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Each year, Working Assumptions awards six $10,000 Project Grants to support visual storytelling projects that inspire audiences and/or participants to look at family in new, meaningful ways. They invite proposals that employ photography or photo-based art for journalistic, artistic, therapeutic, educational, and research purposes.
Opportunity Details
Their funding is unrestricted, allowing recipients complete creative freedom-provided that the project is intended for public consumption and that work on it began prior to the grant application deadline.
At Working Assumptions, they believe that visual storytelling can play a pivotal role in illuminating the complexities of family life today and fostering compassion for the experiences of others. As part of their mission, they support projects that employ photography and photo-based art to spur reflection and dialogue around caregiving, interdependence, and belonging.
Grant
They offer six Working Assumptions Project Grants per year. Each grant includes:
This opportunity is for individuals and/or collaborations (not organizations), including artists, journalists, educators, therapists, researchers, and creatives across disciplines with a focus on visual storytelling and family.
What They Fund
Projects must have been initiated prior to the application deadline, and may range from photography series and books to public art projects, therapeutic programs, long-form journalism, performances, and more. They leave it up to applicants to define the term family as they see fit, knowing that caregiving and interdependence take place in a variety of contexts. If it’s family to you, it’s family to them.
Note that they give preference to projects that:
Are based on first-person narration and/or on long-term, intertwined relationships with the photographic subjects
Build on earlier, related work by the applicant
Challenge our assumptions about what family, caregiving, and interdependence look like
Required information:
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