Picture Stories by Stephen Alvarez

Reminder: Howard Chapnick Grant

In 1996 the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund announced a new award, the Howard Chapnick Grant, to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing research, education and management. The Grant was established to honor the memory of Howard Chapnick, and acknowledge the value of his enormous contribution to photography.

The annual $5,000 grant may be used to finance any of a range of qualified undertakings, which might include a program of further education, research, a special long-term sabbatical project, or an internship to work with a noteworthy group or individual. According to the Fund’s Board of Trustees, special consideration will be given to projects that promote social change and/or serve significant concerns of photojournalism. The grant is not intended to be used for the production of photographs, which will continue to be funded by the main grant of the Smith Fund.

Deadline is May 2013. For more information visit: http://smithfund.org/howard-chapnick-grant

Reminder: The 2013 Photocrati Fund

The Photocrati Fund offers a $5000 grant to a photographer to undertake an important humanitarian and environmental photography project. Our goal is to identify outstanding photographers and to provide the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world.

The 2013 Photocrati Fund competition will be open from Tuesday January 15, 2013 – Tuesday April 30, 2013. Following that time, the applications will be judged by our panel of distinguished reviewers. The 2013 Photocrati Fund award will be announced in late June 2013. The grant winner will become a Photocrati Fellow for the calendar year from the announcement of his/her award until the announcement of the following year’s award.

The 2013 Photocrati Fund competition will run from Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – Tuesday, April 30, 2013. There is no application fee. For more information visit: http://www.photocrati.com/photocrati-fund/

 

Reminder: Inge Morath Award 2013

Reminder to apply. 

The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation announce the 12th annual Inge Morath Award. The annual award of $5,000 is given to a female photographer under the age of 30, to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One award winner and up to two finalists are selected by a jury composed of Magnum photographers and the director of the Inge Morath Foundation.

Submissions must be made by April 30, 2013. For guidelines, visit: http://www.ingemorath.org/index.php/2013/01/the-inge-morath-award-2013-guidelines/

 

Reminder: Focus For Humanity Grant

Reminder to apply. 

Our mission is to be an efficient and innovative fund raising foundation that helps globally to promote, support and match humanitarian and travel photographers to NGOs and other humanitarian causes that need their story told. 

Founded in the USA in 2010, Focus For Humanity is now a Singapore based non profit foundation that supports amateur and professional humanitarian and travel photographers in perfecting their craft through providing a series of workshop grants, scholarships and fellowships to work with underfunded NGOs as well as providing mentoring schemes with leading humanitarian and travel photographers.

Each year we aim to give out a minim of 8 grants per year. Depending on how our fund-raising has been going we may opt to give out more grants. Choose form the three different types of grants that the Foundation offers each year.

Deadline varies. For more information visit: http://www.focusforhumanity.org/workshop-grants/

 

Needle Exchange by Colm Quinn

Story of friendship and drugs and needles. Well worth watching.