Submission: Documentary Photography Project: Moving Walls

Deadline- February 26, 2013

Open Society Foundations is pleased to invites photographers to submit Documentary Photography Project on Moving Walls 21 in New York. This documentary photography will focus on human rights and social issues that coincide with the Open Society Foundations’ mission.

Benefit of the program is to gain exposure for their projects, as well as the social justice or human rights issues they address. In addition to a $2,500 honorarium, photographers receive their professionally produced exhibitions at the end of the exhibition tour in New York and Washington, D.C.

Areas of Interest

Each Moving Walls exhibit highlights issues or geographic regions where the Open Society Foundations are active. Priority is given to work whose subject has not been recently addressed in Moving Walls, and special consideration is given to long-term work documenting an issue or community. Work in progress may be submitted as long as a substantial portion has been completed. focus areas will be-

• Justice

1. Detention of immigrants
2. Mass incarceration in the United States
3. Truth and Reconciliation
4. Public health
5. Public health issues in Africa, including access to essential medicines, access to health care, palliative care, drug users, and sex workers
6. Physical and mental disabilities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, or Africa focusing on integration or inclusion

• Migration

1. Migration in Europe, especially Greece and Italy

• Political Turmoil and Change

1. Burma
2. Greece (especially dealing with the economic crisis)
3. Political violence, especially in Latin America and Africa
4. Political unrest in Nigeria
5. Democratic process in the Middle East
6. Creation of South Sudan

• Economic and Racial Justice

1. Images that reframe mainstream media representations of African American men and boys
2. Economic equity, food security, and climate change in Africa

• Youth

1. Early education (especially the importance of a child’s first 1,000 days)

Eligibility & Criteria-

• Any emerging or veteran photographer who is working long-term to document a human rights or social justice issue may apply for Moving Walls.
• Photographers working in their home countries, women, emerging artists, and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
• The Open Society Foundations does not discriminate based on any status that may be protected by applicable law.

Benefits-

A $2,000 royalty payment will be paid to photographers for exhibiting their work in New York and Washington, DC, and, if selected, an additional $500 to display it in London; plus production costs based on approved budget.

How to apply?

• Photographers must apply online through website
• Applicant will be asked to complete or upload the following-

1. project summary (50 words maximum)
2. project statement(600 words maximum) describing the project applicant would like to exhibit
3. short narrative bio (250 words maximum) summarizing applicant’s previous work and experience
4. summary of applicant’s engagement with the story or issue (600 words maximum). Please respond to the following questions-

1. What is your relationship with the issue or community you photographed?
2. How and why did you begin the project?
3. How long have you been working on the project?
4. Are there particular methods you use while working?
5. What do you hope a viewer will take away from your project?

• applicant’s curriculum vitae
• 15-20 jpg images [up to 5mb per image], with corresponding captions

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