8×10 moonlight photograph by Alejandro Chaskielburg, 2009 EPF recipient, from his essay The High Tide
we now announce on Burn our third annual Emerging Photographer Fund grant …for 2010 we are offering a $15,000. stipend for an emerging photographer to finish an ongoing personal project…the deadline for entries will be April 15, 2010….funding for the EPF comes from generous anonymous donations from our audience here on Burn to the non-profit Magnum Cultural Foundation…these are very specific donations to the MCF and are apart from the general subscriptions and donations to Burn….
this year we must set up things a bit different from the last two years…we have no choice but to have a $25. entry fee per submission….last year almost killed Anton Kusters and yours truly with the almost 1200 submissions….we cannot do that again…this year the $25. will be well spent…we will be using a program called Slideroom to facilitate you entering and us having the grant juried in a first class manner…..with Slideroom you open a free account and you will literally have a “room” where you can work on your edit for the next two months…i.e. put in one picture today, four next week, change your edit, play with the pictures, do whatever you want, then hit the submit button on or before deadline..if you decide not to enter after all the editing etc., then simply do not hit submit and you are not charged…the system is way easier to use for all than anything before and makes it possible for us to have a wide prestigious jury (to be named soon) who can view your work at their leisure online and yet be communicating with each other all along…
so the financial breakdown is: $8. will go for this Slideroom program which is of great benefit to all of us (this is their fee to us per entrant)…$5. will go to a Haitian relief agency…and $12. will go to cover our admin costs for the EPF at Burn,and the costs associated with creating a sophisticated slide show and presentation of finalists and winner at this summer’s one time special Burn/Look3 event for emerging photographers in June…we realize this fee may keep some from entering….we considered this and came up with the lowest price we possibly could and still be able to continue this grant program at all …we do not feel this fee will discourage any serious entrants…
all details for the correct entering of project essay submissions will be seen under EPF 2010 in the right hand column of Burn…
i look forward to seeing all the new work….
-david alan harvey
The EPF grant 2010 submission link:
Deadline for submission: April 15, 2010
The winner will be announced in June, 2010
DAH…
You have apparently made your decision, but I thought you might be interested to take a look at CaFE as the way to facilitate the submission process…
https://www.callforentry.org
A few more options, all realated to/with photography:
there’s Bruno Stevens project of trying to help rebuild 2 houses:
http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/pictures-of-haiti
There’s Andy Levin of 100eyes on the ground who might know someone directly, and is also working with Ciné Institute in Jacmel:
http://www.100eyes.org/
http://www.cineinstitute.com/news/
There’s also Zanmi Lakay helping and working with kids:
http://www.zanmilakayblog.org/?page_id=149
DAH,
I second Partners in Health who I donated to. They really impressed me on the 60 Minutes piece with the work they are doing. I did a bit more research and they are the highest rated of the agencies (though I think DWB is second). Either choice is a good one.
Charles
So I am going to assume that the idea of giving the money to me is a non-starter, isnt it?
Akaky, I’ll wrestle you for it.
Take a heap of shcmick photographs put them in a partially sensible order and the money is yours Akaky
@lllarsen8
thanks for the ‘disaster porn’ link. that was thought-provoking.
THODORIS…
SLIDEROOM gives us much more flexibility than does Cafe…for you a potential entrant and for the judges as well…
I will give $25 to watch Brian wrestle Akaky.
Oh, and as far as charitable organizations, DWB would be my choice.
David…
I didn’t have any comparative information between the two services, either on the ease of use for the judges, the cost for licensing, or any other relative attributes… only a positive past experience from the entrants point of view… in any case, was just trying to share information…
Any NYC burnians interested in having a beer and shooting the breeze around the end of Feb? I live in Australia and will be in NY for a week or so (17th-25th) to check out some shows, book shops and bars…. Would love to see some local late night haunts if anyone wants to hang out. email me at sean at pidgin.com.au if interested.