Deadline for submission: April 15, 2010

We are now receiving submissions for a grant of $15,000.

Funding is  designed to support continuation of  a photographer’s personal project. This body of work may be of either journalistic mission  or purely personal artistic imperatives…

The Emerging Photographer Fund grant  was initiated by David Alan Harvey in 2008, and is awarded by the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit created by the member photographers from Magnum Photos, Inc…Funding for the EPF has come from several  private donors who have chosen to remain anonymous.

The EPF  Jury for 2009 was: Martin Parr, Gilles Peress, Eugene Richards, Carol Nagar, Fred Ritchin, Maggie Steber, David Griffin, John Gossage and James Nachtwey

The 2008 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Sean Gallagher for his essay  on the environmental “desertification” of China.

The 2009 Emerging Photographer Fund grant was awarded to Alejandro Chaskielburg for his essay on the Parana River delta

For more detail please go to :  http://www.burnmagazine.org/emerging-photographers-fund/