ROUND 3
DEADLINE: 22 MARCH 2022 (Midnight, +7GMT)
We’re back with the third round Creation Grants by the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops!
This time, the Creation Grants will be open to all lens-based practitioners in Asia. This initiative is part of our mission to support the visual media community in Asia, and meant to help give a little boost of motivation (and cash).
Our Creation Grants can be used to fund any kind of project involving lens-based work or visual media. It can literally be used for, as the name of the grant implies, creating. It is open to both new and ongoing projects.
Each round will provide four grants of US$500 each. If the project could benefit from having the guidance of a mentor, we will try our best to find the right person to mentor the project.
Please read carefully the details below. The link to the form is at the bottom of this page.
Meet our sponsor!
This third round of the Creation Grants has been made possible thanks to the sponsorship of Inga-Leena Schwager!
We hope her generosity and willingness to support visual artists in Asia inspires others to come forward – if you would like to help bring to life four projects by sponsoring a round, please get in touch with me!
Write to us: jess [@] angkor-photo.com
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CRITERIA & DETAILS:
WHO:
Round 3 is open to all lens-based practitioners from and residing in Asia. Previous applicants are welcome to apply again.
WHAT:
Open to any kind of project involving lens-based work and/or visual media. Projects can be new or ongoing/existing. The grant can also be used to complete part of the project.
There is no fixed timeline for the project to be completed. However, the selection committee will assess how feasible it is based on the submitted proposal.
$$$:
There are no restrictions on how the grant amount can be spent, and it can be used for any purpose as required. However, you should declare other sources of funding you have received or have applied to for the same project.
SELECTION:
We are pleased to have with us Ekkarat Punyatara (Thailand), Uma Bista (Nepal) and Jes Aznar (Philippines) forming the Selection Committee for Round 3. Read more about them below.
DEADLINE:
22nd March 2022 (Midnight, Cambodia time +7GMT)
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
You will be asked to provide the following information in our application form:
- Project Description (Max. 350 Words)
Writing tip: What is this project about? A well written description helps the reader quickly and clearly understand exactly what you want to do and what the story/project is all about.
- Motivations for Project (Max. 250 Words)
Writing tip: This is all about ‘why?’ – Why do you want to do this project? Why is this important to you?
- About You (Max. 250 words)
A short biography or resume to introduce yourself to us.
- Budget Expenditure
Share with us how you plan to use the money. There are no restrictions on what you spend it on, it will just help us understand how it will help you.
- Vision for Completion of Project
Do you have an idea of how the project will be presented? Or how you want to share it with others? (We understand that this may change as you work on the project.)
- Portfolio or Related Images/Materials (Max. 25 images, Total Max. 25MB)
Upload images or materials to help us better understand your project or your work in general. This can be your portfolio, images from an ongoing project, or any other information which is relevant to your proposed project.
Limits: You can submit a maximum of 25 items with a combined maximum file size of of 25MB. (Accepted file types: pdf, zip, jpg, jpeg, png, gif, mp3, mpg, avi, mov)
As always, it helps to be clear, focused and concise when you write your proposals.
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SELECTION COMMITTEE
Jes Aznar is a full-time photographer, currently based in Manila, focusing on Asia and the Pacific. He has exhibited worldwide and was granted numerous awards for photojournalism and art.
After quitting his lucrative job in the advertising industry, he decisively changed his career to hold the camera and never looked back. His passion for documentary photography led him to Hacienda Luisita in Central Philippines to document the brewing workers and peasant uprising inside the plantation that resulted in the infamous massacre in 2004. He has then started to document social issues from labor and peasants welfare to human conditions and human rights Jes is currently contributing primarily to The New York Times and Getty Images. He started @everydayimpunity on Instagram as a platform where we can visually see the consequences of impunity in our society. With a current focus on the Philippines where a deeply-flawed system perpetuates impunity at an alarming rate, highlighted in the ongoing government campaign against drugs where the perpetrators act as the sole judge, jury, and executioner.
Jes took up Painting at the University of the Philippines, Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas, Photojournalism at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-Ateneo de Manila College for Journalism, and Conflict Sensitive Journalism at the Deutsche Welle Akademie in Berlin, Germany.
Uma Bista is a photographer based in Nepal. She works on visual narratives that focus on issues of gender inequality. Uma was named in the British Journal of Photography’s annual “Ones to Watch 2019”. She is a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow 2020.
Ekkarat Punyatara is National Geographic Thailand’s photo editor and staff photographer based in Bangkok. His photography is inspired by fascination and question in Thai culture that he was rooted since childhood by his conservative family. He first gained recognition for his photos in 2011 through a controversial project, It’s Personal that questioning the traditional conservative way of seeing Buddhism in Thailand. The project was a year-long documenting a group of Thai monks living in New York. His works have been published/shown worldwide, Smithsonian(USA), burn magazine(USA), Emaho magazine(India), IPA(Singapore), South China Post(China), etc. Ekkarat won international photo contests, Gold prize of Moscow International Fotography Awards, 2nd prize of Streetfoto San Francisco, 1st prize of 180 years Thai-American relationship photo contest, etc. Besides taking assignments, Ekkarat will be focusing on his personal projects for raising awareness on social issues in Thailand.
MEET OUR SPONSOR!
This third round of the Creation Grants has been made possible thanks to the sponsorship of Inga-Leena Schwager!
We hope her generosity and willingness to support visual artists in Asia inspires others to come forward – if you would like to help bring to life four projects by sponsoring a round, please get in touch with me!
Write to us: jess [@] angkor-photo.com
Previous Rounds
ROUND 1 (20 Aug – 2 Sept 2021)
Selection Committee: Katrin Koenning, Anshika Varma, Sean Lee
Only open to Angkor Photo Workshops alumni 4 Grants of USD$500 disbursed
View Selected Projects by Farhana Satu | Anupam Diwan | Saobora Narin | R.A.
ROUND 2 (21 Oct – 4 Nov 2021)
Selection Committee: Maika Elan, Tammy David, Ben K. C. Laksana
Open to all lens-based practitioners in Asia.
4 Grants of USD$500 disbursed
View Selected Projects by Colin Dancel | Debsuddha | Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq | Atikah Zata Amani