Photography Grants

We have tried to include some good resources for your Photography Grants search. I hope you like the list, If you know of any other ~~Photography Grants~~ feel free to send us so that we can include them in our list.

Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Grant – For one outstanding social documentary photographer, from across the world, with a grant of $5000, to be utilized for the production or completion of social documentary project.

FotoEvidence Book Award: Every year the FotoEvidence Book Award will recognize a photo project documenting evidence of a violation of human rights. The selected project will be published as part of a FotoEvidence series of photo books dedicated to pay tribute to the work of photographers, whose commitment and courage deliver painful truths, creating an awareness and intolerance towards violations of human dignity.

The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize: The prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor.

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Anthropographia: This competition is free to all, offers an opportunity for photography grants to exhibit their work and demonstrate their commitment to human rights issues.

Maine Media Workshops: The mission of Maine Media Workshops is to build dynamic educational communities that foster creative vision, photography grants, craftsmanship and expression in the media arts.

Kickstarter: Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. We’re a great way for creative people to bring their projects and ambitions to life.

The Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize: The purpose of the Aperture Portfolio Prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography grants and specific artists whom we can help by bringing them to a wider audience.

Center for Fine Art Photography: It promotes the art of photography grants by supporting the growth of creative artists through exhibitions and educational programs.

Getty Images: Offer Grants for Editorial Photography as well as Grants for Good, which support photography grants working with nonprofit organizations.

The Aftermath Project: It holds a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict.

Alexia Foundation: It supports photographers as agents for change and promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice

The Pulitzer Center: This center provides travel grants to journalists for international reporting projects photography grants that focus on under-reported systemic crises, produced for distribution in U.S. news media outlets.

TPW – Alexandra Boulat Scholarship: To honor the memory of Alexandra Boulat, TPW has created a special scholarship. This will consist in the possibility to attend a workshop in Tuscany for free and work under the guidance of master photography grants.

Magnum Expression Award: It was established by Magnum Photos in an effort to raise awareness and inspire change through photography grants.

The Puffin Foundation: The Puffin Foundation has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing photography grants to artists and art organizations that are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.

Aaron Siskind Foundation - The Foundation’s Individual Photographer’s Fellowship program encourages and celebrates artistic achievement in contemporary photography by supporting the creative endeavors of artists working in photography and photo-based art media. Prospective Applicants: New applications will be accepted starting March 1, 2012 through May 18, 2012.

Emerging Photographer Fund…Submissions Open Now for 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. DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2012

Canon Female Photo journalist Award – Since the year 2000, the Association des Femmes Journalistes and Canon France, in partnership with the international Visa pour l’Image festival, and with the support of Figaro Magazine, have awarded an annual prize for women photojournalists. Women photojournalists worldwide are welcome to enter the competition, for which there is no age limit. The 8,000-euro award enables the winners to finance their projects and have their work exhibited at the festival in Perpignan and later in Paris at the Cosmos Gallery.

Focus for Humanity – FFH offers two types of grant. The first is an annual Foundation Fellowship of up to US$15,000 for a non full-time photographer keen to focus on photography as a career and probably within the humanitarian or cultural field, but who needs that final push or help to overcome that last barrier that is stopping them turning full-time.

List updated on April 17-2012