Grants For Photographers and Visual Artists
Funding to support your photography career or pursuits.
Are you a photographer or visual storyteller?
We’ve created a playlist of funding opportunities specifically for you!
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To support our work and access this list of (10) grants for photographers, join Grants For Creators as a paid subscriber for either $10 per month or $100 per year.
Our other (8) grant playlists include:
We will continue to update this playlist (and all our others) with new funding opportunities, so please bookmark this page and circle back often. Good luck!
1. GFX Challenge Grant - For Photographers & Video Creators
Sponsored by FUJIFILM, this grant program helps aspiring creatives bring their imaging projects to life. Develop your skills using FUJIFILM GFX System gear while creating content on topics that have significant meaning to you. Proposed projects may be submitted as still photography or in a movie format. Submit your proposal for a chance to receive a $10,000 Global Grant Award.
This is your opportunity to think big! Let them know what you've always wanted to create and help them see your creativity.
Deadline: August 30, 2025
2. The Aaron Siskind Award for Outstanding Photographic Practice
The goal of this award is to provide material support that enables photographers to complete a meaningful body of work — whether the continuation or finalization of a photographic series, the development of an exhibition, monograph, or book project, or another major creative endeavor. It is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who make photography their primary vocation.
The award is designed to support early- to mid-career artists as well as established photographers who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to their practice and who may not yet have received significant critical recognition. Two artists will each receive an unrestricted prize of $25,000 in support of their ongoing creative work.
Deadline: September 1, 2025
3. IFPA Grant Award - For Photojournalists
This grant award aims to acknowledge and support the tireless efforts of independent and freelance photojournalists who strive to capture images that shed light on global news stories and raise awareness about impactful issues worldwide. Xposure is proud to offer a first-place cash prize of $15,000 to assist and empower the winning photojournalist in their ongoing mission to bring crucial stories to the forefront.
Deadline: September 1, 2025
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