Grants for Photographers and Journalists Worth $20,000 from the Alexia Foundation

The Alexia Foundation offers grants to professional photographers and journalists from around the world who submit work that advances the Foundation's goals of promoting global peace and cultural understanding.

• The grants amount is $20,000.
• There is a $50 application fee for professional grant applications. You will be prompted to pay the $50 entry fee during the application process.

• Grants are available to professional photographers and visual journalists around the world.
• Only one application per person will be accepted each year.

FOR FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE SUBMISSIONS:

• Professional grant applicants who are employed full time, must provide written permission from their employer granting them a leave of absence for approximately three 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:

Bruce Strong

The Alexia Grant Competition

Professional Division

S.I. Newhouse School of Communications

215 University Place

Syracuse, NY 13210

Judging Criteria & Process:

• The Alexia grants were established to help promote world peace and cultural understanding. The strength of your written proposal will be judged equally to your photographic skills. The grants will go to those who have the potential to produce significant projects that share in The Alexia’s mission and who demonstrate the ability to accomplish their projects as shown by the images submitted.
• Grant applications will be judged in two rounds. First, members of The Alexia prejudging panel will review submissions and forward selected entries to a panel of three judges for review before the judging weekend, when they’ll choose a grant recipient and two finalists. Recipients are chosen based on the judging panel’s assessment of the strength of both the topic and the submitted materials.

About Alexia Foundation:

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 spreading world peace. Through grants, scholarships and special projects, The Alexia Foundation supports photographers as agents for change.

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