Judging Criteria

The Grant was established to help promote greater awareness of issues surrounding and impacting women. The strength of your proposal will be judged equally to your photographic skills. The Grant goes to those who clearly and concisely propose significant projects that share in the Foundation’s mission and who demonstrate the ability to accomplish their proposals by showing photographs of the highest caliber. Photographs you submit with your proposal may be about your proposal’s subject or of past work that is of a similar type.

We prefer proposals for stories that have not been published. We welcome proposals for projects already in progress.  And we will gladly consider proposals for stories that further expand and develop concepts that have been published already. 

 

A well-written statement of purpose proposal is required. This is not a portfolio competition. The grant will be awarded to a photojournalist who can write a concise, focused, and meaningful story proposal concerning women’s abuse and who can demonstrate the ability to visually execute that story with compelling images. There is no mathematical formula for determining grantees, but the proposal and photography must both be considered of the highest quality.

 

The Alexia Foundation expects to assist the photographer in creating a multimedia production of the finished work. This can be done with still pictures only, but we encourage proposals from photographers with multimedia experience. 

 

Applications will be judged in two rounds. First, members of the Alexia photojournalism advisory board, the Alexia Board and its executive advisors will review portfolios and move those demonstrating strongest visual storytelling skills to a second round. 

 

In the second round, judges first read and rank the story proposals for all those portfolios brought forward. If no judge thinks the proposal is worth considering, the portfolio will not be reviewed in the second round. A winner is chosen based on the judges' determination of the combination of the strongest proposal and photography.

Grant of Rights

All applicants understand, acknowledge and agree that should they be awarded a Grant, said Grant recipient retains the copyright to his/her photograph(s), and explicitly grants the Foundation, its licensees, affiliates and their designees an irrevocable, non-exclusive perpetual royalty-free license to use, copy, publish, distribute, screen and display such Grant-related photographs, photo stories, picture essays, multimedia or photo-documentary projects, in any and all manner, form/medium/media now known or hereafter created, and in any publication, advertising, marketing, venue or program sponsored or authorized by the Foundation for the advancement of its mission and goals, including but not limited to educational, promotional and fundraising purposes at the Foundation’s sole discretion, without additional permission or consideration, or notification to the Grant recipient or any third party.

The Alexia Chair at Syracuse University may also use entry materials as part of his educational responsibilities.

Each applicant warrants and represents that every photograph submitted with such applicant’s Grant entry is his/her own original work and that he/she has the unrestricted right to grant to the Foundation the license described above.

Alexia Grants will be awarded subject to these additional terms:

The license granted herein by the applicant to the Foundation for use of photographs submitted with the applicant’s Alexia Grant application shall be extended in all its terms to all works created by the applicant in the course of any project funded in any part by the applicant’s Alexia Grant.

Each applicant shall be deemed to have consented to the use of his/her name, portrait, and/or picture by the Foundation in promotional and public relations materials or for any other purpose related to the Alexia Grant program or the Foundation.

Each applicant shall agree to reasonable requests by the Foundation to present such applicant’s work and/or represent the Foundation at photography workshops, seminars and/or conventions, provided that any necessary expense associated with such presentations is paid by the Foundation.

Each applicant shall be responsible for determining his or her own tax liability arising from acceptance of the Alexia Grant, and for satisfaction of any such liability.

Application Procedure

Your application must include the items listed below – there is no form to fill out in advance. Once those are ready, click the submit button at right and follow instructions from there.

Written Elements

Submit these as either Word or PDF documents.

Synopsis: In not more than twenty-five (25) words, write a synopsis of your project.

Proposal: A written proposal of not more than 750 words to produce a body of work comprised of still or multimedia that will explore issues affecting women. You may propose projects that are already in progress. Any proposal over 750 words will be cut off at that word limit; judges will only see the first 750 words.

Do not put your name or other identifying information on your proposal. All applications will be judged anonymously. 

Only one application per person each year will be accepted.

Resume: A resume which shall include your phone numbers and address along with the names and phone numbers of three (3) references. Do not send any letters of recommendation.

If you are a staff photographer: Professional Grant applicants who are staff photographers must provide written permission from their employer granting them a leave of absence of approximately three (3) months over the course of a year to allow time to complete their project. It is not necessary for this time to be taken in a single block. While all other application elements will be submitted online, the letter of permission must be mailed to:

Mike Davis

The Alexia Competition

Professional Division

S.I. Newhouse School of Communications

215 University Place

Syracuse NY 13244-2100 

Photography

Submit a body of work consisting of no more than twenty (20) photographs. Each image must have a caption. The photos may but do not have to pertain to your proposed story. They should demonstrate your ability to accomplish your proposed project. All photographs not related to your story proposal must have been taken within the past two (2) years. There is no time limit on pictures that relate to your story proposal.

Image Preparation: Digital photo files must be formatted as medium-quality JPEG images at 2000 pixels at the longest dimension at 72 dpi. Each image must have a caption. Captions will be read from your inserted metadata, or you may submit captions during the entry process. Do not include your name in captions.??If you propose a multi-media project, please provide URLs for no more than two (2) of your multimedia presentations. These may relate to your proposal, or not.

 

Entry Rules

 

 

 

 

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