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SUMMARY:Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grant
DESCRIPTION:Opportunity type: Grant\nFor: different creatives\nDeadline: 15/03/23 \nRewards: $20,000 + mentorship\nLocation Eligibility:  Africa\n\nAbout this opportunity\nThe purpose of our grants is to support and encourage visual storytellers to create a long-term documentary photography project with local communities who are working to protect the environment and wildlife.\nRewards\nVital Impacts will be awarding two $20,000(US) grants to support the development of a documentary project on the work of an environmental story over the course of twelve months. The grants are for two separate photographers working on two separate projects. The grants will fund visual stories that highlight solution based environmental initiatives. It is designed to give the recipients time, mentoring and intellectual freedom to produce a body of work over twelve months.\nThe Vital Impacts team will provide mentorship and guidance to the recipients of the grant over the course of its implementation.\nIn addition to funding the Grant, Vital Impacts will be offering a mentorship program to the top 50 applicants for the Vital Impacts Environmental Grant. Participants will take part in a series of 12 classes with leading environmental and photographic figures. \nEligibility\n\nVital Impacts is looking for local photographers in a community who have experience and passion for reporting on an issue, particularly as it relates to the community where it is found, and who are looking to delve deeper and tell a meaningful story that communicates the challenges and solutions to an environmental or conservation issue.\nIt is a requirement that the recipient document a local story. This grant is meant to support local journalism and we are not looking to fund photographers who are coming from an outside community or country.\nApplicants are welcome to apply for our grants in their native language or in English. We will have proposals in foreign languages translated.\nAll applicants must be able to agree to and sign our Environmental Grant Agreement.\nGrantee cannot be the target of sanctions or located or resident in a country, territory or region that is the target of comprehensive territorial sanctions.\nPrior publication experience is not a requirement. Vital Impacts is particularly interested in uplifting photographers who have been working on long term projects and who have existing relationships with the stakeholders in this issue.\n\nEntry Fee\n$25. Fee may be waived for economic hardship. The fee is waived for all applicants from developing countries. Please reach out to hello@vitalimpacts.org for fee waiver codes.\nHow to Apply\nClick the link to apply: https://vitalimpacts.org/pages/the-vital-impacts-environmental-photography-grant\nContact\nAll questions regarding this grant should be emailed to hello@vitalimpacts.org\n
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CATEGORIES:For photographers,For photojournalists
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