The Alexia Foundation offers a Student Alexia Grant to enable current college student photographers to produce substantial bodies of work that share the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. Work that helps bring about change is more valued. Grants are administered by the Foundation and the endowed Alexia Chair at The Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
The Grant was established to help promote world peace and cultural understanding. The strength of your written proposal will be judged equally to your image-making 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 images 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. (It is rare that a grant recipient has not already started work on the project that she or he is proposing.)
Student Grant applications will be judged in two rounds. First, members of the Alexia Board and its Advisory Council will review submissions and forward the top tier of entries to a panel of judges who will read and rank the story proposals for all those portfolios brought forward. The second and final round of judging takes place at Syracuse University and is by a three-member panel. Winning recipients are chosen based on the judging panel’s determination of the combination of the strongest proposal and photographs.
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