Image caption: Tyler Dehaarte, The Unspectacular Negro: Searching for The Oasis Promised

EMERGING ARTIST:
$1500 SCHOLARSHIP + Sony Alpha 7C with 28-60mm lens

This scholarship is open to all genres of photographic work and will be given to an individual to create or continue work on a specific dynamic project.

Sponsored by Sony

New Prize + $150 B&H gift card

PHOTO MADE:
$1000 EMERGING SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship will be given to an individual to create or continue a project focused on creating a story through a conceptual Fine Art approach.

New Prize + $150 B&H gift card

PHOTO TAKEN:
$1000 EMERGING SCHOLARSHIP

This scholarship will be given to an individual to create or continue a project focused on telling an existing story through a documentary or photojournalism approach.

New Prize + $150 B&H gift card

WINNING RECIPIENT:

Tyler DeHaarte, The Unspectacular Negro: Searching for The Oasis Promised

HONORABLE MENTION:

Takako Kido, Skinship
Shubhadeep Mukherjee, Smells Like Home
Katarzyna Piechowicz, Romni

SHORTLIST:

Fabiola Cedillo, Human / The manufacture of children through technology
Alegria Diaz, Looking for what lies beyond the frontier of the skin
Lina Geoushy, Shame Less
Tajette O’Halloran, In Australia
Scott Rossi, Common Place
Allan Salas M, The Rooted Heart Began to Change
Chung-Wai Wong, So Long Hong Kong, So Long

WINNING RECIPIENT:

Daniela Rivera Antara, Silence of Dawn

HONORABLE MENTION:

Lilia Luganskaia, Cosmodrome
Marisol Mendez, MADRE
Izabella Provan, Bending Galaxies Back

SHORTLIST:

Kat Bawden, Perceptual Isolation
Anastasia Dumitrescu, Dwelled- A geography of nowhere
Thomas Gauthier, Journée Ordinaire
Karla Guerrero, Las flores mueren (The flowers die)
Miraj Patel, Home
Rachelle Steele, Framed in California
André Ramos-Woodard, a mediocre-ass nigga

WINNING RECIPIENT:

Pang Hai, The Garden’s crossroads

HONORABLE MENTION:

Dan Agostini, Palomas
Laila Stevens, A House is Not A Home
Doro Zinn, Future Kids

SHORTLIST:

Jamil G Baldwin, Fieldnotes on How Roots Flourish Without Soil
Joel Guzmán, País adentro
Vijay S. Jodha, The First Witnesses
Emil Lombardo, The spectrum of love
Javier Clemente Martínez, Sumaj Orck’o
Mattia Marzorati, The land of holes
Fahim Ahamed Riyad, Fire & Dreams

HOW TO APPLY

WHO CAN APPLY:

The Lucie Emerging Scholarships are open to emerging photographers 18 years and older, worldwide.  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.
The Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship Scholarship is open to both emerging and established photographers.

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. This proposal should include the following:
    • Project Start and End Dates
    • 250 Word 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

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.