Do Not Publish: Applications open for 1492/1619 American Aftermaths Grant Program

Topic

• The grant is specifically for projects that relate to aftermath of colonialism and enslavement in the United States.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: $25,000

Eligibility Criteria

• The Aftermath Project is open to working photographers world-wide who are interested in creating work that helps illumine aftermath issues, and encourages greater public understanding and discussion of these issues.
• Employees and directors of The Aftermath Project, and their immediate families are not eligible to apply for funding.
• Advisory board members and their immediate families are not eligible to apply for funding.
• Grant application judges, and their immediate families, are not eligible to apply for funding in the year that judges help chooses grantees.
• Full-time students are not eligible.
• They’d love to see more explorations of Asian and Hispanic experiences. They’d also love to get proposals from white photographers who want to examine what it means to be white in the aftermaths of enslavement and colonialism.

Requirements

• Grant winner(s) and finalists retain all copyrights to their work. Obligations to The Aftermath Project are as follows:
  • Grant winner agrees to give The Aftermath Project 12 prints, chosen by will be chosen by The Aftermath Project in collaboration with the photographer, for its archives at project completion. Prints must be 16×20 inches or larger. Finalists agree to give The Aftermath Project 3 prints, under the same conditions.
  • Any photograph so used by The Aftermath Project will carry the photographer’s credit/copyright line. No compensation is guaranteed in any of these cases.
  • Finalists also agree that images from his/her grant work may be used for publicity and press purposes by The Aftermath Project. Any photograph so used by The Aftermath Project will carry the photographer’s credit/copyright line.

For more information, visit The Aftermath Project.