We want Latina/e Photographers to succeed and to do that we need funds. Here is a list of funding opportunities & resources available across genres.
Update on Monthly Funding Lists
OLL’s capacity to find and share individual funding opportunities has decreased and for the time being we will not be able to post monthly updated lists. Below is a list of other curated funding lists that we have found most helpful in our searches. In addition, there is over a year of opportunities listed, many of these are annual opportunities. We wish you the best in finding funding for your projects. Your work and voice are needed in this world.
The Denis Roussel Fellowship – For Photographers
This fellowship is tailored to help the selected artist reach the next level in their artistic path.The DRF is open to all photo-based artists at least 18 years old in the USA. They encourage artists from historically marginalized groups to submit.
Stipend: $1,500
Deadline: Sept 5, 2024
Arts in Society Grant – Colorado
The Arts in Society Grant funds projects that help arts organizations and artists find solutions to civic and social challenges facing Colorado communities. The grant provides both financial and organizational support. This grant does not require matching funds. You may request the full cost of a project.
Grants: $5,000-35,000
Deadline: Sept 6 for letter of interest
The Erie Canal Museum Artist in Residence
The 2024 Residencies will be dedicated to Photography-based projects that reflect upon the Canal’s physical, environmental, and social condition and history; materiality; and context. The Artist’s project must directly address the Canal. Projects focused on ecology and Indigenous history may be given preference. The Erie Canal Museum is seeking two (2) Artists in Residence for a period of one (1) year. The Residencies will focus on a year-long photographic study of the Erie Canal, reflecting on its past, contemplating its current condition, and considering its future. Projects may be journalistic, documentary, or conceptual, and may include and/or be accompanied by text/writing.
Residency Funding: $10,000 plus up to $2,00 for production of final product
Deadline: Sept 8, 2024
2025 Brightwork Fellowship- North Carolina
The Brightwork Fellowship is a studio-based residency providing a 500+ square-foot studio space at Anchorlight, a solo exhibition opportunity in our gallery, and an unrestricted financial award to one North Carolina based* artist per year who is at a pivotal moment in their career.
Grants: $ $50,000
Deadline: Sept 9, 2024
Princeton Arts Fellowship – For Early Career Artists
Princeton Arts Fellowships will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
Stipend: $92,000/year
Deadline: Sept 10, 2024
The 2024 Community Voices Fund – For Delaware, New Jersey & Pennsylvania Nonprofits
This opportunity supports creative, community-centered media and media-making across greater Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware. The focus is placed on projects in the areas of community storytelling, media for movement building (disrupting systemic oppression including but not limited to: white supremacy, colonialism, zionism, patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, capitalism, ableism, etc.), grassroots archives, and community-centered news.
Grants: $$10,000 to $50,000.
Deadline: September 13, 2024
The Graham Foundation Production and Presentation Grants – For Artists & Filmmakers
These grants assist individuals with the production-related expenses necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. Projects include but are not limited to, exhibitions, installations, film/video/new media web initiatives, public programs, and publications.
Grants: $20,000
Deadline: September 14, 2024
The GFX Challenge Grant Program by Fujifilm
The GFX Challenge helps aspiring creatives bring their imaging projects to life. It is designed to nurture and develop the skills of emerging/promising content creators, giving them the opportunity to create content on topics that have significant meaning to them, while gaining experience using FUJIFILM GFX System gear.
Proposed projects may be submitted as still photography or in a movie format. At the conclusion of the production, the award recipients’ final content will be showcased in an exhibition as well as on the fujifilm-x.com website.
Grants: $5,000-$10,000
Deadline: Sept 15, 2024
The Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grants
This opportunity aims to champion the power of visual storytelling in driving positive change for our planet. These funds are specifically earmarked for the development of documentary projects focusing on environmental stories, with each grant supporting a separate photographer and project over the course of twelve months. The aim of these grants is to spotlight solution-based environmental initiatives through visual storytelling.
Grants: $5,000-$20,000
Deadline: September 15, 2024
SPIE International Day of Light Photo Contest
The 2024 contest is open! This year’s theme is “The Power of Light,” which aims to showcase the transformative and awe-inspiring impact of light on our lives, communities, and planet. Two technology-specific divisions, “Technology-Made Images” and “Technology Around the Globe,” are also available for entry.
Prize: $500-$2500
Deadline: Sept 16, 2024
The Neutral Density Awards
The Neutral Density (ND) awards aim to promote photography. They do this by presenting photographers to audiences all over the globe. Six categories for prfessional photographers and five catergories for amateur photographers. Fees $19-$34
Prizes: $400-$3,000
Deadline: Sept 22, 2024
ColorPro Awards – A Global Visual Arts Competition
The ViewSonic and the industry-leading partners encourage you to express your moments of transformation. Submit photographs that embody the Breakthrough theme, whether landscapes, portraits, street life, or any genre that reflects your artistic vision. Submit dynamic digital art, fluid photography, powerful documentaries, or any other genre that captures the essence of Momentum. Participants can submit their entries in various formats, including still images, animations, and videos.
Grants: $5,000
Deadline: Sept 24, 2024
BIPOC Deaf Arts Grant – For Emerging & Established Artists
Deaf Spotlight inspires and showcases Deaf Culture and Sign Languages through the arts. This grant will make a crucial difference for BIPOC Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing artists to thrive in the challenging arts field. At least one recipient will reside in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, or Idaho), and at least one recipient will be a National selection outside of the Pacific Northwest region. Eligible Disciplines include literary, media, performing, tactile, and visual arts.
Grants: $1,000 (4 awards)
Deadline: September 30, 2024
Reimagining Rural Cartographies
Barn Raiser is seeking proposals for their upcoming series of arts and culture stories “Reimagining Rural Cartographies” Stories, including photo essays, in this series will explore work made by people living in rural areas and small towns or work that reflects what’s happening in rural communities and small towns within Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and the Native Nations that share this geography.
Pitches that highlight the work of artists who are members of communities that have been historically marginalized will be prioritized.
Grants: $1,000 & publication of photo essay
Deadline: rolling
Current Art Fund (Tennessee)
The Current Art Fund seeks to support visual artists and artist collectives in creating independent, non-traditional, public-facing projects that contribute to the rich dialogue within contemporary visual art scenes across the state of Tennessee. Also available is the Project-Based Grants.
Grants: $7,500 and varies
Deadline: August 31, 2024
The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant 2024
The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant is an international photographic competition for young photographers who are 24 years of age or under, or anyone who is studying in a full-time photographic course. Entrants must submit a portfolio of 12 images and a clear proposal of a project they would undertake if they received the grant.
Grant: £10,000, publication, equipment and more
Deadline; August 31, 2024
Queer To Stay
This program is designed to support LGBTQ+ small businesses, especially those owned by and designed for LGBTQ+ people of color, women and the transgender community.
Award: undisclosed
Deadline: Aug 31, 2024
Weather Band Photo Contest
Photos of weather, water, and climate from the subtle to the extreme; think clouds, waves, storms, and other atmospheric, oceanic, or hydrologic conditions.
Awards: $200-$500
Deadline: August 30, 2024
Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence Program (NY)
CPR – Center for Performance Research’s year-long Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program seeks to support NYC-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms. CPR values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and encourages risk-taking and the unexpected.
CPR is committed to supporting artists from every background and maintains an expansive approach to performance. We strongly encourage BIPOC artists, LGBTQ+ artists, immigrant artists, artists with disabilities, and artists across generations to apply.
Residency: Studio space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Deadline: August 28, 2024
Social Impact Artist Award (Denver)
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and Denver Arts & Venues are proud to launch the Social Impact Artist Award. The award honors the outstanding contributions of three Denver-based artists or artist collectives dedicated to championing positive impact and social justice through their artistic practice.
Award: $15,000
Deadline: August 23, 2024
The Residency Project
Based in a lively urban neighborhood in Pasadena, California, The Residency Project @ 880 provides space to live and work in an intimate, shared-living environment with access to the thriving arts scenes, diverse cultural landscape, and natural resources of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
Award: $300 Stipend, 3 week residency with room & studio, peer mentoring
Deadline: Aug 20, 2024
Black & White Photography Awards 2024
This opportunity seeks to discover remarkable B&W photographers from all cultures and all experience levels and connect them with global audiences and career-changing opportunities — including an exhibition in London during Photo London 2025. The competition is open to all types of B&W photography: fine art, experimental, fiction, documentary, visual storytelling, portraits, landscapes, staged/constructed, street, mixed media, alternative processes, and conceptual.
Stipend: $500-$3500
Deadline: Aug 21, 2024
Quick Grant
The Quick Grant program awards up to $600 to
California artists, creatives, cultural practitioners, cultural producers, and San Francisco/San Jose nonprofit arts administrators to participate in
professional development activities that build administrative capacity, hone business skills, and strengthen the financial resilience of the grantee’s
practice, area of cultural production, or arts organization.
Award: up to $600
Deadline: Aug 15, 2024
Open Call: Fall 2024 Magnum Foundation NYC Fellowship
Magnum Foundation Fellowship (NYC Work-Study Fellowship), a program offering a project production grant, mentorship, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers and photojournalists. This fellowship is designed for early-career photographers looking for an opportunity to deepen, expand, and complete a New York City based project. We encourage applications from people who have at least one completed long-term project, including recent graduates and self-taught photographers. This program is open to photographers of all ages.
Award: $5000 & additional pay for admin work
Deadline: Aug 12, 2024
AI Accountability Fellowships
The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments’ and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.
Stipend: $20,000 and mentorship
Deadline: Aug 10, 2024
The 2024 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program – For San Antonio, Texas Residents
This competitive program is open to artists from all disciplines (performing, literary, visual, multi-disciplinary, video/film, folk and traditional arts, socially engaged practices, and beyond). Through fostering an inclusive, safe space and building a community of artists, the program allows immigrant artists to focus on their career goals while navigating the shared experiences and challenges of being an immigrant artist.
Stipend: $200
Deadline: July 31, 2024
The 2025 BANF Artist Awards – BIPOC Arts for Houston Residents
This opportunity will provide a one-time investment of up to $20,000 each to 25 artists who are members of Greater Houston’s Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and/or other communities of color. The award recipients will engage in an eighteen-month learning cohort that will build space for dreaming and action to transform our BIPOC arts ecosystem.
Award: $20,000
Deadline: July 29, 2024
The Renton Municipal Arts Commission Grants – For Washington State Residents
The Renton Municipal Arts Commission extends grants to individuals, organizations, and community groups aiming to enrich our city’s cultural landscape. Their grants support diverse arts and culture projects and events accessible to the Renton community at large.
They foster innovative projects that bridge cultural gaps and ignite fresh avenues of creative engagement, especially for underserved groups. These grants provide flexibility, ensuring access for individuals and groups not covered by our annual Community Arts Support Program.
Award: $500-$10,000
Deadline: July 19, 2024
Individual Artist Fellowships – For NJ Residents
These fellowships are awarded to practicing New Jersey artists through an anonymous, competitive application process to help them pursue their artistic goals. Categories offered for the 2025 Fellowships are Choreography, Crafts, Music Composition, Photography, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Poetry, and Sculpture.
Stipend: $4,000-$32,000
Deadline: July 16, 2024
The Arttaca Photography Grant 2024
The grant is hosted by Arttaca, a curated platform that integrates art, photography, and digital innovation. Its mission is to redefine artwork authenticity and ownership through blockchain while merging the traditional art world with new technologies.
The theme of the grant is open, with a focus on storytelling or series. Photographers are encouraged to submit compelling stories or series showcasing their unique photographic vision. Photographers can submit their photographic works that align with the open theme. For those who would like the grant to continue an existing project, we encourage them to include some images of their project in the submission.
The grantees will be given a deadline to deliver the final project and the final project will have to be uploaded to Arttaca to be sold by the artists.
Grant: $1,000
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Blue Space Emerging Artist International Online Art Competition
An emerging artist is typically someone who is in the early stages of their artistic career, often characterized by a growing body of work, limited recognition (regardless of the skill level or content of their work), and a developing reputation within their artistic community or industry. An artist may be considered an emerging artist regardless of their age, experience, or skill level; essentially, an emerging artist is defined as one who has yet to reach a high level of career success or public recognition for their work.
Open to all artists, world-wide.All mediums and styles are acceptable. It is free to submit work. Only those accepted as finalists must pay the $35 finalist fee.
Award: $300-1,000
Deadline: July 16, 2024
Creator Lab Photo Fund
Creator Labs Photo Fund provides financial support to image-makers to continue their practice. This initiative provides financial support to encourage artists at formative moments in their careers. Creator Labs Photo Fund will provide grants to 30 artists for new work created in the past three years.
Award: $6,000 and a Pixel 8a device
Deadline: July 15, 2024
2024 Funding for Artist’s Studios in NYC
Founded by Frederieke Sanders Taylor, the FST StudioProjects Fund encourages local studio practice, which is vital to the vibrancy of the arts, by defraying the costs of studio rents for artists in New York City. Artists must have a current lease for an artist studio in New York City, but do not need to reside in New York City.
Award: undissclosed
Deadline: July 15, 2024
The Emerging Woman Artist Award Art Prize
This is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize, and give long-term support to emerging women artists. All women artists aged 18 or beyond from anywhere worldwide, working in any medium, are invited to apply for the Prize. This thoughtfully designed project aims to acknowledge and uplift talented emerging women artists by providing an exceptional platform to showcase their work to a worldwide audience.
Award: $1,000
Deadline: July 15, 2024
The Sunroom Project Space – For NYC Area Artists
The Sunroom Project Space provides an opportunity for New York City-area artists at the early stages of their career, irrespective of their age, to develop and present a site-specific solo project at Wave Hill. Wave Hill seeks proposals for artist projects that engage with the site of Wave Hill (the plant collection, histories and other aspects of the grounds) and the intertwined relationships between nature and the Bronx. For the 2025 season, Wave Hill is particularly interested in projects that provide new perspectives on constructs of nature as they shape, inform and relay histories about the Bronx, including but not limited to Riverdale where Wave Hill is located, the surrounding neighborhoods and the diverse neighborhoods and communities of the Bronx.
Award: $2,000-$6,000
Deadline: July 15, 2024
The Journalists in Aging Fellows Program
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Journalists Network on Generations are welcoming applications — from journalists who represent general audience or ethnic/community news outlets in the U.S. and who are covering/wish to cover issues in aging. This program’s goals are to educate journalists about issues in aging, better allowing them to spread a new awareness to general audiences and ethnic or targeted communities (such as LGBTQ, disability, or gender-focused groups), and to disseminate accurate information about new scientific findings, policy debates, innovations, and evidence-based solutions.
Stipend: $1,500
Deadline: July 12, 2024
LAUNCHPAD FELLOWSHIP FOR NEXTGEN JOURNALISTS
This opportunity is designed to empower early-career journalists who are passionate about reimagining journalism and community storytelling through the lens of racial equity and social justice. This nine-month fellowship program is designed for journalists from all media platforms with the skills, expertise, and desire to tackle an ambitious, in-depth reporting/storytelling project on a critical social justice issue facing the U.S.
Stipend: $5,000
Deadline: July 12, 2024
The SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest
This contest celebrates how we bring nature closer and the wild back to everyday urban settings. It welcomes photographers of all levels from around the world to submit their work for the chance to win.
Award: $250-$4,000
Deadline: July 7, 2024
Emerald Coast National Juried Art Exhibit
Emerald Coast National (ECN) is a juried exhibition held annually at Mattie Kelly Art Center Galleries, Northwest Florida State College. We leave the theme open and publicize the call on known artist platforms. We invite all art styles, materials, mediums, etc.—including sound art, kinetic art, sculpture, photography, video, design, craft, and even performance if you can provide documentation for the application.
Best in Show wins a cash award of 1000.00 and a solo curated by MKAC, typically exhibited during the next season’s ECN show. Entry fee: $30
Award: $250-$1,000
Deadline: July 1, 2024
More opportunities from Creative Capital, Diversify Photo
The Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers
This opportunity supports the creation of work by emerging LGBTQ+ photographers whose projects address issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ+ identity.
Award: $10,000 winner, $1250 finalist
Deadline: June 30, 2024
The Creative Business Boost Initiative
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) are unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
Funding may be used for but not limited to artist fees, materials, equipment, space rental, travel for research, documentation, professional development opportunities, marketing and promotion, support to continue a current project, support to start a new project, and many other needs related to your project.
Award: $1,500
Deadline: June 21, 2024
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) are unrestricted project-based grants of $1,500 awarded to 65 artists working in all disciplines across Washington State.
Funding may be used for but not limited to artist fees, materials, equipment, space rental, travel for research, documentation, professional development opportunities, marketing and promotion, support to continue a current project, support to start a new project, and many other needs related to your project.
Award: $1,500
Deadline: June 21, 2024
Innovate Grants for Artists & Photographers
These grants support artists and photographers through two quarterly $1,800 grants, one for a Visual Artist and one for a Photographer. These grants act as mighty sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development. They accept and encourage submissions from applicants 18 years or older worldwide. There are fees.
Award: $1,800
Deadline: June 20, 2024
The Creative Economy Fund – For California-Based Small Businesses
This opportunity awards project grants to arts, cultural, and creative-based commercial businesses located in the City of San José and involved in producing or distributing the arts, including manufacturers, service providers, presenters, and designers, among others. Funding supports projects and activities to build successful arts, cultural, and creative-based small businesses in San José.
Award: up to $,8000
Deadline: June 17, 2024
Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise
The Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant visual artists and three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise of $50,000 each to young, immigrant curators who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.
Award: $50,000
Deadline: June 10, 2024
Artist Professional Development Grants
Grants support and forward artists’ careers by encouraging them to engage with the broader contemporary art world and raising the bar for art being produced in the region. Developing fine artists’ awareness of and participation in the national and international contemporary art world, this program aims to strengthen the level of critical discourse among artists in Kentucky.
Award: $500-$6,000
Deadline: June 9, 2024
Artist in Residence at The Latinx Project
Artist-in-Residence program open to emerging and mid-career artists based in the United States. As part of the Artist-in-Residence program, the selected artist will present a solo exhibition on campus with the option of curatorial support and a public program. The most compelling applications engage with larger contemporary or historic dialogues in Latinx Studies.
Honorarium: $10,000; Production: up to $5,000
Deadline: June 1, 2024
The Paula Riff Award
The Award from the Center of Photographic Art and Lenscratch is open to artists whose art is challenging conventional photography through work that reflects the artist’s hand, either based on the historical/alternative photographic processes or with physical intervention through cutting, sewing, etc.
Award: $1,000 and work in Lenscratch and on CPA website
Deadline: June 1, 2024
PG Artist Grant
Project Gallery has a free to apply opportunity for artists. PG is offering an unrestricted one-time $200 grant for an emerging artist working in any medium. This will be the third of a quarterly grant cycle. They will be offering this grant again in July 2024.
Amount: $200
Submission deadline: May 5, 2024.
DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award (Indiana)
Working Visual Artists who have lived and/or worked in Indiana for 3 consecutive years at date of application and 5 years of documented work in contemporaty art are eligible to apply. Grants is to pursue aspirational projects.
Award: up to $10,000 & exhibition at Gallery 924
Submission deadline: May 12, 2024
Women Photograph Grant
$5,000 grants will support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity. Five grants are available, at least one of which will be earmarked for a nonbinary or transgender photographer.
Funding may be used to cover the hard costs of reporting, photographers’ creative fees, and any other expenses that support the production of new work.
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: May 15, 2024
The JGS Fellowship for Photography (New York)
The JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $8,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City. The Fellowship is awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal. The support for this funding is provided by The Joy of Giving Something (JGS).
Amount: $60,000 over 3 years
Submission deadline: May 21, 2024
Canon Female Photojournalist Grant
Canon and Visa pour l’Image presents the prestigious Canon Female Photojournalist Grant to an outstanding photographer in recognition of her contribution to photojournalism. The grant of €8,000 provides funding to support a compelling new project which will be featured as an exhibition at the 2025 festival.
Grants: €8,000
Deadline: May 21, 2024
Excellence in Photo Journalism Awards
The NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Excellence in Journalism Awards were established in 1993 to foster and recognize excellence in journalism on issues related to the LGBTQ+ community. The Excellence in Journalism Awards are open to anyone, including non-members and journalists who do not identify as LGBTQ+. Award, no funding.
Deadline: April 1, 2024
The Pence Gallery Emerging Artist Award
The Pence Gallery Emerging Artist Award supports the creation of new work by emerging artists in California, and the opportunity to share that work through an exhibit and an artist talk. Artists must use the award of $4,000 to further their work in a significant direction, and may work in any medium, except for video or sound art. Amount: $4,000
Submission deadline: April 4, 2024
Creation Grants for Vermont Artists
Creation Grants support artists or artist groups in creating new work. Grant funds may be used to compensate the artists for time spent creating new work, to purchase materials, or to rent equipment or space for the process. Award: up to $5,000
Submission deadline: April 9, 2024
Interchange Fellowship
The Interchange program is designed to strengthen individual artists in the M-AAA region (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas) who have a history of impactful work with a socially-engaged creative practice by providing practice-based grant funding, professional development experiences, peer network access, and one-on-one mentoring. Amount: $25,000
Deadline: April 15, 2024
The Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships support early career Minnesota- and New York City-based generative artists who take creative risks in exploring, expanding, imagining, or re-imagining creative practices and experiences; reclaiming or reviving traditional forms in original ways; and/or questioning, challenging, or disrupting cultural norms. Amount: 60,000 over 3 years
Submission deadline: April 15, 2024
Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants
Grants ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 will be awarded to support journalism in any medium that centers on environmental justice and environmental racism in the United States. This could include coverage of the disproportionate harms to disadvantaged communities from pollution, the effects of climate change, or other relevant topics. Grants: $10-25,000
Deadline: April 24, 2024
Revolutionary Storytellers Grant
This is for photographers with strong connections to communities who are protecting the planet in revolutionary ways. We are looking for stories ranging from land and water protection, Indigenous science and wisdom, climate change, regeneration, and everything in between. Amount: $5,000
Submission deadline: March 7, 2024
Artist Access Grant: Miami-Dade County
Artist Access Grants designed to assist practicing, professional artists in any medium or discipline residing in Miami-Dade County pursue opportunities that will advance their practice and careers in demonstrable ways. Amount: $2,000
Deadline: March 11, 2024
Bay Area Fellowship
Fellowship is open to artists and writers working in any discipline. In addition to providing access as needed to Headlands resources such as studios, meeting spaces, and staff expertise, support includes an annual stipend of $20,000, a health insurance allowance, production budget, and access to resources such as professional development, and travel. Fellowship Stipend: $20,000
Deadline: March 15, 2024
IJNR 2024 Reporting Grants
IJNR invites proposals for grants to help defray the costs of reporting projects that focus on natural resources, the environment, energy, development, agriculture, environmental justice, and public health. Reporting projects must be based in or otherwise directly related to North America. Amount: Varies
Submission deadline: March 15, 2024
Creative Capital Open Call
Info session March 6 Register
Creative Capital welcomes innovative and original new project proposals in visual arts, performing arts, film/moving image, technology, literature, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms. Award: $15,000- 50,000
Submission deadline: April 4, 2024
Revolutionary Storyteller Grant
Five recipients will receive $5000 USD to support the creation of an impactful photography project, community exhibition and training and capacity development. PLUS features across our platforms and a publication in our print magazine. This is for photographers working with communities on land/water protection. The project should support grassroots, frontline movements and initiatives that have measurable goals to protect Mother Earth. Anyone anywhere in the world may apply as long as the project meets the criteria as detailed on the application form.
Info session: February 9th at 8:00pm EST on IG live.
Due March 7th
Fund for Investigative Journalism Seed Grants
The Fund provides grants of up to $2,500 for initial reporting and research that can help flesh out and define investigative stories. The grants are primarily for freelance journalists, and they can be used to cover open-records fees, travel, research, the reporter’s time and other expenses. Journalists do not need a commit to publish. These grants are intended to help yield initial findings that reporter can use to secure a commitment to publish and apply for a full grant from the Fund or other sources. Journalists submit a shorter narrative explaining the investigative story idea and what expenses the grant would cover.
Due February 16
Black Women Photographers x Nikon Grant
Black Women Photographer and Nikon have collaborated on a Grants of $3K business expenses or $5K/$10K for project completion grants and the latest Nikon mirrorless Z series gear.
Due February 17
Artistic Innovations grants for artists and organizations
The Artistic Innovations Grant Program encourages the spirit of experimentation and exploration, exclusively engaging in-region artists and organizations in the creation of new, original works for audiences in the M-AAA six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. This grant program offers up to $15,000 in support of expenses incurred in the art-making process and premiere of these endeavors.
Due February 23
Center Development Grant
The Project Development Grant provides financial support to a fine art, documentary, or photojournalistic work-in-progress. The $5,000 grant package includes professional development and public presentation opportunities.
Due February 25
Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Every year, Tulsa Artist Fellowship designates 10 new fellows from an open call process who will receive $150,000 over three award years in addition to a $12,000 yearly housing stipend, $1,200 yearly health stipend, $1,200 yearly studio assistant stipend, $1,500 relocation stipend, fully-subsidized studio spaces, and access to shared art-making facilities. Our program is integrated into a vibrant cultural district with galleries and performance venues, green space, independent retailers, and restaurants. Tulsa Artist Fellowship recognizes that groundbreaking art practices thrive within an intention-setting framework. Awardees commit to actualizing a project during the three-year program term.
Due February 28
The 2024 Prize for Women in Photography
This is an annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography, open to all women and is trans-inclusive. A new theme is set annually with each new edition of the Prize and the 2024 theme is ‘Histories’. This theme invites broad submissions which evidence the relationship between history and photography; from the use of historical processes and their position within contemporary photographic practice, to the documentation of historical events or revisitations of the past. £2,000 will be awarded.
Submission deadline: January 4
Sony World Photography Awards
The Sony World Photography Awards is made up of four competitions (Professional, Open and Youth), all entries are free Prize range- equipment to $25,000.
Deadlines: January 5 (Youth & Open), January 12 (Professional)
2024 Zeke Awards
SDN will award one photographer a $2,500 honoraria and recognition of their outstanding visual stories documenting systemic changes leading to sustainable solutions to important issues affecting the world today. SDN will award one photographer the ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography and a $2,500 honoraria to recognize their success in documentary visual storytelling about any subject matter with an emphasis on themes that affect the global community. Honorarium: $2500 Fee: $30
Deadline: January 15
Disability in Health Care Reporting Fellowship
The 12-month program is aimed at journalists interested in covering disability issues while learning the basics of health and science reporting. This fellowship is meant to focus on the intersections of disability and health care, the life sciences, and a rapidly expanding health technology sector. Fellows will report on the barriers disabled people face in these realms, and explore possible solutions. Salary: $70,000 + benefits
Submission deadline: January 24
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
The competition seeks to broaden the definition of portraiture and highlight the genre’s relevance in society and contemporary art. Artworks may originate from direct encounters between artist and subject or draw upon existing imagery or archival research in response to history. Artists are encouraged to think about portraiture’s potential to engage with the social and political landscape of our time.
Submission deadline: January 26
Arts Idaho Art Fellowships
The Visual Arts Fellowship recognizes Idaho artists whose work demonstrates a commitment to sustained exploration of their art form and engagement with contemporary practices. This category encompasses disciplines such as painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, or other art forms that are primarily visual. Award: $5,000
Deadline: January 31
The CatchLight Global Fellowship
The Fellowship cultivates a vibrant community of creative thought leaders, and empowers them to shape the future of the field through long-form storytelling projects that engage and captivate audiences. Acting as an incubator, it provides financial support in the form of $30,000 grants, fosters personal growth, and develops networking and partnerships. $30,000 + travel to Catchlight Summit and more. Submission deadline: Dec 9, 2023
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Pride Photo Award
Pride Photo is a platform for inspiring stories about sexual and gender diversity. Through the medium of Photography, we strive to show images and portray the stories behind them, in order to create a safe place for dialogue and intriguing presentations for the LGBTQIA+ Community. €150-1000 Deadline: Dec 10, 2023
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Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award
The Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award recognizes the importance of visual journalistic work that inspires us to take action and compels us to better understand the world. The Award will be given annually to a woman photojournalist whose work reflects courage and dedication, as Anja’s does. The Award winner will be publicly honored, have her work showcased, and receive a cash prize of $20,000. Deadline: Dec 17th, 2023
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Arab Documentary Photography Program
The Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) provides support and mentorship to photographers from across the Middle East and North Africa to amplify creative approaches to visual storytelling that challenge conventional narratives about the region. Selected photographers receive a $7,000 grant to work on their projects in their country of residence over a period of 10 months, are paired with mentors, and attend in-person workshops in Beirut. Deadline: December 20, 2023
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The 2024 Prize for Women in Photography
This is an annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography, open to all women and is trans-inclusive. A new theme is set annually with each new edition of the Prize and the 2024 theme is ‘Histories’. This theme invites broad submissions which evidence the relationship between history and photography; from the use of historical processes and their position within contemporary photographic practice, to the documentation of historical events or revisitations of the past. £2,000 will be awarded. Submission deadline: January 4, 2024
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The En Foco Photography Fellowship
Info session Oct 5
The 9th Annual En Foco Photography Fellowship is designed to support photographers of color who demonstrate the highest quality of work as determined by a photography panel of peers and industry professionals. En Foco is highly regarded for its leadership in support of photographers of color and for its advocacy role in addressing the issues related to cultural equity and access. Due to this award, previous Fellows have had access to many opportunities beyond the fellowship. $1,500 + exhibition, publication and professional development. Submission deadline: Nov 11, 2023
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Whether you shoot in the wilderness or at the heart of an urban environment, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is open to everyone. Follow the links below to discover more about this prestigious competition and find out how to enter. Deadline: Nov 30, 2023
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Friends of the Boundary Waters Photo Contest
Send us your Boundary Waters photos for a chance to win one of seven prizes, and to have your images help advance our mission to protect, preserve and restore the BWCA. This organization is based in Minnesota. Deadline: November 15th, 2023
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Memorial Maria Luisa International Mountain, Nature, and Adventure Photo and Video Contest
The 34edition of the Memorial Maria Luisa de Photography contest is made up of fourteen thematic categories on the Mountain, Nature and Adventure. This award is in memory of mountaineer Maria Luisa Alvarez Alvarez. Submission deadline: December 1
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1492/1619 American Aftermaths Grant
The Aftermath Project is particularly interested this year in helping people think even more deeply – and broadly — about American Aftermaths. We’d love to see more explorations of Asian and Hispanic experiences. We’d also love to get proposals from white photographers who want to examine what it means to be white in the aftermaths of enslavement and colonialism. Deadline: December 1, 2023
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The W. Eugene Smith Grant
This Grant is designed to help a photographer begin a photographic project or help complete an ongoing photographic project. The judges will be looking for a photographer whose proposed project seems most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition: social change, humanitarian concern, armed conflict, or other topics of interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social, environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity. There is also a grant for students. Amount: $30,000 Student: $3,000 Deadline: October 15, 2023
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The Circ Artist Grants
The Circ Artist Grants are open to emerging, mid-career, and professional artists in an international open call, several times throughout the year.
The Circ Artist Grant provides unrestricted funding to artists with a demonstrated commitment to their art. For the Fall 2023 cycle, three artists will be awarded $1000 each to enhance and further their creative practice.
Deadline: October 15, 2023
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Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant
Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant is a month-long residency for artists residing in the New York counties of Greene, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, and Orange. Stipend $1500 and 24/7 studio access. Deadline: October 15th, 2023
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Prospect Art NEW WORK Open Call
Los Angeles-based visual artists are invited to participate in the NEW WORK Focus on Los Angeles initiative. This grant supports innovative projects aligned with contemporary themes, providing $2,500 to seven selected projects. Three grants are earmarked for web-based, new media, sound, or time-based works, while the remaining four are allocated to visual arts projects in different mediums. Deadline: October 22, 2023
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Bronx Council on the Arts New Work
New Work (NW) supports individual Bronx-based artists through a commissioning grant in the amount of $2,500 for the creation of a new work in a community setting. Projects must engage a segment of the community through a public program, such as an exhibition or performance that is open to the public, and/or the inclusion of community involvement in the development and creative process of the artist’s project. Submission deadline: October 31
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The En Foco Photography Fellowship
Info session Oct 5
The 9th Annual En Foco Photography Fellowship is designed to support photographers of color who demonstrate the highest quality of work as determined by a photography panel of peers and industry professionals. En Foco is highly regarded for its leadership in support of photographers of color and for its advocacy role in addressing the issues related to cultural equity and access. Due to this award, previous Fellows have had access to many opportunities beyond the fellowship. $1,500 + exhibition, publication and professional development
Submission deadline: Nov 11
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Click Photo Competition
Deadline: October 6th, 2023
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Peter Capell Award for Midwestern Creativity & Entrepreneurship Awards
Recognizes Midwesterners whose work involves creative or cultural programming, and they must demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking and business acumen in expanding access to arts and creativity in their communities. This year awards are open to candidates in Wisconsin. $2500 Deadline: Sept 18, 2023
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Alternative Processes
19th Annual Alternative Processes Competition at Soho Photo Gallery. All selected photographers will be exhibited at the Gallery on on their website. $300 | $200 | $100 + exhibition Deadline: September 12, 2023
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Neutral Density
Neutral Density 2023 Awards has 40 categories for Professionals and Non-Professionals. There will be 6 professional winners ($500) and 5 non-professional ($400) in addition to Photographer of the Year ($2500) and Discovery of the Year ($1300). Prizes amounts $400-$2300. Deadline: September 17, 2023
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PhMuseum 2023 Women
Photographers Grant
Now in its 7th edition, this grant aims to empower the work and careers of female and non-binary professionals of all ages and from all countries working in diverse areas of photography. Prizes include: $11,000 in cash prizes, solo exhibition at PHMuseum Lab, a featured interview on Vogue Italia, free online portfolio reviews from PHMuseum Education, up to 9 honorable mentions and 40 shortlisted projects. Early bird deadline: September 21, Submission deadline: October 12
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Dry Tortugas National Park Artist in Residency Program
This is a residency program for all artistic media that includes housing in a historic lighthouse keepers house on Loggerhead Key. Florida Keys. Residency dates are March 1-31st, 2024. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for artists to work on projects of their choice, away from the distractions of normal life. $4000 stipend and housing Deadline: September 30th, 2024
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Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant
Grants by Diversify Photo and the Pulitzer Center support projects by independent photojournalists historically underrepresented in the global media landscape. Grant covers “hard reporting costs.” Rolling deadline.
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The Lucie Foundation
The Lucie Foundation offers four cash grants in the categories of Fine Art and Photojournalism/Documentary. Grants $3,000 + printing voucher for professionals, $1,000 + printing voucher for emerging photographers. Deadline September 15, 2023 (extended)
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National Geographic
Level I Grants are designed for individuals who may be earlier in their career, those looking to establish themselves better in their field, and those seeking mentorship from others in their field and beyond. Funding opportunities up to $20,000 and mentorship.
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Artadia Awards
Grants for contemporary visual artists making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context (museum, galleries, arts non-profit, public art). $15,000 grant. Deadlines by city: Boston Sept 15 | Atlanta Oct 1 | Houston Nov 1
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Sony Alpha Female
Join the Sony Alpha Female Facebook group for weekly themes posted on Mondays. $500 grants are awarded weekly through March of 2024.
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