Deadline: 16 November 2015
The Lucas Dolega Association is inviting freelance professional photographers for The Lucas Dolega Award 2016 to support and accompany photographers with important stories elaborated under risky conditions in order to ensure communication of free and independent information to the public.
The Award aims at rewarding a photographer who, through his or her personal commitment, involvement in the field, as well as the quality of his or her work, will have been able to testify to his or her attachment to the freedom of information.
Participants will have to present a report on the coverage of any event relevant to the defense of freedom and democratic ideal, a conflict (civil or military wars, riots, attacks or public demonstrations…), a revolution, a natural or sanitary disaster, or their consequences on civil populations. The award ceremony will take place at the Mairie de Paris, in january 2016.
Benefits
The winner will receive an endowment by Olympus of 10,000 Euros and will have his or her work displayed at an exhibition in Paris and published in Reporter without Borders album.
Eligibility Criteria
- The competition is open exclusively to professional freelance photographers of all nationalities, without age restrictions.
- The term freelance is defined as a non-staff photographer, i.e. a photographer who does not work full time and exclusively for a press organization.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit Lucas Dolega Award.
