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Three Photojournalists Win Alicia Patterson Grants

Three photojournalists are among the eight winners of the 2007 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowships. Jon Anderson, Stephen Ferry and Teru Kuwayama have been awarded one-year grants of $35,000 apiece to pursue independent projects.

Anderson, who is based in New York City and is represented by the newly formed Anarchy Images, has been awarded a fellowship to work on his project, "Cana Brava: The Plight of the Braceros on the Sugar Plantations of the Dominican Republic." Ferry, also of New York City, will use his grant to work on "Terror and Civic Resistance in Colombia: Lessons from a Forgotten War." Kuwayama, who is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., was awarded a fellowship for his proposal, "No Man's Land: Survival at the Ends of Frontier," a project on Afghanistan.

Five other fellowships were awarded to writers:  freelancer Alison Bass of Newton Lower Falls, Mass.; freelancer Matthew Dallek of Washington, D.C.; Chris Davenport, a staff writer at The Washington Post; Tom Knudsen, a staff writer at The Sacramento Bee; and freelancer Miriam Pawel of Pasadena, Calif.

The fellows' completed projects will be published in APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine produced by the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

The fellowship, founded in 1964 in memory of the late editor and publisher of Newsday, is awarded to journalists who are investigatng projects of significant interest. The fellows are chosen by two panels of judges based on evaluations of their proposals and past work. Previous winners have included photographers Steve Liss, Jonas Bendiksen.

This year's judges were Toren Beasley, photo director for Newhouse News Service; Sandy Close, founder of New America Media and editor of Pacific News Service; John Margolies, freelance photographer, author and APF Fellow in 2003; Laura Parker, senior writer for USA TODAY, and APF Fellow in 1996; and Frances Stead Sellers, editor for The Washington Post’sHealth Section and APF Fellow in 2003.

Applications for the 2008 fellowships will be accepted after June 1, 2007. Applications and information is available at www.aliciapatterson.org.

The Aftermath Project

The Aftermath Project, a new grant competition that supports documentary photography, has announced its first winners.

Jim Goldberg of San Francisco will receive $20,000 to continue a story called "The New Europeans," about refugees from trouble spots around the world. His project looks at migrants who settle in Europe, but he has traveled to the countries of origin of many of these refugees, focusing on human rights issues.

Wolf Böwig of Hannover, Germany, will be awarded $15,000 to continue "The Forgotten Island: Narratives of War in Sierra Leone," a project about Bonthe Island, a small island off the coast of Sierra Leone where about 1,200 people were killed during the recent war. Böwig's story follows Morie, a five-year-old who was the sole survivor of an attack on his village.

The Aftermath Project also announced three finalists. Andrew Stanbridge of Boston proposed documenting people affected by the reconstruction in Laos. Asim Rafiqui, a Kasmiri photographer who lives in Stockholm, Sweden, proposed documenting the effects of war in Kashmir. Paula Luttringer, an Argentinean photographer who lives in Breville, France, proposed a survey of locations in Argentina where mothers of missing children were abducted between 1976 and 1983.

All five photographers' work will appear in a book produced by Mets & Schilt, Aperture, and The Aftermath Project to be released in fall 2007.

"It's our hope that this group of five photographers, representing traditional and non-traditional documentary approaches to their work, will help to create a broad forum that draws many voices into this crucial conversation about aftermath," said Sara Terry, a photojournalist and founder of the Aftermath Project, in a statement.

The Aftermath Project is a nonprofit organization that supports coverage of rebuilding, recovery and healing after a conflict, seeking to inform people of the cost of war. The grants are funded in part by a series of benefit auctions.

Further information, including how to apply for next year's grants, is available at www.theaftermathproject.org.

Alexia Foundation for World Peace

Applications for grants and scholarships
will be accepted beginning Dec. 1, 2006

Each year in February, the Alexia Foundation provides a $15,000 grant to a professional photographer and five scholarships of varying values to students to study photography at the Syracuse University London Centre in England. The first place student winner also receives a $1000 cash grant and the other four receive $500 cash grants, in addition to the scholarships. Students and professionals from around the world are eligible. There is no application form. See complete rules at links on the upper left of this page.

Next professional deadline is 5 p.m. Jan. 16, 2007.
Next student deadline is 5 p.m. Feb. 1, 2007.

Alexia Foundation for World Peace

2007 NABJ ETHEL PAYNE FELLOWSHIPS

NABJ annually seeks to award $5,000 fellowships to journalists wanting international reporting experience through self-conceived assignments in Africa.

The NABJ World Affairs Committee helps govern the Payne fellowships. They are intended for print, broadcast and new media journalists who have a strong interest in Africa but limited opportunities to cover the continent. Winners are selected based upon their proposals to cover issues relating to one or more African countries.

Winners must spend up to three weeks in Africa and produce news reports for NABJ.

Requirements

Must be a NABJ member
Full-time journalist or freelancer
Five years of experience in journalism
800-word project proposal
300-word essay on applicant’s journalism experience
Three samples of work published or aired
Two letters of recommendation
Winners must arrange travel to Africa and complete their news reports by Dec. 31, 2007.

To apply, please submit materials to the NABJ National Office by December 15, 2006.

NABJ
Attn: Ethel Payne Fellowship
8701-A Adelphi Road
Adelphi, MD 20783

2007 Risser Prize entries now being accepted

Deadline for entries: March 17, 2007
This is a Stanford University Fund.

This award is given for journalism that best illuminates a Western environmental issue, although entries are not limited to journalists from Western news organizations. The judges will place a premium on stories that report and explain complicated situations, stories that report undiscovered or hidden problems and stories with implications beyond the immediate dimensions of the issue being covered.

Given the nature of the award, preference will be given to stories about the water, resource, land use, wildlife and other environmental issues that are unique to the North American West, but outstanding stories about environmental issues that occur in other areas of the continent as well – air pollution, groundwater pollution, etc. – will also be given strong consideration.

The North American West, for the purposes of this award, includes the U.S. west of the Mississippi River, Canada west of Ontario, including Nunavut, and Mexico west of the 102nd meridian.

Berenice Abbott Prize Deadline

The Julia Dean Photo Workshops is offering The Berenice Abbott Prize for an Emerging Photographer. The prize is named for Abbott, a portrait and documentary photographer.

The contest is open to "emerging photographers," meaning those who have not yet been exhibited or published widely.

The winner of the contest gets a one-person exhibition at the Julia Dean Gallery in Los Angeles, including travel expenses, as well as a Canon EOS digital SLR camera.

Complete details and an application are online here. There is a $95 entry fee.

Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge

For all those photographers and photojournalist following this blog for grant announcements, here is another nugget I found while doing my daily research.

Please be aware the deadline for this grant is Dec. 31. They will be awarding $5 Million dollars in 2007 to groups and individuals.

Knight Foundation is seeking new ideas, pilot projects, commercial products and leadership initiatives that will improve the flow of information and news in the public interest.

In 2007, they will award a total of $5 millioin to individuals, organizations or businesses that can show their ideas will transform community life.

The application are available here.

For more information about this News Challenge, click here.

Distribution Grant

The Open Society Institute has a Documentary Photography Project.

Conventional media provide limited opportunities for presenting documentary photography to the public. There are even fewer ways to present the work that leads to social change. The Open Society Institute's Documentary Photography Project offers a grant for photographers, in collaboration with a partner, to use innovative, nontraditional methods to present their work to specific audiences to stimulate constructive social change.

All photographers must have another entity (such as a nongovernmental organization, school, government institution, online journal, publisher, gallery, or museum) that agrees to collaborate with the photographer to present the work in new ways and to reach out to specific communities to advocate for social change. The partner must engage with the photographer to accomplish these goals—and not just fund or publish the project.

Grants of $5,000 to $40,000 will be awarded.

For information about the application process, view the Distribution Guidelines.

The fall 2006 deadline has passed. Please check back in April 2007 for the fall 2007 application.

General information about OSI can be found here.

Aftermath Deadline Today

For those of you who are keeping up with the various grants and awards. The Aftermath Grant that was talked about in this previous blog here.

The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace.

The primary activity of The Aftermath Project is a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. In addition, the Project seeks to help broaden the public’s understanding of the true cost of war— and the real price of peace — through traveling exhibitions and educational outreach in communities and schools.

Social Documentary Funding

There is a relatively new organization/site out there. It is called Changing Ideas.

Changing Ideas was established by David Graham who, as a consequence of his 23 year old son becoming paralysed in a diving accident, changed careers and undertook an MA in photojournalism. With his business background he recognised that many concerned organizations and individuals were frequently unable to successfully realise their humanitarian projects because they lacked essential business skills and other resources. He saw there was a gap in the humanitarian sector for an organization that brought concerned organizations and individuals together within a framework that provided the necessary skills to turn their ideas into reality.

Changing Ideas assist charities and other individuals, including photographers and journalists, by providing effective, practical and pragmatic support to achieve lasting, effective and above all measurable change.

Changing Ideas have raised substantial funding and established an extensive network of business, political and media contacts. Changing Ideas apply these resources to provide imaginative solutions to humanitarian issues. Changing Ideas are unlike most grant giving organisations as they mentor, monitor and support projects from their genesis to their completion.

Please submit your application before 31st December 2006.