Programs
Lucie Foundation Programs
The Lucie Foundation offers a variety of programs to support our three-tiered mission:
- Honor master photographers
- Discover & cultivate emerging talent
- Promote the appreciation of Photography worldwide
The Lucie Awards
The Lucie Awards is the annual gala ceremony honoring the greatest achievements in photography. The photography community from countries around the globe will pay tribute to the most outstanding photography achievements presented at the Gala Awards ceremony. Each year, the Advisory Board nominates deserving individuals across a variety of categories who will be honored during the Lucie Awards ceremony.
Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize
The Lucie Foundation is dedicated to celebrating all forms of photography. This program is a juried competition open to a diversity of book submissions- from traditionally published to hand-made books and zines. The awards are presented to photographers and publishers.
The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer two cash prizes to the top three finalists for their outstanding work – one Book of the Year $3,000 cash prize, one First Book $2,000 cash prize, and one Self-Published $2,000 cash prize.
The Lucie Technical Awards
The Lucie Technical Awards aim to honor the large and small companies, as well as the individuals who have advanced the photographic industry in a given year. All-inclusive, these awards intend to encompass such things as cameras, lenses, lighting, and accessories, to papers, printers, inks, and software and more. The Lucie Technical Awards is the newest initiative of the prestigious Lucie Awards.
Lucie Foundation Scholarship Program
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 pleased to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to support the work of emerging and established photographers.
The Story Behind the Image
The Lucie Foundation’s mission is to promote the appreciation and understanding of photography. In that vein, we are proud to share the courageous stories behind the thought-provoking images in our world. We will be hosting a series of intimate evenings called “The Story Behind the Image”.
Open Call
The Lucie Foundation’s Open Call is an ongoing program support emerging and established photographers. Anyone can apply worldwide and all mediums of photography are acceptable. Each Open Call is themed differently and offers different opportunities.
Lucie Limited Editions
The Lucie Limited Editions are limited edition posters made by master photographers recognized at The Lucie Awards. These Lucie Honorees represent some of the most important photographers of the 21st century.
Lucie Talks
The Lucie Foundation hosts intimate conversations, online and live. These talks promote the appreciation of photography and further the understanding that images can impact social change and our world.