The W. Eugene Smith Grant is designed to encourage and support visual storytellers whose photographic work renews the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s dedicated compassion as evidenced during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. Special consideration will be given to work that promotes social change, that embraces new technologies and image distribution, and that seeks to integrate the tradition of photography and social change with contemporary practice. The judges will be looking for a photographer and project that seem most likely to use exemplary and compelling photojournalism and documentary photography (possibly supplemented by or incorporating multi-media) to address an issue of import and impact related to the human condition: social change, humanitarian concern, armed conflict, or other topics of interpersonal, psychological, cultural, social, environmental, scientific, medical and/or political significance, ideally expressing an underlying acknowledgement of our common humanity.
  
  

You can request a fee waiver until September 24, 2024.

**For 2024, the amount of the W. Eugene Smith Grant is $30,000\. An additional $10,000 Fellowship grant will be awarded and $7,500 will be given to a Finalist.**

  
Applicant also understands and agrees that if applicant is the recipient of the Grant, $24,000 will be paid upon receipt of the Grant, and $6000 will be paid upon receipt of twelve (12) digital images and twelve (12) prints within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the Grant. The Fellowship Grant will pay $8,000 upon receipt of the grant and $2,000 will be paid upon receipt of twelve (12) digital images within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the Grant. The Finalist Grant will pay $6,000 upon receipt of the grant and $1,500 will be paid upon receipt of twelve (12) digital images within eighteen (18) months after receipt of the Grant. Recipients must submit a final report detailing how the grant was used and how the money contributed to the success of the project.

  
**The images shall become part of the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection at the International Center of Photography in New York.** Applicant also agrees that as part of the unrestricted gift, the Smith Fund may exhibit the images and use them on a non-exclusive licensing

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