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OCEAN STORYTELLING PHOTOGRAPHY GRANT

PREFACE
Stories spark the imagination and nurture ideas. They are, without mistrustfulness, our most important form of communicating and connecting, both with each other and with the world around us.
At the Save Our Swell Foundation (SOSF), we’ve a strong history of supporting marine conservation and education systems and believe that to truly restate knowledge into effective, meaningful change we must communicate through engaging stories. An inspiring or compelling story can goad positive action in ways that no donation of data can.
We’re pleased to introduce our new arising Ocean Storyteller Grant, which will concentrate on photography in its initial time. The photography entitlement is led by our own director of liar and National Geographic photographer Thomas Peschak, in collaboration with Kathy Moran and Jennifer Samuel from National Geographic.

This entitlement builds on the heritage of our former Marine Conservation Photography Grant and is devoted to finding and supporting a new and different generation of conservation fibbers. While we’re looking specifically for shutterbugs who can tell conservation stories about our abysses, the call isn’t limited to aquatic photography. Aspirants should suppose astronomically – story motifs can range from the creatures themselves to fisheries or the communities whose lives are intertwined with marine life. Four successful succeeders will each admit a completely funded assignment to shoot a conservation print story on position ( including day rate and trip), under the direct mentorship of the Ocean Storytelling Grant platoon.
We’re particularly seeking to support early career and arising fibbers and aim to encourage new voices with new perspectives. Aspirants should thus have no further than five times of professional experience in any photography- related discipline. Also, we feel it’s veritably important for the entitlement to be as different and representative as possible. Further than two-thirds of our former print entitlement aspirants were manly and nearly 80 came from North America and Europe. In an trouble to laboriously remedy this geographical and gender imbalance that’s pervasive throughout the assiduity, we especially encourage women and aspirants from South and Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, as well as underrepresented communities, to apply for this occasion.

Operations will be accepted both directly via open call and through nomination.
We hope to encourage aspirants from all backgrounds the world over as we search for instigative new voices in the field of conservation liar.

PRIZES
-Four winners will be named for each entitlement.
-Each winner will admit aUS$ cash prize and will be given a paid three-week photographic assignment to document an SOSF- supported marine exploration or conservation design. The SOSF has funded further than 400 systems in further than 85 countries and the winning shutterbugs will be assigned to tell one of these stories.

-ThomasP. Peschak, National Geographic Magazine photographer and director of conservation for the Save Our Swell Foundation, Kathy Moran, elderly editor ( natural history) of National Geographic Magazine and Jennifer Samuel, print editor at National Geographic, will tutor shutterbugs throughout the process.
-All winners will be given the chance to showcase their work at an transnational conference or an exhibition.
Each winner’s story will also be published as a print essay for Save Our Swell Foundation.

OPERATION PROCESS
-The Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant operation process consists of a one- stage online operation.

-The form consists of a many questions and requires the submission of a portfolio (20 images) and print story (10 images).

-Only one operation will be accepted from any one aspirant.

-Still, they can not apply for a new entitlement, If an aspirant has any other current SOSF entitlement.

-All operations will be reviewed by the Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant judging panel and bear final blessing from the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

-Still, the SOSF Grant agreement between the Foundation and the aspirant must be transferred back by the deadline, If successful. This agreement can not be modified.

IMPORTANT DATES
-Registration open 6 September 2021
-Registration close 30 November 2021, 1800 CET.

-Winners blazoned In the first quarter of 2022

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