Emerging Photographer Fund
$15,000 overall awarded to emerging photographers through the Magnum Foundation.
The grant is designed to support continuation of photographer's personal project. The body of work may be:
- Journalistic
- Personal/artistic
The primary intent is to support emerging photographers who will become the icons of tomorrow.
Previous winners/finalists:
Alejandro Chaskielberg
The High Tide
http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2009/05/alejandro-chaskielberg-the-high-tide-epf-finalist/
This series created fictional scenarios with real people and situations. Here he explores the limits of documentary photography, using technical processes to transform natural perception of light/colours/spaces. He uses long exposures on moonlit nights, with an unknown source of flood light - the combination creates some unknown timelessness - the image looks dreamlike, blurs due to long exposure mixed with a strangely lit scene.
The photographers overall intention is to work in the border between reality and fiction.
The series is semi-documentary and semi-conceptual - rules are made to be broken.
Many of the winners/finalists work is documentary based - creating series/photo essays - even if conceptual also. My goal is slightly more concentrated to be based upon the lives of people, therefore I will unlikely apply for this competition.
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