DEADLINE: The Alexia Grants

Since 1991, the Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice. Production grants are awarded to students (grant amount varies) and professional photographers ($20,000) to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place. Students also get scholarship opportunities.

The Alexia Grants 2024

Grants are awarded to applicants who can produce significant projects that share in The Alexia's goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding and who demonstrate the ability to accomplish their projects.

This year, The Alexia is offering new grants as well as its traditional grants.

PROFESSIONAL

The Alexia Grant (professional): $20,000 and a Sony camera/lens. The runner-up will receive $500.

NEW: The Alexia Mental Health Grant sponsored by The Albany Foundation: $17,000. For this grant, we will be looking for strong projects that provide meaningful insight into a mental health issue.

NEW: The Alexia Environmental Change Grant sponsored by James Balog / Earth Vision Institute: $15,000. We are looking for a still photographer whose innovative image-making and ideas deepen human understanding of environmental change in the Anthropocene. Special consideration will be given to work with strong potential for public outreach.

NEW: The Alexia Conservation Grant sponsored by The fStop Foundation: $5,000. For this grant, we will be looking for strong projects that focus on positive aspects of conservation work in relation to human-wildlife conflict — how we can thrive living alongside wildlife that share our landscape.

The professional grant application has a $50 fee.

STUDENT GRANTS

The Alexia Grant (student): $1,000, a Sony camera/lens, the tuition and fees to audit three courses during a semester at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York, and they will be considered for a paid position as research assistant to The Alexia chair. The runner-up for this award will receive $500.

NEW: The Alexia Conservation Grant sponsored by The fStop Foundation: $1,000. For this grant, we will be looking for strong projects that focus on positive aspects of conservation work in relation to human-wildlife conflict — how we can thrive living alongside wildlife that share our landscape. The fStop Foundation also is willing to provide guidance during production and publication.

The student grant application is free.

STUDENT AND EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER GRANT

The Alexia is pleased to announce THE ALEXIA EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER GRANT SPONSORED BY THE VII FOUNDATION.
 
The recipient of this grant will be selected from applicants to our student grants as well as professional applicants who have five years of experience or less.

Deadline: Professional and student grants — extended to Feb 19, 2024

Inspired by their dear daughter and sister Alexia Tsairis who was innocently killed at the age of 20 during the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the Tsairis family have worked to build Alexia’s legacy as a photographer through The Alexia Foundation. From its beginning as a memorial fund at Alexia’s alma mater Syracuse University, The Alexia Foundation has grown to become one of the most well-known and respected awards in the field of photojournalism, earning recognition and awards from World Press Photo, the Emmy News and Documentary Awards, the duPont-Columbia University Award, and a Pulitzer Prize; just to name just a few.