Grant for Professional Photographers Valued $20,000 from Alexia Foundation

The Alexia Foundation offers a professional Alexia Grant to enable professional photographers and visual journalists to produce substantial bodies of work that share the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. 

Eligibility:

• Photographers and visual journalists from any country may apply for this Grant. 
• Proposals for projects that have already received grants or awards of more than $10,100 in the previous calendar year are not eligible. 
• The Grant is made to an individual photographer; project proposals that involve multiple content producers will not be accepted - unless you also submit a motion piece with your still images. 
• You must be the primary creator on motion pieces but may have produced the piece with a small support team.

Staff Photographers:

Professional Grant applicants who are staff photographers:

• must provide written permission from their employer granting them a leave of absence of approximately three (3) months over the course of a year to allow time to complete their project. 
• It is not necessary for this time to be taken in a single block.
• While all other application elements will be submitted online, the letter of permission must be mailed to:

Mike Davis
The Alexia Grant Competition
Professional Division
S.I. Newhouse School of Communications
215 University Place
Syracuse, NY 13244

Award:

• The Professional Grant recipient will receive $20,000 for the production of the proposed project.
• There is a $50 application fee for professional grant applications. 
• You will be prompted to pay the $50 entry fee during the application process.

About:

The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice. It regards cultural difference as humankind strength – not weakness. And it seeks to spread world peace. Through grants, scholarships, and special projects, The Alexia Foundation supports photographers as agents for change.

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