The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund is now accepting applications for the Howard Chapnick Grant, to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism, such as editing research, education and management.

Deadline to apply is July 15th, 2015.

Grant Details

The annual $5,000 Chapnick Grant may be used to finance any of a range of qualified undertakings, such as an educational program, research, a special long-term sabbatical project, or an internship to work with a noteworthy group or individual. Special consideration will be given to projects that promote social change and/or serve significant concerns of photojournalism. The grant is not intended to be used for the direct productions of photographs.

Recipients of the Howard Chapnick Grant will be selected by the Board of Trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund in Humanistic Photography.

The Howard Chapnick Grant is supported by Harbers Family Foundation and honors the memory of Howard Chapnick and his enormous commitment to photojournalism.

Past Recipients

Ryan Libre, How Ryan Libre’s Documentary Arts Center Empowers Asia’s Visual Storytellers (2011 Winner)

Michael Itkoff, Discovering Daylight in a Sea of Change (2006 Winner)