La SAIF-Benoît Schaeffer Publishing Grant for a Photography Book

The grant is designed to support and highlight the career of a professional press or documentary photographer, and provide backing needed to publish a printed book. The grant is open to photographers living in France who make a submission in association with a publishing house for the production of a book.

The SAIF wishes to give the opportunity to a photographer to publish his monograph, in thus promoting the dissemination of his photographic work. This scholarship aims to encourage and highlight the photographic work of a professional press photographer and/or documentary which requires support for the creation of a printed monographic work.

The SAIF undertakes to award an author a scholarship in the amount of ten thousand euros (10,000 €) for an editing project for the publication of a monograph. SAIF will pay this sum to the winner selected by the Jury after signing the agreement relating to the award of the scholarship.

Eligibility Criteria

• Participants must meet each of the following criteria to be able to submit an application:
  • Be a French or foreign author residing in France;
  • Be a professional press and/or documentary photographer;
  • Present a monograph project. By monograph, they mean: either the work of a life with several subjects treated; or long-term work on a single subject. The or the photographer must not have already published a work on his entire work or on the subject in the long term. In the event that a work project on long-term work would be presented, the photographer must have at least five years of career (without minimum age requirement);
  • Present a publication project in association with a publisher.

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