a $1,000,000 grant to provide photographers with funds and resources to pursue their creative vision. Since its in-ception, the program has awarded 24 photographers with grants of varying sizes, which is determined at the discre-tion of VSCO. Applicants must be VSCO members.

GRANT

Varies

15. Photocrati Fund

The Photocrati Fund provides grants to pro and emerg-ing photographers focusing on humanitarian or envi-ronmental projects. Unlike many grants which might be awarded on the basis of photography alone, Photocrati also considers how a photographer’s background and training have prepared him/her for the project.

GRANT

$5,000

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16. Inge Morath Award

Photo by: Shannon Jensen

Established by the members of Magnum Photos, the annual Inge Morath Award is presented to a female photographer under thirty who shows exemplary prow-ess in the documentary photography field. The award is a means to fund a long term documentary project and is awarded each July. In 2014, Shannon Jansen won for her project titled A Long Walk. The project featured stun-ning shots of the shoes of refugees who fled the Blue Nile State to reach the border of South Sudan.

GRANT

$5,000

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17. HCB Award

The Henri Cartier-Bresson Award is open to photog-raphers with “an approach close to that of documen-tary” and is awarded every other year. Former award winners include Larry Towell, Josef Koudelka, and Chris Killip—in other words, competition is stiff, but the prize is large.

GRANT

€35,000

18. Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

Duke University administers the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, which seeks to encourage collaboration between photographers and writers on a documentary subject. The progressive prize now accepts audio, graphic novel and motion for consideration. Previous prize win-ners include photojournalist Teru Kuwayama who now works at Facebook as lead photographer/liason.

GRANT

$10,000

19. Lucie Foundation Emerging Scholarship

The Lucie Foundation supports emerging and pro pho-tographers with a grant to work on a “specific, dynamic project.” The Foundation doesn’t restrict applicants to any specific sub-genre of photography preferring to sup-port work that is “gripping, and original.”

PROFESSIONAL AWARD

$5,000

STUDENT AWARD

$2,500

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20. Ian Parry Scholarship

Photojournalist Ian Parry was killed at age 24 covering the downfall of Nicolae Ceausescu. The scholarship pro-vides £3,500 towards a chosen assignment plus publica-tion in The Sunday Times Magazine, Canon camera gear, and an automatic seat in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.

PRIZE

£3,500

21. Tim Hetherington Grant

In collaboration with World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch, the Tim Hetherington Grant provides funds to a visual journalist to finalize a project with a human rights theme. The grant is open to filmmakers and photographers alike, honoring the award winning work for the fallen journalist.

GRANT

€20,000

22. Blue Earth

Blue Earth supports still and motion documentary proj-ects that educate the public on environmental and social issues. Former award winners include Tim Matsui (cov-ering domestic minor sex trafficking) and Matt Eich (covering race and class disparity in a small town).

GRANT

Award varies by project

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Choosing the Right Storage: 8 Tips to Make Your Work FlowBy Greg Crosby, Senior Product Manager, G-Technology, a division of HGST, Inc.

An organization willing to support and fund budding or famous photographers ulti-mately may want access to the project it’s supporting. Marketing teams may want to leverage it for some other initiative they’re promoting. Or, maybe the goal is simply to show creative community involvement for more philanthropic purposes. Regardless of your backer’s objectives, as you plan for your next project and try to secure funding for it—and future opportunities—you’ll want to keep the following tips in mind to opti-mize your workflow and protect your investment—and theirs.

1. No Weak FoundationsCreative digital workflow hinges on storage drives, which fall into two primary classes: consumer and enterprise. Consumer-grade hard drives are built for occasional, light-duty use while Enterprise-class drives are ideally suited to withstand intense use 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week. So when your workflow and livelihood are on the line, insist on Enterprise-class, like those from G-Technology®, for the ultimate in reliability.

2. Pick the Right PipeTime is money so remove bandwidth bottlenecks from your workflow.

Consider working with 4K ProRes4444 video clips. Each stream requires over 5X the bandwidth of 1080p video. Does your interface supply enough bandwidth for that much streaming?

Or imagine examining a gallery of 1000 40-megapixel images. A delay of just two seconds in opening each image becomes over half an hour of waiting during your gallery evaluation process.

To improve storage bandwidth, opt for a 7200RPM hard drive, which can deliver up to 23% faster performance than a 5400RPM equivalent. And be sure to pick external storage with a suitable interface for your throughput needs as well as maximizing your interfaces.

3. Different Drives for Different Workflow StagesThe type of storage solution you pick for each workflow stage (backup, transfer, edit, distribution or backup and archive) will vary depending on your circumstances. Budget-constrained beginners often try to span one or two storage products across all workflow stages, but the more your career grows, the more important it will be to segment your storage according to these stages.

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Transfer generally emphasizes speed balanced with portability, which is why the G-Technology G-DOCK ev® with Thunderbolt™ remains a favorite with busy, mobile creatives. Editing is all about speed and capacity, and long-term storage will stress capacity with RAID-bolstered data protection.

4. Backup: Easy as 3-2-1If you remember nothing else, retain this:

• Make 3 copies of your data• Keep them in 2 physical locations• Only work from 1 at a time

It’s not enough to have your data in your office and a backup in the closet. You want it protected against more than one failure. Keep three separate drives—one of which is stored separately from the others. Only work from one of your two local drives to prevent file version sprawl and possibly replication of accidents.

5. Get VerificationIf you still think that copy/paste is the best way to move digital files and folders, listen up. Computers usually copy every bit accurately from one place to another, but not always. This is why professional backup tools have a verification step, to ensure that every bit on the target matches every bit selected on the source. For verification and multiple-volume automation, use a professional copying and synchronization utility.

6. Secure Your StuffYour images or sound files are your intellectual property, your financial assets. Take steps to safeguard those files against loss or unwanted distribution. These assets should always be encrypted. Fortunately, encryption can be a free, simple, and automatic way of blending protection into your workflow. Plenty of native OS and third-party encryption tools exist, both commercial and open source, for Windows® and Mac® platforms.

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7. Mitigate FailureNearly every creative professional has experienced drive failures or data corruption. Accidents happen. Invest in equipment that is less likely to break down, but still plan for any possible failures that can disrupt your workflow. A backup is always important.

Start by duplicating your data. The most cost-effective way to do this is with a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). A RAID 1 configuration mirrors data such that every bit written to one drive gets duplicated to a secondary drive. Configure a product like the G-Technology G-RAID®, which houses two 7200RPM 3.5-inch drives, in RAID 1. This way, even if disaster strikes one drive, the second drive will take its place with zero data loss.

8. Know what the Pros KnowYour workflow is only as solid as the tools that comprise it. Look for the tell-tales of dependable performance in your storage solutions:

• Drive performance: drives that are 5400RPM to 7200RPM• Reliability with Enterprise-class drives and a three-year warranty • Interface & bandwidth: Is it fast enough to support your future needs?

In sum, thousands of creative professionals, including all G-TEAM Ambassadors, trust their careers to G-Technology premium external storage solutions. So if you’re looking to enhance your workflow and expand your creative opportunities, visit www.g-technology.com to learn more now.

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ConclusionAlthough fewer media outlets are funding photographic projects than in the past, there are many organizations that support photographers’ visions from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars. As with photography contests, having a clear vision and point of view combined with excellent photography is crucial to attracting the eyes of the selec-tion committees that hand out these grants and prizes.

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