The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professional and emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support photographers producing work that is at once gripping, and original.

The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to support the work of emerging and established photographers.

WINNERS AND FINALISTS WILL BE PART OF A GROUP EXHIBITION IN LOS ANGELES AT LOS ANGELES CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN NOVEMBER.
MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THE EXHIBITION TO COME.

CATEGORIES

FINE ART

FINE ART – PROFESSIONAL

$3,000 FINE ART SCHOLARSHIP

Professional

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$3,000 cash prize + Ilford: Portfolio Bag, along with a box of Smooth Pearl 13 x 19” and Smooth Gloss 13 x 19” + PICTO NYC: $500 voucher for services

FINE ART – EMERGING

$1,000 FINE ART SCHOLARSHIP

Emerging

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$1,000 cash prize + Ilford: Portfolio Bag, along with a box of Smooth Pearl 13 x 19” and Smooth Gloss 13 x 19” + PICTO NYC: $500 voucher for services

PHOTOJOURNALISM/DOCUMENTARY

PHOTOJOURNALISM/DOCUMENTARY – PROFESSIONAL

$3,000 PHOTOJOURNALISM/DOCUMENTARY SCHOLARSHIP

Professional

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$3,000 cash prize + Ilford: Portfolio Bag, along with a box of Smooth Pearl 13 x 19” and Smooth Gloss 13 x 19” + PICTO NYC: $500 voucher for services

PHOTOJOURNALISM/DOCUMENTARY – EMERGING

$1,000 PHOTOJOURNALISM/DOCUMENTARY SCHOLARSHIP

Emerging

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$1,000 cash prize + Sony: A7M4 camera with a SEL24-70GM2 lens + Ilford: Portfolio Bag, along with a box of Smooth Pearl 13 x 19” and Smooth Gloss 13 x 19” + PICTO NYC: $500 voucher for services

RULES & REQUIREMENTS

WHO CAN APPLY:

The Lucie Scholarships are open to professional and emerging photographers 18 years and older, worldwide.  We define “professional” as any photographer who earns the majority of their income from photography. We define “emerging” as any photographer enrolled as a student, in the first five years of their photography career, or does not earn the majority of their income from photography.

WHAT IS REQUIRED TO APPLY:

Please read the following information carefully to make sure your application material is complete.
Incomplete applications will not be considered:

• Project Proposal (1,500 characters max). This proposal should include the following:
  • Project Start and End Dates
  • Description of your project
  • Your Plan for completing the project (i.e. how you intend to approach the project and how you intend to use the scholarship money)
  • Five Goals that you plan to accomplish while working on the project (e.g. producing 20 new images, making 5 prints, etc.)
• A one-page biography and/or CV
• Twenty digital images

Is there a submission fee?

Submission fee’s are:
• Professional category, $25 /submission
• Emerging category, $15 / submission

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

USE & OWNERSHIP:

The photographer must be the sole author and owner of the copyright of photos entered in to the competition. Copyright and all other rights remain that of the photographer. Any photograph used by Lucie Foundation shall carry the photographer’s credit line.

Website link: https://www.luciefoundation.org/programs/scholarship/