Photography Grant Sources

Aaron Siskind Foundation
Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
http://www.aaronsiskind.org/news.html

Alexia Foundation for World Peace
Photography Competition
http://newhouse.syr.edu/alexia/
Established in memory of Alexia Tsairis, an honor photojournalism student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and victim of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Alicia Patterson Foundation
http://www.aliciapatterson.org/
The Alicia Patterson Foundation Program was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly 23 years before her death in 1963. One-year grants are awarded to working photojournalists/journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for the The APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation.

Archibald Bush Foundation Artist Fellows Program
http://www.bushfoundation.org/programs/ArtistFellowsProg.htm
The Bush Artist Fellowships provide artists with significant financial support that enables them to further their work and their contribution to their communities. Fellows may decide to take time for solitary work or reflection, engage in collaborative community projects, embark on travel or research, or pursue any other activity that contributes to their lives as artists. Note narrow geographic restrictions. Michigan residents not applicable.

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Documentary Prize
http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/
A $10,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center’s founding at Duke University, 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.

Duke and Duchess of York Prize In Photography
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/more/prsh05-e.asp
The Duke and Duchess of York Prize was endowed by the Government of Canada in 1986 on the occasion of Prince Andrew’s marriage. The prize, worth $8,000 is awarded annually to a professional Canadian artist for personal creative work. The winner is chosen from among the recipients of arts grants in the Canada Council’s annual competitions for professional photographers. Administered by the Canada Council of the Arts.

FiftyCrows Fund for Documentary Photography
http://www.fiftycrows.org/fund.htm
For thirteen years, the Photo Fund competition has been one of the premier documentary photography programs in the world. Its goal is to enable emerging and mid-career photographers to create in-depth essays that become catalysts for positive action and social change.

Hasselblad Foundation
Stipends and Research Grants in Photography
http://www.hasselbladfoundation.o.se/indexe.html
The main aim of this Foundation is to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. This aim is achieved by means of donations and grants for scientific research, through the awarding of an international prize in photography, and by distributing scholarships and grants for research projects in photography.

Nikon’s Small World Competition
http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/rules.html
Anyone over the age of 18 interested in photography through the microscope is eligible, with the exception of employees of Nikon Instruments Inc. (“Nikon”), their families, the contest judges, and individuals engaged in the manufacture or sale of microscopes or photographic equipment.

Photo Resource
http://web.archive.org/web/20010804104323/
http://www.photoresource.com/calendar_awards.html
Although the original Photo Resource site no longer exists, the funding announcements are still available courtesy of the Internet Archive.

University of Arizona
Center for Creative Photography
Ansel Adams Fellowships in Photography
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/education/internships.html
Through a generous endowment provided by the Polaroid Corporation in honor of Ansel Adams, the Center for Creative Photography (CCP), the University of Arizona, offers annual Research Fellowships. The program is intended to provide research time for scholars needing to use the archives, photograph collection, or library of the Center for Creative Photography.

W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
http://www.smithfund.org/apply.html
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 compassionate dedication exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist.

Worldstudio Foundation Scholarships
http://www.worldstudio.org/schol/index.html
Worldstudio Foundation scholarships allow young people from minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds not only to realize their artistic dreams, but also to give back to their communities. Areas of study include: architecture, cartooning, crafts, environmental graphics, fashion design, film/theater design (costume, set, lighting), film/video, fine arts, furniture design, graphic design, illustration, industrial/product design, interior design, landscape architecture, new media, photography, surface/Textile design, and urban planning.

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