2024 Traditional Grant Program – Apply Now!

Deadline Date: March 15, 2024

Donor Name: The Aftermath Project

Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

https://www.theaftermathproject.org/application/2024-traditional-grant-application

Applications for the Traditional Post-Conflict Grant is now open to working photographers covering post-conflict stories anywhere in the world.

The Aftermath Project welcomes your proposals for aftermath projects that will help the world make some kind of sense of this, and to care more deeply.

What is an eligible topic for this grant?

• The Aftermath Project’s mission is to support photographic projects that tell the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace. Grant proposals should reflect an understanding of this mission. Proposals may relate to the aftermath of numerous kinds of conflict, not just international wars.
• The conflict may have been at the community level — for example, violence between rural ethnic groups or an urban riot in an industrialized country. It may have been a regional one, such as a rebel insurgency, or it may have been a full-scale war. There is no specific time frame that defines “aftermath,” although in general The Aftermath Project seeks to support stories which are no longer being covered by the mainstream media, or which have been ignored by the media. In general, conflict should be over for a situation to be deemed an “aftermath.”

Prize Details

• They will name one winner of $25,000 grant, and four finalists.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Aftermath Project is open to working photographers world-wide who are interested in creating work that helps illumine aftermath issues, and encourages greater public understanding and discussion of these issues.
• Employees and directors of The Aftermath Project, and their immediate families are NOT eligible to apply for funding. Advisory board members and their immediate families are NOT eligible to apply for funding. Grant application judges, and their immediate families, are NOT eligible to apply for funding in the year that judges help choose grantees.
• Only those submissions including all required materials will be considered for entry.
• Full-time students are not eligible.

Requirements of Grant Winner And Finalist(s)

• Grant winner(s) and finalists retain all copyrights to their work. Obligations to The Aftermath Project are as follows:
  • Grant winner agrees to give The Aftermath Project 12 prints, chosen by will be chosen by The Aftermath Project in collaboration with the photographer, for its archives at project completion. Prints must be 16×20 inches or larger.
  • Grant winner agrees to make at least 30 images from his/her 2024 grant work available to The Aftermath Project for possible exhibition and/or publication (No guarantees are made for publication or exhibition). In addition, grant winner agrees that work created with The Aftermath Project grant may be used for educational and/or community outreach purposes, including lesson plans. Images for such purposes will be chosen will be chosen by The Aftermath Project in collaboration with the photographer. The winner also agrees that images from his/her grant work may be used for publicity and press purposes by The Aftermath Project. Any photograph so used by The Aftermath Project will carry the photographer’s credit/copyright line. No compensation is guaranteed in any of these cases.
  • Finalists agree to make 10-15 images from their work submitted for the 2024 grant available to The Aftermath Project for possible exhibition and/or publication (No guarantees are made for publication or exhibition). In addition, finalists agree that work submitted for the 2024 Aftermath Project grant may be used for educational and/or community outreach purposes, including lesson plans.  Images for such purposes will be chosen by The Aftermath Project in collaboration with the photographer. Finalists also agree that images from his/her grant work may be used for publicity and press purposes by The Aftermath Project. Any photograph so used by The Aftermath Project will carry the photographer’s credit/copyright line. No compensation is guaranteed in any of these cases.

Note

• If any compensation is available for photographs by winners or finalists for use of their images in press or publicity, The Aftermath Project will split those funds, 50-50, with the photographer.

For more information, visit The Aftermath Project.