The 2014 season for grants and awards for photographers is underway, and the roster of programs is long. Following is a capsule version, with links to organization websites. The information below, arranged by submission deadline date, is provided by grants organizations. Note to photographers and educators: If you see that I have overlooked an important program, please contact me. A revised version of this list will be posted on DART's Facebook page. If you circulate this post, please invite your colleagues and friends to subscribe to DART.

Center: Choice Awards/Project Development Awards

The Choice Awards recognize outstanding photographers working in all processes and subject matter. The Awards are divided into three categories: Curator’s Choice, Editor's Choice, and Gallerist's Choice. The winners receive recognition via exhibition, publication, portfolio reviews and more. The Project Development Award offers an annual $5,000 grant for fine-art or documentary works-in-progress. Submissions must be received by March 12, 2014. Information. Submissions for the biannual $10,000 Santa Fe Prize and the annual $3,000 Teaching Award are closed.

JGS Quarterly Photography Contest

Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS) established in 2009 an ongoing international quarterly contest that encourages artists to share their unique perspective. Quarterly winners will receive $1,000 and their work will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Forward Thinking Museum. Annual winners will receive the JGS Artist Award in the amount of $5,000 and their work will be featured in a solo exhibition at the FTM. Submissions are due by March 31, 2014. Information.

Above: Vivek Singh, from Ethnic Unrest, Western Assam—the Aftermath, winner of the 2013 Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation award for documentary photography. Vivek Singh is based in Delhi.

The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film

The Rivera-Ortiz Foundation offers a $5,000 grant to photographers focusing on lives and populations ravaged by war, famine, poverty, religious persecution, political oppression, forced migration, and other social injustices. The grant will be utilized for the production or completion of a social documentary project. Submissions are open from November 1, 2013-March 31, 2014. Information.

Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year

This competition is an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography and film. Submissions are due by March 31, 2014. Information.

Light Work Grants

Light Work began offering grants in 1975 to encourage the production of new photographic work in central New York State. Three $2,000 grants will be awarded to photographers who reside within an approximate 50-mile radius of Syracuse, N.Y. The recipients of these grants are invited to display their work in a special exhibition at Light Work, and their work will also be reproduced in Light Work’s award-winning publication, Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual. Submissions are due by April 1, 2014. Information.

The Photocrati Fund

The Photocrati Fund awards a $5,000 grant to one photographer each year to undertake an environmental or humanitarian photography project. At the completion of the project, the grant winner’s images will be displayed as a photo essay on Photocrati.com. Submissions are due by April 30, 2014. Information.

Inge Morath Award

The annual Inge Morath Award is given to a woman photographer under thirty years of age, to assist in the completion of a long-term documentary project. Thewinner and finalists are selected by the photographer members of Magnum Photos and a representative of the Morath Foundation at the Magnum annual meeting. Applications accepted February 5-April 30, 2014. Information.

Above: From Here, Anywhere. Photograph by Tamas Dezso, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize winner. Tamas Dezso lives in Budapest.

Daylight Photo Awards

Win $1000 and an exhibition at the Daylight Project Space. An international jury will consider still images made from all photographic processes, both traditional and digital. You should demonstrate the ability to build a strong series of images and a cohesive body of work. Submissions accepted from March 1–May 1, 2014.Information.

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

The Center for Documentary Studies is proud to announce the second year of the re-launched Lange-Taylor Prize, which supports documentary artists—working alone or in teams—who are involved in extended, ongoing fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit, in intriguing and effective ways, the interplay of words and images in the creation and presentation of their work. The winner will receive $10,000, a solo exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, and inclusion in the Archive of Documentary Arts at Rubenstein Library, Duke University. Submissions are due by May 7, 2014. Information

Getty Images Creative Grants

Nonprofits need striking imagery and video to effectively tell their stories. Beyond that, in order to stand out from the documentary style traditionally associated with the nonprofit sector, they need innovative and creative visionaries at their side to produce campaigns that elevate awareness for their cause. This is why the Getty Images Creative Grants provide two grants of $15,000 annually, to cover photographer (or filmmaker) and agency costs as they work together to create compelling new imagery for the nonprofit of their choice. Applications are accepted April 1–May 15, 2014. Information.

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

Since its launch in 2004, the Grants for Editorial Photography celebrate and support independent photojournalism, evidenced by the many dynamic and compelling projects completed over the years. You can view the works of previous grant winners here. That is why we continue to offer the Grants for Editorial Photography, which provides five total grants of $10,000 each to photojournalists pursuing projects of personal and journalistic significance. Inspired by our partnership with Lean In, an additional $10,000 grant will be awarded to a photographer whose project is focused on an important but under-told news story about women, girls and their families and communities. Applications are accepted April 1–May 15, 2014. Information.

Getty Images Emerging Talent Award

To complement Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography program, we offer an opportunity for young photographers to receive mentoring and support through our Emerging Talent Award. Applicants must be under the age of 30 at the time of submission and not associated with any agency. Photographers who have been widely published and/or earned numerous high-profile industry awards may be deemed already established and therefore ineligible. Applications are acceptedApril 1–May 15, 2014. Information.

The Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize

This prize will be a grant of $10,000, awarded to one photographer, with less than five years experience in the field, based on their existing portraiture work. Applicants must submit 10-20 images from their portrait work (either individual images or a series) along with a biography, brief explanation of their approach to portraiture, and description of what they would like to accomplish in their careers, (each in 1,000 words or less). Applications are accepted April 1–May 15, 2014. Information.

LUCEO Student Project Award

Central to LUCEO’s mission is their belief in the importance of long-term projects. They also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the LUCEO Student Project Award, which will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work. Submissions are due by May 15, 2014. Information. 

Above: Michelle Frankfurter, Oaxaca, 2010 (detail), from Destinos, winner of a 2013 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation. Michelle Frankfurter lives in Tacoma Park, MD.

The Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship

The Aaron Siskind Foundation is offering a limited number of Individual Photographer's Fellowship grants of up to $10,000 each, for artists working in photography and photo-based art. Recipients will be determined by a panel of distinguished guest judges on the basis of artistic excellence, accomplishment to date, and the promise of future achievement in the medium in its widest sense. The Foundation seeks to support artists/photographers who demonstrate a serious commitment to the field, who are professionally active or employed in the field. Applications are accepted March 1-May 23, 2014. Information,

W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography

Established in 1979 in honor of W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), the legendary American photo essayist, the Smith grant is given to a photographer who demonstrates an exemplary commitment to documenting the human condition in the spirit of Smith’s humanistic photography. Administered by the W. Eugene Smith Fund for Humanistic Photography, an independent non-profit organization, the $30,000 annual grant provides photographers with the financial freedom to continue or complete a major photographic project. The grant has often been referred to as the most prestigious honor in the field of documentary photography. In addition, the Howard Chapnick Grant of $5,000 and the W. Eugene Smith Discretionary Fellowship of $5,000 are open for applications. Submissions are due by May 31, 2014

EnFoco

EnFoco‘s New Works Photography Fellowship Awards is an annual program selecting several U.S. based photographers of Latino, African or Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and Pacific, through a free, national call for entries. Submissions are due July 7, 2014. Information.

Blue Earth Alliance Photographic Project Sponsorship

Blue Earth sponsors photographic projects whose goal is to educate the public about endangered cultures, threatened environments, or current topics of social concern. Submissions are due by July 20, 2014; a second application deadline is January 20. Information.

Open Society

The Open Society Fellowship was founded in 2008 to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world. Project themes should cut across at least two areas of interest to the Open Society Foundations. Among these are human rights, government transparency, access to information and to justice, and the promotion of civil society and social inclusion. Submissions are due byAugust 4, 2014. Information. Other programs and awards.

International Photography Awards

The International Photography Awards (IPA) Competition conducts an annual competition for professional, non-professional and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today. The IPA recognizes and awards photography's leading talents who are creating, shaping and changing the world of photography today. The Photographer of the Year Award: $10,000 cash prize, sponsored by AtEdgeThe Discovery of the Year Award: $5,000 cash prize.The Deeper Perspective of the Year Award: $5,000 cash prize, sponsored by American Society of Media Photographers.The \ Moving Image Photographer of the Year Award: $2,500 cash prize. Winners are presented with a Lucie Statue at the Lucie Awards, November 2, 2014 at the Carnegie Hall. Submissions are due by August 30, 2014. Information.

CDS/Honickman First Book Prize

Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and The Honickman Foundation (THF), based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize for American photographers. The only prize of its kind, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition is open to North American and Canadian photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities. Winners of the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography receive a grant of $3,000, publication of a book of photography, and inclusion in a website devoted to presenting the work of the prizewinners. The winner will also be given a solo exhibit at the Center for Documentary Studies. Submissions are open June 15-September 15, 2014. Information.

The Puffin Foundation has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations that are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy. Submissions are open September 1-December 6, 2014. Information.

Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship

The Alicia Patterson Foundation Program was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly 23 years before her death in 1963. One-year and six-month grants are awarded to working journalists and photographers to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for The APF Reporter, a web published magazine by the Foundation and available on the web.Submissions are open June 1- October 1 and must be postmarked [or marked by FedX] by October 1. Information. 

Jošt Franko, from Shepherds. Franko is a 2013 Daylight Photo Awards winner as well as an Ian Parry Scholarship winner. Jošt Franko is based in Slovenia.

Grants and Awards programs whose submissions are closed

The Aftermath Project holds a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. The application deadline is typically in November. Information.

The Alexia Grants

The Alexia Foundation offers production grants to students and professional photographers to give them the financial ability to produce substantial stories that drive change in the effort to make the world a better place. Students also get scholarship opportunities. The application deadline for the 2014 professional grant was Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 at 5 p.m. Eastern US Time. The deadline for the student grants was Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at 2 p.m. Eastern time.Winners of the Professional Grant and the Student grant will be announced on March 1, 2014. Information.

The Photographer’s Fellowship Fund

Since 1980, the Center for Photography at Woodstock has provided regional* photographers with significant recognition and support through the Photographers’ Fellowship Fund award. As of 2009, one $2,500 grant is awarded annually to a regional artist working in photography and related media. There is no fee to enter, and if selected the award may be utilized in any way they wish to advance their creative career. Submissions are typically open from Spring to Fall. Information

Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association will award a grant to a photographer to produce a story that must be told which is not supported from within the media. Information.

The Henri Cartier-Bresson International Award

Presented by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, the HCB Award is a prize to stimulate a photographer’s creativity by offering the opportunity to carry out a project that would otherwise be difficult to achieve. It is intended for a photographer who have already completed a significant body of work, a talented photographer in the emerging phase of his or her career, with an approach close to that of documentary. The prize is of €35,000 and is awarded every other year. Applicants must be nominated by an institution. The last deadline was April 15, 2013. Information.

Fondation Carmignc Award

The Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award is to grant €50,000 in funding for a photo-reportage carried out over a period of several months on a specific, topical subject. With the profession in the grips of an unprecedented financing crisis, and the risks taken by freelance photographers the subject of much debate, theCarmignac Gestion Foundation wished to sponsor the delving work of photojournalists. Their dedication to depicting the truth requires knowledge of the country and experience of the terrain in order to represent the situation in all its complexity. The 2014 submission deadline was September 30th 2013.

Exposure: The Oxfam Photography Prize for Women, with IdeasTap

This opportunity will provide three young female photographers with a unique insight into the workings of an international NGO, and provide a connection to industry relationships. Winners will develop confidence and experience in relation to professional standards and practice, as well as producing a meaningful body of work that will raise awareness of global issues. They will also receive £1,000 each on completion of the assignment, once the photographs have been delivered to Oxfam. Applicants must be members of IdeasTap. The deadline for 2013 submissions was September 9, 2013. Information.

Focus for Humanity

This program aims to provide financial support, resources and training for professional and amateur photographers who capture these stories of our shared humanity and to help fund their work with NGOs. The Focus on Humanity Grant provides $5,000 to produce work for an NGO. The 2014 submission deadline was Feb. 26, 2014. Information.

The Magenta Foundation Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers Competition

The 2014 CFE has not been opened. Information here is from 2013. Open to all photographers working in Canada, the UK and the US.Applicants must be 34 years-of-age or under as of December 31, 2012. One cash prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the 2013 Bright Spark, an emerging photographer whose submitted body of work is identified by the jury as being extraordinarily accomplished. As in the past, all 2013 Flash Forward Winners and Honourable Mentions will have their work published in the catalogue that chronicles the annual juried competition. The Flash Forward group show, made up of a selection of photographs from the accompanying annual catalogue, will travel to places to be announced. The 2013 submission deadline was Monday, Dec 31, 2012. Information.

PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards

The PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards identify outstanding work done by photographers in collaboration with nonprofit organizations worldwide, with prizes ranging from $2,000-$15,000. The 2013 submissions period was October 1-November 15, 2013. Information.

Above: Ashley Walters, Court, 2011, from Dark City. Walters, a 2013 Tierney Fellow, lives in  Cape Town, South Africa.

Tierney Fellowship

The Tierney Fellowship [a biannual award] was created in 2003 by The Tierney Family Foundation to support emerging artists in the field of photography. The aim of the Fellowship is twofold: encouraging recipients to produce a new body of work and creating a global community of artists that will function as a crucial support network in an increasingly competitive field. The Fellowship supports the recipients both financially, by way of a cash grant, and technically, with mentorship and guidance from seasoned experts.  At the end of the one-year grant period, recipients are expected to present a new body of work. Submissions are currently closed. Information.

The Ian Parry Scholarship

Each year we hold an international photographic competition for young photographers who are either attending a full-time photographic course or are under 24. Entrants must submit a portfolio and a brief synopsis of a project they would undertake if they won the scholarship. The prize consists of £3,500 towards their chosen assignment £500 to those awarded Highly Commended and Commended. There is no fee for entry. The 2013 Ian Parry Scholarship deadline was August 10th 2013 Information

Revolving Programs

The Open Society Foundation awards grants, scholarships, and fellowships throughout the year, such as the Audience Engagement Grant, the Production Grants to Individuals, the Moving Walls, and the OPENPhoto awards for photographers based in Africa. Information.

The Pulitzer Center provides travel grants to journalists for international reporting projects that focus on under-reported systemic crises, produced for distribution in US news media outlets. Information.

The Royal Photographic Society offers a number of grants and student/photographer bursaries for projects. Information.

The Tim Heatherington Grant

The Tim Hetherington Grant of €20,000 is a joint initiative of Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo, and was created in honor of the photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington killed in Misrata, Libya, in April 2011. The application process is open to all professional photographers who have participated in a World Press Photo competition between 2008 and 2013.

While not an awards program per se, this just in from the Magnum Foundation is sure to interest documentary photographers looking to enlarge their toolboxes. The labs are free so the competition should be fierce.

The Magnum Foundation, the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project, and New Arts Axis will offer a series of labs for documentary photographers seeking to expand their storytelling beyond the still image. Information.