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Disphotic.com: FEE FREE PHOTO CONTESTS, GRANTS, FESTIVALS September 29, 2015

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Many thanks to Lewis Bush of www.disphotic.com for the list below. It is a work in progress. I include his latest post to share his work:

City of Dust, Lewis Bush 2012

I’m currently developing a proposal for an exhibition next year about London and would welcome submissions and suggestions of photographic work to info [at] disphotic.com.

I’m particularly interested in projects which look at a narrow slice of the city, or which think about a narrow notion of what London is, rather than works which attempt to totalise, generalise, or in other ways broadly represent the city. Your work might look at a particular group of people in the city, a particular set of spaces, a specific era in the metropolis’s history or a specific idea about what London has been, is now, or is becoming. The type of photography, whether journalistic, documentary, or artistic in nature, is unimportant at this stage.

If you have a body of work which fits this rather broad outline I’d love to see it. Please send 5-10 images and an outline of 250 words maximum to info [at] disphotic.com via Wetransfer, Dropbox, or a similar file sharing service. Equally if you know of a body of work by another photographer that you think I should look at, please drop me a line with suggestions.

[Update: people asking if there is a deadline for this, the simple anwser is not really, but I hope to have a shortlist of work by mid-October, so consider the deadline for submissions to be Thursday 15th October]

 

 

 

FEE FREE CONTESTS, GRANTS AND FESTIVALS

 

A resource of contests, grants and festivals that don’t charge fees, or charge only relatively small amounts. This is very much an ongoing project, I’m gradually working on organising this list by entry deadline month, with each section starting in January and running through to December. See bottom of the page for my sources and other photo grant/competition compilations from which the ones here are drawn. Feel free to send in suggestions for additions or corrections to info@disphotic.com

 

General Prizes

NPPA Best of Photojournalism
Days Japan Photojournalism Award
Istanbul Photo Awards
World Press Photo
Henri Cartier Bresson Award (requires nomination)
IAFOR Documentary Photography Award
ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or award
Prix Bayeux-Calvados
Marco Pesaresi Award
Lucas Dolega Award
Featureshoot Emerging Photography Awards
Leica Oskar Barnack Award
Sony World Photo competition (some categories are free)
Barcelona International Photography Awards
Choice Awards
Black and White Photographer of the year (from £5)
Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition ($15)
Fotoprize (French art students only)
Panobook (panoramic photograph)
iPhone Photography Awards (from $3.50)
Kolga Award
Conscientious Portfolio Competition
Small World Photomicrography Competition
Photo Annual Awards (from 3 Euro)
Prix Elysée
Travel Photographer of the Year (£15)
Nikon Photo Contest
Smithsonian Mag Photo Contest
Aperture Portfolio Prize (free for Aperture members)
Art Gemini Prize
Snider Prize (for graduating photographers, to have work purchased by MoCP)
On the Move International Award
National Geographic Traveller photo contest
Francois Chalais
Pano Awards ($20)
Photo Camera Clara (for photographers working with large format)
Piclet Prize Africa
Portrait Salon (entry must have been rejected from Taylor Wessing prize)
Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards (35 Malaysian Ringgit or about £6)
Trust Women Photo Award (women only)
Canon Female Photojournalist Award (women only)
Prix Virginia (women only)
Lenscratch Student Prize (students only)
The Terry O’Neil Photography Award (students only)

Book Prizes

First Book Award
Dummy Award Kassel
Luma Recontres Arles Dummy Book Award
Unseen Dummy Book Award
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize (North American Citizens only
Aperture Photobook Awards
Anamorphosis Prize
Bartur Photobook Award
Unveil’d Photobook Award

Grants

Alexia Foundation Womens & Student Grant
Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film Grant
Crusade Engagement Grant
Inge Morath Award
Marine Conservation Photography Grant
Photocrati Fund
Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship ($15 fee)
Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
Eugene Smith Grant
Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography
Getty Images Emerging Talent Award
Getty Images Creative Grants
Pierre Alexandra Boulat Grant
Alexia Foundation Women’s Initiative Grant
Ernest Cole Award for work made in, or about, South Africa
Burn Magazine’s Emerging Photographer Fund
Howard Chapnick Grant
Ian Parry Scholarship
LightWork Artist-in-Residence
Emaho emerging Asian photographers ($15 fee)
Firecracker Photographic Grant
NPPA Grants (US only)
APA / Lucie Foundation Scholarship
Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
Silvereye Fellowship
Tim Hetherington Grant
Gomma Photography Grant
CENTER’s Project Launch Grant
Focus for Humanity’s NGO Grant
The Aftermath Project
Rolling or multiple application dates
Arts Council England
Pulitzer Center
RPS Grants for students and Joan Wakefield grant
Alicia Patterson
Blue Earth’s Grant
VSCO Artist Initiative
JGS Quarterly Photography Contest
Open Society Foundations
Reminders Photography Stronghold Grants
The Shpilman Institute for Photography (Israeli and Israel based photographers)
Rory Peck Assistance Grants
Rory Peck Training Fund
The Documentary Project Fund
Viewfind Grant ($25 but has a fee waiver for photographers unable to pay this)

Fellowships

Associated Press Global News Internship Program (various locations)
Bay Area Video Coalition Mediamaker Fellowship (San Francisco, USA)
Data & Society Fellow (New York, USA. Data journalists)
Donald W. Reynolds Fellowships (Columbia, USA)
Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship (New York, USA)
Fellowship in Professional Journalism for Morning News Journalists (Dallas, USA)
Google Journalism Fellowships (Various locations)
International Reporting Fellowship for Minority Journalists (Various locations. Journalists of colour)
Joan Shorenstein Fellowship (Cambridge, USA)
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford (Stanford, USA)
Knight-Mozilla Fellowship (Various locations)
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship (Cambridge, USA)
Knight-Wallace Fellowship (Ann Arbor, USA)
Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship (San Diego, USA)
Meredith-Cronkite Fellowship (Phoenix, USA)
Metpro Tribune (Los Angeles or Chicago, USA)
Munk School of Global Affairs Global Journalism Fellowship (Toronto, Canada)
National Geographic Photography Fellowship (Various locations)
Nieman Fellowships (Cambridge, USA)
Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation (Cambridge, USA)
Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme (Oxford, UK)
Santa Fe Institute’s Journalism Fellowship In Complex Systems (Santa Fe, USA. Veteran journalists interested in science)
Scripps Howard Foundation Multimedia Fellowship (Washington, USA. Post-graduates interested in multimedia)
Covering the Fight to Eradicate Malaria: A Fellowship for U.S. and Global Journalists
(Thailand)
Reporting Position With GroundTruth’s Climate Change Fellowship (France)
Scripps Howard Semester in Washington Internship Program (Washington, USA)
Ochberg Fellowship (New York, USA)
BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellowship (New York, USA)
IWMF African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative  (Uganda, Rwanda, DRC. Women journalists)
Fulbright – National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship (various locations)
HIV Prevention Reporting Fellowship (Kenya. Journalist from sub-saharan Africa)
Soros Justice Fellowship (USA. journalists interested in US criminal justice system)
Atlantic Media Editorial Fellowship (Washington, USA)
Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship (Cambridge, USA)
The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism (various locations)
The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism (Atlanta, USA)
World Press Institute Fellowship (Various locations)
Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
Asian Cultural Council Individual Grants (Asian artists)
The Astraea Visual Arts Fund (Lesbian artists)
The Awesome Foundation For the Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn Arts Council Grants (Applicants must be resident in Brooklyn)
College Art Association Professional Development Grant (Students due to complete MFA or PhD study)
Creative Capital Grants (US Citizens)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award
Library Fellows’ Award, National Museum of Women in the Arts (Women working with artists books)
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Fellowship (Native American artists)
William H. Johnson Prize (Early career African American artists)

Residencies

BMW residency at Museum Nicéphore Niépce
C-Scape Dune Shack Artist Residency (USA)
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Poland)
Collide@CERN? (Switzerland)
Kohler Plumbingware Co. Artist Residency (USA)
Paper Art Village (Japan)
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (USA)
Venice Printmaking Studio (Italy)

Sources

David Campbell
Fotografia Magazine
Claudius Schulze
Workshop X
Mediashift
Blouinartinfo

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