International Documentary Photography Scholarship 2021

Fully-matriculated undergraduate and graduate students can apply for the International Documentary Photography Scholarship 2021 to promote their careers in photography. 

Read on to know about the International Documentary Photography Scholarship 2021, scholarship worth, required scholarship application materials, selection criteria, and terms and conditions. 

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International Documentary Photography Scholarship 2021

The International Documentary Photography Scholarship is intended to promote socially conscious documentary photography and encourage personal involvement in social issues. It is open to all fully matriculated undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of ethnic background, degree major, gender, or country of residence.

The student is free to entirely choose the subject matter. However, it should clearly document a person, place, event, group of people, or happening of social relevance. Submitted images should also be arranged and presented so they clearly tell the story of what is being documented.

The project can be about people, global or local events, urban or rural issues, environmental issues, including land use or misuse, will all be considered. The key is to indicate through your photographs that you are involved and are able to communicate your feelings about the subject you are documenting.

The medium of capture is not important. Images may be made with a DSLR camera, view camera, cell phone, or any other capture device, film or digital.

Scholarship Award

$1000

About the Judges

Anne E. Havinga

Anne Havinga is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Chair of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She looks after a collection of early daguerreotypes and contemporary photography. Her many exhibitions starts fr the beginnings of the medium to recent work.

Ken Light

Ken Light was the first photographer to become a Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley.

He is the recipient of two National Endowments for the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and Arts Photographers Fellowships. His work has been in numerous newspapers, magazines, and a variety of media (electronic & film). It has also been presented in over 230 exhibitions worldwide including one-person shows at the Oakland Museum of California, International Center for Photography (NYC), S.E. Museum of Photography, Visual Studies Workshop, Visa pour L’image Perpignan (France), and the San Jose Museum of Art.

Glenn Ruga

Glenn Ruga is a graphic designer, curator, and photographer. He is the founder of the Social Documentary Network (SDN) in 2008, a web platform for a global community of documentary photographers to present their work online. In 2015, Glenn also founded ZEKE: The Magazine of Global Documentary, a digital and print publication combining the best work from the SDN website with in-depth articles about the issues documented by the photographers.

As a photographer, he has created traveling and online documentary exhibits on the struggle for a multicultural future in the war and aftermath in Kosovo, Bosnia, and on an immigrant community in Holyoke, Mass. 

Required Scholarship Application Materials

The scholarship application process is the blind judging. The judges will not know the applicant’s name, country of residence, school, ethnic origin, or gender. you may include captions, but do not include any identifying information on the essay or in the photo file that might indicate your name, ethnic origin, your country, school, old residence, or gender unless this can be inferred by the nature of the images (example: the documentary is about your ethnic origin and your family can be identified).

1. Completed online application
2. Photocopy proof of college/university enrollment for the academic year of application
3. 350-words or more about your documentary photo project, including who, what, where, when, and why. Include the project title on the essay.
4. Drag and drop 12 – 20 JPEG (.jpg) photos onto the application form in the order you want them viewed. We recommend you use sequential numbering to name your image files (e.g., 01-[Name of Project].jpg, 02-[Name of Project].jpg, etc.).

Optional: You may caption the images by submitting the captions in the same order as the photos in a Word or .txt document along with your photos. 

Selection Criteria

Selection is based upon the application submission and student’s demonstrated interest/involvement in using photography to document a person, place, group of people, event, happening of social relevance, or of personal importance. Scholarships are awarded solely at the discretion of the scholarship committee.

To Submit

To submit your application for the documentary photography award CLICK HERE.

Terms & Conditions

All submitted essays and photos must be the original work of the applicant. Winners and applicants will retain all copyright to the original material they submit. Each year, only one submission may be entered per student. Duplicate entries will be disqualified. when you submit an application to the Anchell International Documentary Photography Scholarship, you certify that all the information you have provided is accurate and complete.

The applicant automatically grants Anchell Photography, Inc. (API), its agents, and/or representatives permission to:

• Use their name, essay response, photo, and award amount, if any, in announcements or articles (i.e. social media, newsletter, etc) issued by API.
• Post the applicant’s name, college or university, photographs, and an essay on the anchellworkshops.com website.
• Call and/or send information to the applicant regarding their application.

Winners will be notified via email, and announced publicly, as well as on API social media pages.

Winners must show proof of enrollment or graduation during the posted dates, above, to an accredited university, college, or vocational/trade school within 21 calendar days of being notified by submitting either a letter of proof from the school or a copy of the tuition bill. In the event a winner cannot prove their enrollment to an accredited university, college, or vocational/trade school, API will revoke the award for that individual and award it to the first runner-up.

The winner agrees to provide high-resolution scans of original prints or individual high-resolution jpeg images or negatives for reproduction by API. The scans or images must be received with a signed statement granting API the right to use them, according to the stipulations above, prior to the award being released.

Privacy

Email communications to API, its agents, the company, and/or representatives may be retained in order to respond to inquiries or process the application as related to the scholarship. API, its representatives, and agents will not knowingly sell, rent, share or otherwise transfer information other than in accordance with the terms set forth under “Terms & Conditions,” above.

Email all inquiries to: scholarships@anchellworkshops.com

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