Deadline: 1 October 2011
Open to: working photographers and translators covering the aftermath of conflicts
Grant: up to $20,000
The Aftermath Project was created to help photographers cover the aftermath of conflict, based on the understanding that war is only half the story.
This is a year-long grant to conflict photographers. The subject can be approached in any way – portraits, landscapes, reportage, collaboration with a family of someone who has been killed, anything that explores the personal aftermath of covering war, whether that be PTSD, the aftermath of sexual assault, the aftermath of being wounded.
Along with the grant for photographers, there is also a special $5,000 honorarium for a fixer or translator, who has worked with a conflict photographer, and who wants to tell a story (written or visual) about their own aftermath experience.
Eligibility
The grant is open to conflict photographers, and fixer or translator, who has worked with a conflict photographer, and who wants to tell a story (written or visual) about their own aftermath experience.
Application
Photographers:
1. A 1-to 3-page essay discussing your experience as a conflict photographer, your thoughts about the aftermath in your own
life of covering conflict, and how you would use this grant to tell that story.
2. Contact details (phone and email) for one professional colleague/editor/agency, etc, who will serve as your reference.
Please note that you do not need to submit any photographs
Fixers/Translators:
1. A one-page essay discussing your experience working with a conflict photographer, and your thoughts about the kind of story you would like to tell about the impact of this work in your own life. Please let us know if you want to share your story in writing or in photos.
2. Contact details (phone and email) for one professional colleague/editor/agency, etc, who will serve as your reference.
Joint applications (photographers and fixers/translators):
1. A 1- to 3-page essay discussing your work together covering conflict and your thoughts about the aftermath in your own lives of covering conflict. Please tell us how you would use this grant to tell that story, and how you would collaborate on it.
2. Contact details (phone and email) for one professional colleague/editor/agency, etc, who will serve as your reference.
Submit your application to sara@theaftermathproject.org. Application form can be downloaded from the official website.
Grant
Photographers: up to $20,000.
Fixers/Translators: $5,000
If a conflict photographer AND a fixer/translator wish to apply together, they will be eligible for the combined sums of $25,000.
Contact
Sara Terry
sara@theaftermathproject.org