The Alexia Foundation offers a professional Alexia Grant to enable professional photographers and visual journalists to produce substantial bodies of work that share the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. Work that helps bring about change is more valued. The Professional Grant recipient will receive $20,000 for the production of the proposed project. There is a $50 application fee for professional grant applications. You will be prompted to pay the $50 entry fee during the application process.
Deadline for submission is February 1, 2018 at midnight Eastern U.S. Time. Winners will be announced early April, 2018. Judging will take place at Syracuse University March 23 and 24 at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The public is invited to attend. Professionals will be prompted to pay a $50 application fee within the application system.
Required Eligibility:
Photographers and visual journalists from any country may apply for this Grant. Proposals for projects that have already received grants or awards of more than $10,100 in the previous calendar year are not eligible. The Grant is made to an individual photographer; project proposals that involve multiple content producers will not be accepted – unless you also submit a motion piece with your still images. You must be the primary creator on motion pieces but may have produced the piece with a small support team.
For Staff Photographers:
Professional Grant applicants who are staff photographers must provide written permission from their employer granting them a leave of absence of approximately three (3) months over the course of a year to allow time to complete their project. It is not necessary for this time to be taken in a single block.
The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to respect history and to understand cultural difference. Through grants, scholarships and special projects, the Foundation supports photographers as agents for change.
For further information visit: Alexia Foundation
