Short Description
eidolon is delighted to announce that the eidolon Grant 2025, eidolon’s international grant programme for projects that explore, promote, and conserve vernacular photography, is open.
The eidolon Grant is an international programme that is presented annually to artists, academics, professionals, researchers, collectors and vernacular photography enthusiasts whose past work and proposed project is centred around the image heritage of everyday photography.
Category 1 — Contemporary everyday photographic cultures
In Category 1, the eidolon Grant invites projects that critically engage with the evolving phenomena of digital images, social media platforms, networked image cultures, and their social, political, historical, and aesthetic implications in the 21st century.
We seek thoughtful, in-depth projects that examine the impact of these mediums on contemporary visual communication, identity, and social interaction. Proposals should offer innovative and fresh perspectives or explore underrepresented aspects of these topics, providing nuanced insights into how digital image practices shape and are shaped by recent cultural and technological shifts.
Category 2 — Everyday photographs of the past
In Category 2, the eidolon Grant seeks projects that engage with the significance of 19th and 20th-century everyday photography, through both private and public archives, whether hidden or well-known, and explore collective histories and memories.
We want to give previously unhighlighted photographs the opportunity to shine through various interpretive gestures. Analogue vernacular photography is being lost to our heritage because, as yet, we have no systemic means of their preservation. Eidolon represents an opportunity to interpret everyday images of the past at a moment when the question of what is significant about contemporary social imaging arises. We believe that the past is interpreted through the image practices of the present.
We invite proposals that critically examine the history of safekeeping these images, considering their evolution and relevance in both historical and contemporary contexts. Furthermore, projects focused on the development of the photographic apparatus and its impact on everyday culture are encouraged.
Eligibility
We welcome individual and group applications.
The eidolon Grant aims to identify phenomena, collections, histories, practices, and trends within vernacular photography with the aim of offering new interpretations and analyses. Thematising both photographic heritages and contemporary photographic practices is eidolon’s mission and we invite you to join us in this important exploration.
How to Apply
E-mail at info@everydayphotography.org
Program Benefits & Awards:
The amount to be distributed in the two categories combined is 25,000 EUR.
The amount of the grant can be freely spent on the implementers’ fees, travel expenses, preparation and production costs, and the payment of the involved partners.
Entry Fee:
None
Location:
Budapest, Hungary
Timeline:
- Application Deadline: 31 August 2025
Website Link: https://everydayphotography.org/centre/grant-2025#about
Members Only Area!
Login Subscribe Back To Home