Funding
Grants, residencies, and award opportunities worth a photographer's time - curated selectively, well-established organizations only. Each profile stays up for reference even between deadlines, since an organization worth knowing about doesn't stop mattering just because one cycle has passed.
Alexia Grants
The Alexia offers grants for professional and student photographers and filmmakers to produce substantial bodies of work…
No deadline on recordThe Howard Chapnick Grant
The Chapnick Grant supports programs rather than individual photographers that make a meaningful contribution to documen…
Next deadline: Oct 12, 2026W. Eugene Smith Fund
The flagship W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to help photographers begin or complete a significant documentary project…
Next deadline: Oct 12, 2026Jentel Artist Residency
Jentel offers residencies to visual artists working in any medium, writers working in fiction, creative nonfiction or po…
Next deadline: Sep 15, 2026Light Work
Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program brings 12–15 artists to Syracuse each year for a month of dedicated creative wo…
No deadline on recordVirginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) - Moulin à Nef (France campus)
Moulin à Nef hosts four Fellows at a time for periods of concentrated creative work in the medieval village of Auvillar.…
Next deadline: Sep 15, 2026Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) - Mt. San Angelo (USA campus)
The Mt. San Angelo residency offers artists a period of focused, independent creative work, typically lasting from two t…
Next deadline: Sep 15, 2026FUJIFILM GFX Challenge Grant Program
Some photography projects need more than a good idea. They need time, money, equipment—and occasionally someone willing …
No deadline on recordInge Morath Award
The Inge Morath Award is an annual production grant for a woman or nonbinary photographer under 30 working on a long-ter…
No deadline on recordLensCulture Photobook Prize
The LensCulture Photobook Prize is designed for photographers with a completed or substantially developed body of work t…
No deadline on record