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Call for Applications:
World Press Photo Foundation Masterclass West Africa


Program(s) Offered: Photography
Program Level: Contest
Provider: World Press Photo Foundation
Country to Work in: Accra, Ghana

Scholarship Description
The World Press Photo Foundation invites applications from documentary photographers inwards West Africa for the World Press Photo Masterclass West Africa.

The Masterclass West Africa volition convey together a alternative of the most promising professional person photographers from the part who desire to railroad train their career. Thus, it volition back upward the most promising immature visual journalists inwards their professional person development.

All photographers who stimulate got worked on visual stories almost daily life, nature, politics as well as gild are encouraged to use for the Masterclass West Africa. The masters, who volition live on chosen to run into the learning needs as well as wishes of the selected participants, volition portion their expertise as well as render private advice to all participants.

 World Press Photo Foundation Masterclass West Africa Info For You World Press Photo Masterclass for West Africa (Full Scholarship Program - 2017)
West Africa
Eligibility
Professional photographers alongside sense working on documentary photograph stories who:
  • Are nationals or permanent residents of the countries listed below (under Eligible Groups);
  • Are nether the historic menses of 35; and
  • Have a goodness agreement of English.
Selection Process:
An international, professional person as well as independent commission volition guide a maximum of 12 participants based on the lineament of operate as well as motivation for participation. To ensure fairness, the alternative volition stimulate got house anonymously.

Eligible groups
Citizens of the next West African countries:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, as well as Togo

Participating Institutions
All promising professional person photographers as well as visual journalists inwards the West African region; AND
The World Press Photo Foundation (-- a major strength inwards developing as well as promoting visual journalism)

Fields of study
The masterclass curriculum is structured some thematic photograph essays that participants are required to operate on inwards advance of the masterclass. The masterclass calendar week besides includes lectures by, as well as private instruction with, all masters.

Number of awards
H5N1 maximum of 12 participants volition live on selected

Sponsorship duration
The Masterclass West Africa volition stimulate got house inwards Accra, Ghana, from 8 to 12 March 2017

Contest benefits
Participation inwards Masterclass West Africa is gratuitous for those selected, as well as all locomote as well as lodging expenses volition live on covered past times the World Press Photo Foundation.

Method of Application
To apply, delight transportation your portfolio, biography alongside historic menses as well as nationality, amount contact details, every bit good every bit a curt disceptation of your motivation inwards English linguistic communication describing what the masterclass mightiness hateful to your professional person development. Submit all this data to education@worldpressphoto.org earlier xv Jan 2017.

Large files (25MB<) tin live on sent via WeTransfer. If you lot produce non already stimulate got a portfolio, delight laid upward a alternative of your operate that includes at to the lowest degree 2 photograph stories/series. You volition have a confirmation e-mail in i lawsuit your application has been checked for completion.

An international, professional person as well as independent commission volition thereafter guide participants based on factors listed nether 'Selection Process' above.

DEADLINES:
The deadline to submit your application is 15 Jan 2017.

PLEASE NOTE:
The Masterclass West Africa is the 3rd inwards the World Press Photo Foundation’s serial of satellite masterclasses, afterward previous editions inwards United Mexican United States as well as Kenya, as well as is based on the formula of the annual Joop Swart Masterclass, which is run annually for the world’s most talented emerging visual journalists.

From the annual Joop Swart Masterclass to local workshops, from grants to speaking events, the World Press Photo Foundation aims to educate, enable, as well as connect visual storytellers.

Founded inwards 1955, the World Press Photo Foundation is an independent, non-profit arrangement based inwards Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The foundation receives back upward from the Dutch Postcode Lottery as well as is sponsored worldwide past times Canon. There are besides a hit of collaborations alongside the World Press Photo Associates, the Friends of World Press Photo, as well as other partners.

Application Deadline: xv Jan 2017
Open to International Applicants:

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