Apply Now: Canon Female Photojournalist Grant

Funding Information

• The winner will receive the 8000 euros at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan in September.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Canon Female Photojournalist Grant is presented to a female photojournalist in activity who wishes to cover a social, economic, political or cultural subject in a journalistic manner, on presentation of a dossier, including the documents and works stipulated.
• The Grant will be given to an individual photojournalist and not to a group, without any consideration of nationality.
• The Grant is given in order to allow the winner to carry out the photo-reportage which has been presented for the Grant.
• Organisation:
  • Entry is free.

Application Requirements

• Applicants must have completed at least one photo-reportage (published or unpublished) – applicants must be professional photojournalists – applicants must be able to write and speak in French and/or English.
• The application dossier will include the following items:
  • A signed application form,
  • A copy of the Applicant’s identity card or passport,
  • An affidavit stating that the candidate is a professional photojournalist (attestation of honor written by the photographer or from an agency or from a newspaper)
  • A curriculum vitae,
  • A letter in support of the application including a description of the photoreportage project (maximum 1 typed page). This letter must remain anonymous and must not contain anything that would allow the candidate to be identified.
  • A projected budget for the photo-reportage project for which the Grant is to be used if obtained. If the financing of the project is to be extended to other partners, these must be approved by Canon and Images Evidence who reserve the right not to cite them,
  • A photo-reportage in black and white or colour: between 10 and 20 pictures
• Material specifications for .jpg
  • Low resolution .jpg
  • With captions written in the File Info field (no mention of copyright in the IPTC files)
  • Only JPEG accepted (no TIFF or PSD)
  • Maximum images size: 3 MB
  • Each Picture file has to be numbered without mentioning the name of the photographer (01, 02, 03, …) in the order the photograph would like them to be shown to the jury.

For more information, visit Visa pour l’Image.