Arab Documentary Photography Program 2024 for Emerging Photographers ($7,000 grant) Deadline: 1 August, 2024

Applications are open for the Arab Documentary Photography Program 2024. The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation in New York City, USA, launched the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) in 2014, a program that is jointly funded by AFAC and Prince Claus Fund (in the framework of the Fund’s Mentorship Awards), and supports creative documentary photographers in the Arab region.

Documentary photography sheds light on important neglected and unknown narratives. Over the past nine years, the Arab Documentary Photography Program has been dedicated to supporting unconventional, compelling, non-stereotypical visual documentation of social issues and narratives relevant to the Arab region. The program has proved itself to be a major springboard to emerging Arab photographers, granting access to the needed resources and adequate professional support to initiate and complete compelling documentary photography projects.

Even so, structural issues remain, and documentary photography practices tend to stand overlooked. With the tenth cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program, they commit to continuing the urgent work of providing support to documentary photographers in the region. If you are a documentary photographer who works with creative photography practices in the Arab world and transmits critical and socially engaged local stories, they encourage you to apply for the 2024 cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program.

Benefits

• The $7,000 production grant is to be used to cover the artist fees, any needed production equipment cost, any research costs, travel, and other expenses related to the production.
• Additionally, the grant covers per diem (when on location) associated with the attendance of the three workshops. Note: travel and accommodation costs related to the workshops will be covered directly by ADPP. Grant funds will be used solely for the undertaking of the described photography project and not for any other purpose.

Eligibility

• Open to applicants from, living and working in the Arab region, irrespective of age, years of experience, ethnicity, gender, or religion. Professional and emerging photographers are eligible to apply.
• Photographers who have not specialized in documentary photography will be considered as long as the proposed work is documentary in nature. Technical familiarity with photography is required.
• Journalists or activists who have not had experience with photography are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants must be independent, i.e. they must possess full copyright ownership of the project they are applying with.
• Each applicant is entitled to only one application in the same category.

Deadline: 1 August, 2024

Application

All applications must include:

• 10–20 images from the initial stages of the proposed project;
• Images from any single body of work that demonstrates the applicant’s ability as a photographer and a visual storyteller;
• Captions should be included in the metadata of each image file. A numbered caption sheet is requested in the supporting material zip file;
• Images should be JPGs, 72 dpi, and longest edge 1,000 pixels.
• Additional media as supplement to the still photographs are accepted. Applicant needs to include the corresponding links in the supporting material zip file;
• Applications lacking in supporting material will not be considered for evaluation nor will the applicant be contacted to send the missing material;
• Supporting files and samples of current submitted project and/or previous work that are smaller than 10 MB can be uploaded directly to the application;
• Supporting files and samples of the submitted project and/or previous work that are between 10 MB and 300 MB should be included as links to files on sharing websites (such as Dropbox, Vimeo, YouTube, etc).

For more information, visit ADPP.