Calling submissions 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.
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Recognizing the image’s power to document, educate, and advocate, the Arab Documentary Photography Program’s incentive has always been to foster creative photography practices in the Arab world and to encourage the transmission of critical, socially engaged, and local stories.
Looking back at nine years of the program, it’s convinced that it remains essential for nurturing free expression, amplifying unheard narratives, and raising the level of creative documentary photography in the Arab region and beyond.
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.
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Even so, structural issues remain, and documentary photography practices tend to stand overlooked. With the tenth cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program, we 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, we encourage you to apply for the 2023 cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program.
Benefits
- Provides up to 8 photographers with a $7.000 grant to work on their projects in their country of residence over a period of 10 months.
- The grant may be used to begin a new project or to complete work on an existing project.
- For projects that have already started, AFAC will cover the expenses starting from the signature of the contract, if the project is selected.
- In addition, ADPP grantees will benefit from mentorship provided by distinguished program mentors and will be required to attend three specialized workshops (Two in-person and one virtual) to help them develop and produce their projects and consider avenues for distribution.
- Photographers can apply to ADPP in either English or Arabic. To facilitate exchanges, access to translations will be provided throughout the program.
Eligibilities
- 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).
Application Process
- Applications are only accepted through an online application form available on AFAC’s website. Applications submitted via regular mail or e-mail will not be accepted.
- The application must be submitted in English or in Arabic, and applicants will receive a confirmation email once the online application has been received.
- Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration.
- AFAC will not contact applicants if any part of their application is incomplete.
To apply, candidates have to login with their respective AFAC username and password. After login, they have to visit the program page they are interested in applying to and click on apply.
Application Deadline: July 31, 2024
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