The Alexia Foundation Grants for Photography Students

Deadline: 2 February 2015
Open to: full-time photography students worldwide 
Grant:
grant amount differs for each winner

Description

The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to respect history lest we forget it and to understand cultural difference as our strength. Through grants, scholarships and special projects, The Alexia Foundation supports photographers as agents for change.

The Alexia Foundation is accepting applications for their grant program to help photography students produce bodies of work that share the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. The Foundation welcomes proposals for still photography or multimedia projects that explore cultural understanding in or near the student’s local community. While the Foundation does not discourage proposals on topics outside the students’ region, no extra weight is given to these topics when determining winning Grant recipients.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible applicants must be enrolled full-time students in an accredited college or university in the U.S. or abroad in a degree program at the time of application as either graduate or undergraduate students. Students that have completed more than 3 internships or 1 year of full-time professional experience are not eligible.

Grant

Grants are given for First Place, Second Place and, at judges’ discretion, Award(s) of Excellence and vary between undergraduate and graduate students.

Undergraduate Awards

1st Place if winner is an undergraduate:
• Full tuition for study at the Syracuse University London Program for the Fall semester. Tuition is approximately $19,000.
• $1,000 cash grant to help produce the proposed body of work.
• $300 gift card from Dury’s Photo for equipment and supplies.
• $500 will be awarded to the student’s academic department.

2nd Place if winner is an undergraduate:
• Half tuition for study at the SU London Program, also for the fall semester.
• $500 cash grant to help produce the proposed picture story or multimedia project.
• $250 gift card from Dury’s Photo for equipment and supplies.

Award(s) of Excellence if winner is an undergraduate:
• $1,500 to be used for tuition at the SU London Program, or for any Momenta Photo Workshop.
• $500 cash grant to help produce the proposed picture story or multimedia project.
• $150 gift card from Dury’s Photo for equipment and supplies.

Graduate Awards

1st Place if winner is a graduate:
• This award pays tuition for 2 classes during Fall semester and program fees, up to a  maximum of $15,000 (because graduate students take only 2 courses in London).
• $1,000 cash grant to help produce the proposed picture story.
• $300 gift card from Dury’s Photo for equipment and supplies.
• $500 will be awarded to the student’s academic department.

2nd Place if winner is a graduate:
• Full tuition for 2 classes at the SU London Program in Fall, 2014.
• $500 cash grant to help produce the proposed picture story or multimedia project.
• $250 gift card from Dury’s Photo for equipment and supplies.

Award(s) of Excellence:
• $1,500 to be used for tuition at the SU London Program, or for any Momenta Photo Workshop.
• $500 cash grant to help produce the proposed picture story or multimedia project.
• $150 gift card from Dury’s Photo for equipment and supplies.

Besides the Gilka Grant will recognize the best project proposal that also includes a multimedia component and will award a $1,500 scholarship to attend the Kalish Workshop to either a graduate or undergraduate student.

Application

Applications must be submitted through the online Grant application process and must contain the following documents:

  • Synopsis: in not more than 25 words, submit a synopsis of your project.
  • Proposal: submit a written proposal of not more than 750 words to produce a body of work comprised of
    still or multimedia that will promote world peace and cultural understanding. You may propose projects that are already in progress.
  • Resume: a resume which shall include your phone numbers and address along with the names and phone numbers of 3 references.
  • A portfolio of at least 10 and not more than 20 photographs; or a cohesive body of work – not more than 20 photographs– on a single subject.

The deadline for submissions is 2 February 2015. Winners will be announced on or about March 1, 2015.

For any enquiries please contact  Mike Davis at: mdavis@syr.edu.

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