The Everyday Projects Grant 2021 for Photographers [Prize Rs 4.3 L+ Mentorship]: Submit by 7th June

Applications are invited for The Everyday Projects Grant 2021 awarding 2 grantees $6,000 every and mentorship for his or her undertaking.

About the Grant

At the core of The Everyday Projects mission is a perception in help of photojournalists from various backgrounds as they develop their craft. In a brand new effort to assist present this important help, The Everyday Projects will award two grants to photographers to work on a long-term undertaking. To know more about them click here.

Eligibility Criteria

• Preference will likely be given to photographers who’ve contributed to The Everyday Projects or are members of the African Photojournalism Database. In your utility, you can be requested for hyperlinks to your contributions to an Everyday account on Instagram. (African Photojournalism Database members can as an alternative link to the APJD membership web page).
• We will prioritize supporting tasks that align with The Everyday Projects strategy to storytelling, together with:
  • Stories that defy stereotypical imagery, promote human dignity, and proper misrepresentation.
  • Projects which might be rooted in documentary images. If your undertaking is outdoors of what can be thought of as conventional photojournalism, please clarify your course in your utility. These may very well be tasks primarily consisting of portraiture, a collaborative undertaking with the individuals you {photograph}, blended media, and many others. We are open to those artistic approaches.
• We will prioritize photographers who’re documenting their very own neighborhood or area. Photographers may be based mostly wherever on the earth.
• You can apply to proceed with an undertaking or begin a brand new one. Your proposal should embody a portfolio of 15 to 30 photographs. If you might be proposing to proceed with an undertaking, your portfolio can embody photographs from that undertaking, in addition to different work. If you might be proposing to begin a brand new undertaking, your portfolio ought to present every other related work.
• Your undertaking has to be accomplished within one year of receiving a grant.
• We hope that this grant will present help and mentorship to photographers who’re engaged on considered one of their first long-term tasks and have had restricted publicity to nationwide and worldwide assignments and publications. Applicants ought to show openness to taking suggestions and studying. Grantees will likely be guided using their tasks by their mentors and the Everyday workforce as if it’s a long-term project.

Prizes

• In addition to receiving $6,000 each, the 2 grantees will obtain mentorship at some point of their undertaking from both Mallory Benedict of National Geographic or Jehan Jillani of The Guardian.
• Grantees will likely be introduced in August.

How to Apply?

Interested candidates can take part in this grant by filling the shape given here.

Submission Deadline

June 7, 2021

For more details, click on the link beneath.

The Everyday Projects Grant 2021 for Photographers

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