General information
- Website
- Entrance fee US$50
- For additional questions, email to info@smithfund.org
Timeline
- Call for entries open – 02 July 2024
- Waiver Deadline – 24 September 2024
- Submission deadline – 08 October 2024 at 11:59 pm EDT
- Grant recipients announced – 10 December 2024
- 45th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant Ceremony – TBD
The W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice. The judges will be looking for a photographer and project that seem most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition: social change, humanitarian concern, armed conflict, or other topics of interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social, environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity.
For 2024, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Grant is $30,000. In addition, two $10,000 Finalist Grant will be awarded
A fee waiver of US$50 will be granted to a selected number of photographers in Southeast Asia upon request sent to Matca via email at hello@matca.vn.
